An audio recording of the night New Zealand woman Warriena Wright, 26, fatally fell from Gable Tostee's Gold Coast balcony has been played during Tostee's trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court.
A woman's voice screaming "no, no, no" can be heard on the recording, moments after a man could be heard instructing her to leave the apartment.
The 30-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Wright early on August 8, 2014, hours after they met via the dating app Tinder and went to his 14th-floor Surfers Paradise unit.
The Crown contends Tostee did not throw or push Ms Wright over the balcony, but forced her on to the balcony after an "intense altercation", "where she had no other means of escape other than to attempt to climb down".
Today is the second day of Tostee's trial, which is expected to run until next week.
Trial day 2
The court has today heard more audio from a recording made by Tostee in his apartment on the night of Ms Wright's death.
The jury heard how the pair, who met on Tinder, had been drinking in Tostee’s unit before an argument broke out.
“You're lucky I haven't chucked you off my balcony you goddamn psycho little bitch," Tostee allegedly said in the recording.
“I'm gonna walk you out of this apartment just the way you are, you're not going to collect any belongings.”
“If you try to pull anything I'll knock you out, I'll knock you the f*** out."
Ms Wright could then be heard hysterically screaming "No" over and over again.
“I want to go home, I want to go home," she said.
The court heard Tostee later left his unit and called his father to pick him up, saying he had ordered a pizza from Domino's.
“Dad, this is really f***ed up, why does this s*** keep happening to me," he allegedly said in the call.
"I swear to God I didn't push her, I just chucked her out on the balcony because she was beating me up.
“Oh my God, I hope she's not dead.”
The trial before Justice John Byrne is expected to run for six more days.
The jury will also see CCTV which allegedly shows the pair meeting up in Surfers Paradise and later, early the next morning, shows Tostee leaving his apartment.
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Trial day 1
After Tostee pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Wright, his downstairs neighbour told the court she saw legs dangling from his balcony, and the court heard part of an audio recording of Tostee and Ms Wright speaking before her death.
Crown prosecutor Glen Cash alleges Tostee did not throw Ms Wright to her death, but intimidated and threatened her so greatly she felt the only way to escape was to climb down from his locked balcony.
"He forced on to the balcony, locking her outside on the balcony, where she had no other means of escape other than to attempt to climb down the balcony on to other floors," Mr Cash said.
"In an attempt to escape what had occurred and what she must have anticipated would occur inside the apartment, she did attempt to climb down and in the course of doing so, fell."
Mr Cash said the pair had "drank alcohol and were intimate" before they had an altercation and Ms Wright was put on the balcony.
Tostee allegedly restrained her after she threw some decorative rocks at him, Mr Cash said.
Mr Cash also alleged Tostee could be heard saying in an audio recording: "You're lucky I haven't chucked you off my balcony you goddamn psycho little bitch".
Tostee's defence barrister Saul Holt said "we're allowed to use reasonable force to protect ourselves and our property".
"What happened in this case is nothing like murder or manslaughter, it doesn't fit," he said.
Mr Holt said Tostee had repeatedly asked Ms Wright to stop throwing rocks at him before "there was a restraint".
Part of an audio recording was played to the court, during which Tostee could allegedly be heard asking Ms Wright to "calm down".
"Don't go baby, please," Tostee is heard to be saying at one point.
"My f------ money," Ms Wright is later heard to be saying.
"Stop. Just calm down please," Tostee says.
"I'm not calming down---," Ms Wright says, at which point Tostee interjects and says "You've had too much to drink, alright".
"You're beating me up for no reason," he later says.
The court also heard from witnesses including Tostee's downstairs neighbour, Gabriele Collyer-Wiedner, and Ms Wright's sister, Marezza.
Ms Collyer-Wiedner told the court she woke about 2am to the sound of banging furniture in the unit above, and looked out on to her balcony to see two legs dangling from above.
"Legs came down and dangled in the air," she said.
"I froze there, then the body fell on my balcony railing.
"I screamed and somebody else screamed, I assumed it was her voice."
Marreza told the court she had received Facebook messages from her sister on the night before she died, including blurry photographs of her and a man on a Gold Coast balcony.
The court heard that after Ms Wright died, Tostee attempted to contact a lawyer and called his father.
"She kept beating me up and whatever," Tostee allegedly told his father in a phone call.
"I forced her out onto the balcony and I think she might have jumped off".
Ms Wright's mother travelled from New Zealand to attend the trial, and sobbed as Tostee pleaded not guilty to murder.