Gable Tostee wants to set the record straight

Just like Schapelle Corby and Cassie Sainsbury, a lot of Aussies have questions and interest in the case of Gable Tostee.

Despite being acquitted over the death of Warriena Wright at his apartment last year, many people to this day have a lot of questions about what happened.

In a bid to set the record straight, Tostee, who has changed his name to Eric Thomas, has been opening up to various media outlets.

The latest is a revealing interview with the Gold Coast Bulletin, in which he answers one of the biggest questions about the night Warriena Wright died – why did he lock her on the balcony and not kick her out the front door?

“Like I said, we don’t act with hindsight. You think, “Well, there is a door there that can separate the two of us”,” he told the Gold Coast Bulletin.

“You’re being attacked. You think you’re doing the most sensible thing and you think that will just defuse the situation.

“Something completely freakish, completely unexpected happens … It’s totally unforeseeable.”

Tostee said he didn’t think Warriena would have climbed off the balcony.

He told the Gold Coast Bulletin that when someone is attacking you and you want to get away from them, something like whether they would climb off the balcony doesn’t “come into the equation”.

“You think, “If I can just get the person away from me, figure out what to do next, call security or management or something to take her away properly”,” he said.

“I mean that’s more responsible than just shoving a drunk person out the front door to make a ruckus to the neighbours or possibly get herself in trouble or injured.

“There is nothing inherently unsafe about a balcony, unless you climb over it … It’s just … there is nowhere to go.”

Despite being found not guilty of Warriena’s death, there are still people who believe he is guilty.

As Tostee told the Gold Coast Bulletin, that’s inevitable.

“You can’t change everyone’s mind,” he said.

“You can’t change the way everyone thinks.

“Some people can’t be convinced. If you could reason with stupid people there wouldn’t be stupid people.”

In his wide-ranging interview, Tostee also hit out at the way he had been portrayed in the press and the justice system.

What do you think of what Gable Tostee has to say?