August 18, 2014
. "I'm somewhat obsessed with recording everything."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mates-stand-murder-accused-tostee-015527997.html
I know its an old link and its posted way back in the threads, but I came across it while looking for something else
bolded and edited by me..
Gabe's useless hobby and obsession is about to bite back, I believe....... .
It is significant that the Crown led the prosecution of Tostee with his own recording of his own efforts and part he played in the death of Miss Wright. There was no interpretation, no extrapolation of the recording. The entire recording. The Prosecutor didn't call an expert to translate any part of the recording or explain any part of it, or to have the tape separated out into bits of this and bits of that, it is entirely up to the jury, as it should be, to interpret this record of the evenings activities taking place between Ms Wright and Tostee.
We know, and the jury knows , that Warriena didn't know she was being recorded... the significance of this is, that Tostee knew he was being recorded, and there can be no doubt that he is playing to that strength , with self consciousness all the way thru it.
At the very end, he discloses that she is being recorded, but she is too far gone in terror and alcohol poisoning to register it. We can hear how he actually commentates as well as plays a major part , and he ad libs , too, because Tostee is playing the role for the recording, not for anything else, this is why he interjects with his fantasy segments , ' ow don't hurt me, ' .. ' I am the victim here'.. and so on, mimicking her terror in a parody of her situation.
I have a lot of trust in jurors, mostly. .. . I have to, really, just like anyone else has to, as there is no alternative. Gabe isn't being tried in NSW where he could choose to be heard by a judge alone, or in the ACT where that option is available, I don't think it is in QLD.. in front of a judge alone, Gabe might, just might have scraped thru, but 12 QLDers hearing that entire recording will not look upon Gabe with empathetic eyes.