Gold Coast high-rise death: Gable Tostee to be released on bail
Murder accused Gable Tostee has been granted bail on the condition he does not use popular dating app Tinder or any other social media forums to meet new women.
Tostee, 28, was charged with the murder of New Zealand tourist Warriena Wright, who fell to her death from the balcony of Tostee's 14th floor apartment at Surfers Paradise, on Queensland's Gold Coast, in August.
Supreme Court Justice Debra Mullins granted him bail on Wednesday, on the condition Tostee refrain from using social media forums to set up dates, including Tinder, where he met Ms Wright.
Tostee was released from the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Brisbane's south later in the day and will now live with his parents, who have put up a surety of $200,000.
He was also banned from drinking - on some nights out with friends he would consume two-thirds of a bottle of vodka, the court was told.
A psychiatrist had diagnosed Tostee with social anxiety disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, and said he guzzled spirits on nights out to cope with the awkwardness.
The level of alcohol consumption was so bad Tostee used to take audio recordings of nights out to help fill in the blanks, the court was told.
"In fact, he started recording his social outings around 2012 because he was suffering memory blackouts when he drank alcohol and could not recall what he had done when he had been out," Justice Mullins said.
"He has relied on alcohol to deal with his social anxiety as he felt at ease in talking to people when he drank alcohol socially."
