Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright inside his 14th floor Surfers Paradise apartment just hours before the New Zealand tourist plummeted to her death. Picture: AAP/ Supplied by Queensland Supreme Court

Jury deliberations are entering a second day this morning, after jurors asked four questions of the trial judge late yesterday afternoon.

The jury retired to consider the verdict just after 12.30pm Brisbane time yesterday and continued deliberating for the rest of the day.

Shortly after 4pm, however, court reconvened with four questions from jurors.

The jury asked what the long metal object was that Tostee was carrying when he exited his apartment lift after Ms Wright plunged to her death from his 14th-floor Surfers Paradise apartment. This morning, the judge told them the object was irrelevant to their deliberations.

The jury also sought clarification on Tostee’s age and, most tellingly, whether Ms Wright’s state of mind at the time she fell was important. They asked if her intoxication was something they had to consider as to whether her decision to climb over the balcony balustrade was unreasonable and irrational.

Their final question was to seek clarification on what the terms “causation”, “unlawfulness” and “intent” meant.

The judge presiding over the trial delivered his final directions to jurors Monday morning, before sending them out to consider their verdict.

Addressing jurors on a range of arguments that arose at trial, Justice John Byrne urged them not to consider Tostee’s conduct after Wright fatally plunged from his balcony as any indicator of guilt.

CCTV footage shown to the jury in the trial last week showed Tostee leaving his apartment building by the basement carpark, so as to avoid emergency services who had raced to the scene, in the early hours of August 8, 2014.

CCTV footage of Gable Tostee on the night she fell from his Gold Coast apartment.Source:News Corp Australia

He was then also seen wandering aimlessly around Surfers Paradise for an hour and a half, stopping at one point to buy and eat pizza.

In his final address to the jury today, Justice Byrne said Tostee’s behaviour after Ms Wright died was irrelevant to their deliberations.

“It would be wrong for you to use any of the evidence of what he did as advancing the prosecution case for murder or manslaughter and I direct you not to,” he said.

Ms Wright plunged to her death from Tostee’s 14th floor Gold Coast apartment after Tostee locked her on his balcony.

She was attempting to climb to the balcony below when she fell.

Crown prosecutor Glen Cash argued the 26-year-old was fleeing in “abject terror” after Tostee strangled her inside his apartment. The alleged strangling happened after Ms Wright threw rocks at Tostee.

Gable Tostee leaves the Supreme Court in Brisbane. Picture: AAP Image/Dave HuntSource:AAP

Defence barrister Saul Holt argued Tostee put an “increasingly erratic” Ms Wright onto the balcony, in a bid to de-escalate a violent situation that had erupted between the pair.

Tostee has pleaded not guilty to both murder and the alternative lesser charge of manslaughter.

Justice Byrne addressed the six men and six women of the jury on a range of issues, including whether or not Tostee intended to cause Ms Wright grievous bodily harm, which caused her to undertake the act that led to he death.

“The burden rests with the prosecution to prove the guilt of the accused,” he said.

“If you are left with a reasonable doubt, your duty is to acquit.”

He also reminded jurors their task was an intellectual one, not an emotional one.

“You should dismiss all sympathy and prejudice, no such emotion has any place in your position,” he said.

“You must approach dispassionately.”