Gable Tostee was absent from a Gold Coast courtroom a day after being charged with murdering a New Zealand woman he met on dating app Tinder.
His family and friends were also nowhere to be seen as his matter was briefly mentioned in Southport Magistrates Court on a wet Saturday morning.
Tostee instead stayed in the nearby watch house.
Twenty hours had passed since he was arrested at his parents' Carrara home over the death of 26-year-old tourist Warriena Tagpuno Wright.
Shortly after lunch on Friday, he was formally charged with murder at Surfers Paradise police station before being taken to Southport in handcuffs.
Police allege Ms Wright fell from the 13th floor of Tostee's Surfers Paradise apartment, during the early hours of August 8, after meeting him on Tinder.
But his defence lawyer Michael Purcell said his 28-year-old client would fight the charge.
"My client maintains his innocence and we look forward to the provision of a brief of evidence so we can move on with the court process," he told reporters after the court matter.
"I've got instructions to make an application to the Supreme Court for bail in the weeks to come."
Tostee was unable to apply for bail but a brief of evidence is expected to be ready by the end of September.
Magistrate John Costanzo adjourned Tostee's matter until October 10 where he is expected to appear via videolink.
The courtroom heard the matter for the first time two days after Ms Wright's younger sister Marreza made a tearful plea for answers on what happened to her sibling from Lower Hutt, in Wellington.
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