Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne had simply paid a taxi $550 to drive him to Sydney after a buck’s weekend when he determined to make a detour to fulfill up with a girl he had been chatting with on Instagram for 2 weeks, a courtroom has been informed.
As he approached the home on Newcastle’s western outskirts at 9.07pm on September 30, 2018, he’s stated to have positioned a half-drunk Vodka Cruiser bottle on the letterbox and approached the door.
While inside, he would sing an Ed Sheeran cowl of Oasis’ Wonderwall within the hope of “breaking the ice” with a then 26-year-old girl he hoped to have intercourse with in a “best-case scenario”, a courtroom has been informed.
But when he emerged 46 minutes later, it’s alleged he left the younger girl in her room with blood on her bedspread and painful accidents to her vagina.
More than 5 years after the fleeting encounter, Mr Hayne has confronted his third trial within the NSW District Court.
Over the previous 10 days, a jury of seven ladies and 7 males have heard proof put towards him.
The 35-year-old has walked into the John Madison Tower constructing in Sydney’s CBD daily along with his spouse Amelia Bonnici beside him, his mom, sisters and mates supporting from the entrance row of the general public gallery.
Mr Hayne has denied sexually assaulting the girl at her residence on the night time of the NRL grand last.
He claims he and the girl engaged in consensual sexual acts and has persistently maintained his innocence, pleading not responsible to 2 counts of sexual activity with out consent.
THE ‘STEAMY’ MESSAGES
The girl, who can’t be named for authorized causes, initiated the dialog with Mr Hayne on Instagram two weeks earlier than they met in particular person on the night time of the assault.
She wrote: “You are absolutely gorgeous.”
“Price it,” got here Mr Hayne’s reply.
Later, the girl despatched a forthcoming message: “I’m not going to lie … I imagined what it would be like to be f**king you when you started talking.”
She apologised earlier than Mr Hayne responded: “Very steamy.”
Crown prosecutor John Sfinas informed the jury it was clear the complainant discovered the previous footy star “sexually attractive”.
While communications between the pair have been sexual in nature, the Crown’s case is the girl by no means consented to sexual activity.
THE BUCK’S PARTY
Mr Hayne informed the courtroom in his prerecorded proof that on September 29, 2018, he jumped in a automotive and headed north on the M1 to Newcastle.
While within the automotive he made a number of posts to social media and even despatched some to the girl indicating he could be in Newcastle for the weekend.
Mr Hayne informed the girl he was planning to go away on Sunday night time and he or she tried to organise a time and place to fulfill.
He invited her to the buck’s occasion and steered she deliver a good friend, however the courtroom was informed after she noticed it was all males she declined.
FAIRYLAND
Mr Sfinas informed the courtroom in his closing tackle that the girl described herself as being in “fairyland” and contemplated whether or not “this could maybe one day turn into something”.
“I was embarrassed to say it but I didn’t know whether he’d be interested in me or whether he’d like me,” she stated, in accordance with Mr Sfinas.
“I feel like some of the things I said was because I wanted him to like me and I don’t know why I did that … I wanted him to respect me and like me as a person.
“I think I wanted it to turn into something more.”
The girl had texted him whereas he was out: “Your phone’s f**ked, I’m seeing you before you go tomorrow ok, morning coffee or breakfast, friends welcome, night.”
Just earlier than 8am on the Sunday, Mr Hayne and the girl exchanged a sequence of textual content messages, the place she requested if he wished to fulfill up.
He phoned the alleged sufferer sooner or later in the course of the afternoon throughout which they made plans for him to go to her at her home.
TEXTS WITH ANOTHER MAN
On the identical day she was texting Mr Hayne, the courtroom heard on Thursday from one other man the girl was messaging on the identical day.
The jury was informed the girl despatched him a message on Sunday, September 30, that stated “you have made me feel f**king terrible today bye” with a waving emoji.
When requested why he would obtain that message, the person stated: “I didn’t want to go see her.”
The jury was informed the girl then wrote: “Are you going to talk to me, otherwise I won’t … at least answer me and stop being a d**k.”
The jury was informed he then wrote to the girl: “You honestly lost me at Jarryd Hayne is your side boy.”
The girl continued to ask if the person could be coming over earlier than saying she felt “like a f**king idiot”.
She messaged once more: “K (sic) if you aren’t going to say yes then I’ll say yes to Jarryd Hayne.”
“Omg (sic) get me his signature babe xx,” the person responded earlier than saying: “I never said I was coming over.”
The girl stated she was feeling like an fool: “Are you coming over … I’m going to say yes to Jarryd … you don’t have to come here you’ll be ages … you’re being a jerk.
“You said maybe so i’m asking if you’re not, … I feel like a f**king idiot … are you coming over … k (sic) … if we aren’t going to keep talking I’m going to say yes to Jarryd,” extra messages learn.
The man informed the courtroom the girl stored texting from earlier than lunch proper by means of till about 8pm and he or she was being “aggressive”.
The jury was informed the girl despatched six extra messages, together with “what have I done now”, “you’re a jerk” and one which stated she was “upset”.
The courtroom was informed the person’s messages solely got here to mild when he was involved with Mr Hayne’s authorized crew throughout a earlier trial.
Mr Sfinas informed the jury “little comes” of the person’s proof as the girl was “forthright” about her intentions with Mr Hayne.
He stated the proof proved the girl was keen to say no to Mr Hayne.
A $550 TAXI FEE
The courtroom was informed Mr Hayne paid a taxi driver $550 to drive him again to his residence in Sydney, asking to cease on the girl’s home alongside the best way.
The jury was informed Mr Hayne concocted an excuse to cease by the girl’s home, telling driver Helen Morel he needed to choose up a bag.
He made his option to the girl’s home, sitting within the again seat of the taxi consuming a four-pack of Vodka Cruisers.
“I walked towards the house and I put (the half-empty bottle) on the letterbox,” Mr Hayne stated.
In his closing tackle, Mr Sfinas made a degree of the half-empty drink, saying the previous NRL star used the girl’s letterbox as a stand for the drink, which he would come and “finish off” when he left.
‘AWKWARD’ SINGING
The jury was informed the girl sat on the mattress, whereas Mr Hayne lay down and requested for a laptop computer earlier than singing alongside to Ed Sheeran’s cowl of Oasis’ Wonderwall.
“(The woman) found the whole singing along to songs things to be quite awkward,” Mr Sfinas stated.
The jury was informed the girl heard the taxi exterior beeping in an try and alert Mr Hayne, and he or she refused to consent to intercourse as soon as she realised.
When requested about his intentions whereas on the best way to the girl’s home, Mr Hayne stated he “wasn’t sure” however he knew the girl was “keen” as she had been sending him “flirty messages”.
“It was up in the air, best-case scenario I would be having sex with her, worst-case scenario I get to introduce myself,” he informed the courtroom throughout his prerecorded proof.
But for the girl, the courtroom was informed she had merely wished to fulfill him earlier than he returned to Sydney.
She described her temper as “excited” and “nervous”.
THE ALLEGED INCIDENT
Mr Sfinas informed the courtroom the girl requested Mr Hayne why there was a taxi, however he didn’t reply.
According to the Crown, she stated in her proof: “My heart dropped because I felt like he had only come there for one thing.”
She stated the taxi’s presence made her really feel like “absolute crap” and “sad and stupid for flirting with him to start”.
Mr Hayne briefly went exterior to inform the taxi driver he could be a short time.
When he got here again inside, as a substitute of going to the girl’s room on the entrance of the home, Mr Hayne walked straight previous the doorway, down the hallway to the lounge room the place her mom was watching the closing phases of the Sydney Roosters’ grand last victory over the Melbourne Storm.
He finally made his manner again to the bed room the place he positioned the knee of his 104kg body on the mattress and broke a slat.
Mr Sfinas informed the courtroom the girl claimed Mr Hayne tried to kiss her and pushed her face right into a pillow.
But in Mr Hayne’s model of the story, she kissed him again.
The girl claimed Mr Hayne pressured her denims off regardless of her efforts to drag them up, saying “no” and “stop”.
Mr Hayne insisted she stood up and took off her personal pants.
She described his actions as “forceful”, “fast” and “rough” as he carried out oral and digital intercourse on her, including she stated “no” and “no Jarryd” about three or 4 occasions.
It is alleged he solely stopped once they realised the girl was bleeding from her genitalia.
Mr Hayne went into the lavatory to clean his fingers earlier than the girl received within the bathe to wash off the blood.
She felt “swelling” and “stinging” on her genitalia, the Crown alleged.
Mr Hayne allegedly brought about two lacerations to the girl’s genitalia – sustaining that the accidents have been an accident and he apologised.
HAYNE’S THREE-WORD TEXT
The girl texted Mr Hayne within the hours after saying she “didn’t want to do that”.
She wrote: “I am hurting so much.”
“I know I’ve talked about sex and stuff so much but I didn’t want to do that after knowing the taxi was waiting for you,” one other textual content stated.
“I thought you would have at least stayed? I am hurting really badly … I’m sitting here in my room crying cause I feel weird.”
Mr Hayne responded: “Go doctor tomorrow.”
‘FORCEFUL AND PERSISTENT’
In the hours after the alleged incident, the girl confided in her greatest good friend.
After taking an image of her genitalia, the complainant forwarded the picture to her good friend.
She informed her greatest good friend that Mr Hayne “started being really pushy like he wanted to have sex and I kept saying no”.
The girl stated she thought Mr Hayne “wanted to get the f**k out of here”, saying the “whole situation was weird”.
“That’s like sliced everywhere,” the girl responded.
The greatest good friend wrote to the girl: “If you kept saying no and now that’s happened, that’s rape.
“You said he didn’t even say sorry, just ‘go to a doctor’, he is a c**t.
“Can’t believe he didn’t even say sorry.”
At that point, the girl didn’t need to report the incident to police – she was confused, uncertain if what had occurred constituted rape.
She was additionally scared, telling one other good friend she didn’t need it to be made public.
“I’m too scared to report it. He would have the money to ruin me and the last thing I need is my life in the public eye,” she stated.
The girl noticed a health care provider on October 3, three days after she was allegedly sexually assaulted.
REPORTING TO THE NRL INTEGRITY UNIT
The girl stored the incident to herself for a number of weeks, solely telling a choose group of family and friends.
But on October 30, the courtroom was informed she broke down and known as her sister.
Her sister informed the courtroom she was “upset” when she discovered her sister had prevented telling her of the allegations for a month however lastly opened up throughout a FaceTime name.
This set in movement the wheels of the justice system.
Her brother-in-law, a mad eager NRL fan, had been angered by the story and rang Channel 9 journalist Danny Weidler.
Weidler informed the household to name the NRL Integrity Unit and from there the authorities grew to become concerned.
THE POLICE INVESTIGATION
The name to Mr Hayne’s cellphone got here by means of at 1.42pm on November 15 – greater than six weeks because the incident and alerting him for the primary time that there was one thing afoot.
“Hi Jarryd, it’s Karyn Murphy,” the NRL Integrity Unit’s chief investigator stated.
“Um, I was just wondering if you could give me a call when you get this message, I just need to talk to you about, um, a matter,” Ms Murphy stated.
In the hours and days following that cellphone message, Hayne made and obtained a number of calls from mates and family members throughout which he mentioned the allegations that have been being made.
Little did he know, the police have been listening in.
A “weirdo” and “cuckoo” is how he described the girl, persevering with to proclaim his innocence.
“Who’s this sheila coming out saying something about ya?” NRL participant Mitchell Pearce requested.
“Oh she’s, f**k, she’s from Newie, bro,” Mr Hayne stated earlier than asking his former NSW Origin teammate to ask his Knights teammates concerning the girl.
Hayne added: “She was filthy cause the cab was out the front. I said, ‘Oh well, mate, I’m only going to be here for, you know, a short time’.”
To one other good friend, he described the girl as “a young cow just carrying on”.
“Like she’s f**king texting me. I think she started to like me or something, then because I brushed her, f**king blowing up.”
He added: “You speak to them for a bit, they get attached and they think f**king … Well mate you f**king messaged me off Instagram, you idiot.
“Then cause I’ve flicked her, she’s blown up.”
Around that point, in an try and elicit proof or an admission, police watched on as the girl despatched him Snapchat messages, confronting him with allegations she had not consented.
“Wtf are you on about!!!” Hayne stated, sustaining they’d engaged in consensual intercourse.
“I stopped straight away and made sure you were OK. You’re starting to sound suss.”
Hayne was arrested on November 19, 2018, at Ryde police station.
Closing addresses will conclude on Monday earlier than Judge Graham Turnbull.
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