Read the explosive messages NRL star Jarryd Hayne exchanged with the woman he raped before attacking her
When Jarryd Hayne was first accused of sexually assaulting a young woman in her Newcastle home, he immediately responded to the allegations.
The response, in a heated exchange on social media between Hayne and the victim, has been released by the court and is now available for sharing.
The two-time Dally M winner faces jail time after being found guilty of two counts of sexually assaulting a woman without her consent.
The messages Hayne (pictured outside court with his wife, Amellia Bonnici) shared with the woman he raped have been released following his guilty verdict
Hayne was found guilty of sexually assaulting the woman when he performed oral and digital sex on her at her Newcastle home on NRL Grand Final Night in September 2018.
The jury accepted the woman’s evidence that she refused to consent to the sex acts after discovering that Hayne had waited outside for a taxi to take him back to Sydney.
He caused two lacerations to the woman’s vagina and significant bleeding during the fleeting encounter.
THE MESSAGES
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, started talking to Hayne on Instagram two weeks before they met in person the night of the assault.
She wrote, “You are absolutely gorgeous.”
“Praise it,” was Hayne’s reply.
The woman caused the series of messages (pictured) with the fallen footy star
At some point during their exchange, the woman was invited to join Hayne and his friends for a money party, but she turned him down.
The woman replied, “Praise what.
“Do you think I’m an escort or something (emoji) because I’m not.”
Later in the conversation, she told him, “I’m not going to lie… I was imagining what it would be like to fuck you when you started talking.”
She apologized before Hayne replied, “Very steamy.”
Prosecutor John Sfinas told the jury it was clear the prosecution found the former footy star “sexually attractive.”
Although the communication between the couple was sexual in nature, the Crown’s case is that the woman never consented to sexual intercourse.
On September 22, she texted Hayne asking when she would see him.
‘When are you free? I’m never in Sydney,” the victim wrote.
Hayne replied, “I brought my little one down. She’s a crook.’
The woman responded with “poor thing,” and complimented Hayne on being a good father.
On the night before the incident, the jury was told that Hayne had invited the woman to join him and his friends at a money party.
She refused and asked if he would still be there the next night, but he replied ‘after, back tomorrow’.
‘Stay another night!!! I’m devastated :(,” the woman replied.
‘Take me back otherwise. Ha. I am completely serious and uno it. I can’t tonight honey. Coffee in the morning?’
TEXTS WITH ANOTHER MAN
On the same day she texted Hayne, the court heard the woman messaged another man.
The jury was told that on Sunday, September 30, the woman had sent him a message saying “you made me feel fucking horrible today, bye” with a waving emoji.
The court heard that the woman texted another man (pictured) on the same day she texted Hayne
The man asked her at one point during the exchange to get Haynes’ autograph for him
When asked why he would receive that message, the man said, “I didn’t want to see her.”
The jury was told the woman then wrote, “Will you talk to me or I won’t … at least answer me and stop being ad**k.”
The jury was told he then wrote to the woman, “You really lost me with Jarryd. Hayne’s your side boy.’
The woman kept asking if the man would come over before saying she felt “like an idiot.”
She messaged again, “K (sic) if you’re not gonna say yes, I’ll say yes to Jarryd Hayne.”
“Omg (sic) give me his signature treasure xx,” the man replied before saying, “I never said I’d come over.”
The woman said she felt like an idiot: ‘Are you coming over here… I’m going to say yes to Jarryd… you don’t have to come here, you’ll be old… you’re going to be a jerk.
“You said maybe so I’m asking if you aren’t,…I feel like a big idiot…are you coming over…k(sic)…if we’re not gonna keep talking I’m gonna say yes to Jarryd’, read more posts.
The woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – branded the other man an “asshole” and demanded that he stop contacting her because they were arguing over Hayne.
The man told the court that the woman continued to text from before lunch until about 8 p.m. and that she was “aggressive.”
The jury was told the woman sent six more messages, including “what have I done now,” “you’re a jerk,” and one saying she was “upset.”
The court was told that the man’s posts only came to light when he interacted with Hayne’s legal team at a previous trial.
HAYNE’S THREE WORD ANSWER
After Hayne left the woman’s house, she messaged him saying she was in pain from her injury.
“Tomorrow to the doctor,” was his response.
She wrote, “I’m in so much pain.”
Hayne was told the woman was in “great pain” when she texted him shortly after he left her home on the night of the assaults
“I know I’ve talked about sex and stuff so many times, but I didn’t want to do that after knowing the cab was waiting for you,” another text said.
“I thought you would have stayed at least? I’m in a lot of pain… I’m sitting here in my room crying because I feel weird.”
WHAT SHE TOLD HER FRIENDS
Soon after, she texted a friend.
“Something just happened and I don’t know what it was,” she said.
She went on to say to her friend, “I said why did you think you would just come here and have sex with me.”
She said that after the taxi driver knocked on the door he became: “Very pushy as if he wanted to have sex and I kept saying no.”
The woman texted a friend shortly after Hayne left her house on her big last night
The fact that Hayne had a taxi waiting outside her house for him to leave angered the woman, who insisted that she kept saying no when he urged her to have sex.
“If you kept saying no and you did, that’s rape!” came the woman’s reply.
She told her friend ‘My vagina looks mutilated’ and she felt ‘violated’.
When she sent her friend a photo of her genitals and her injuries, her friend replied, “F*** babe, that’s sliced all over.”
“I just feel like I let it happen to myself by not yelling at him,” the woman said. “He must have liked to chew it or something.”
The woman initially did not file a police complaint and it was only when her family contacted the NRL’s integrity unit that an investigation began.
The woman’s friend was stunned by what she was told about meeting Hayne
She told another woman via social media, “I’m too scared to report it.”
“He’d have the money to ruin me and the last thing I need is my life in the public eye.”
EXPLOSIVE TEXT MESSAGES
Several weeks later, the woman texted Hayne – but he was unaware that the police were watching.
“I thought you would have at least asked if I’m okay or not?” The woman said in the Snapchat posts included in a bundle of 34 exhibits released by the court.
Hayne replied, “You said you were fine the last time we spoke?”
The woman had reluctantly agreed to talk to police, and officers asked her to message Hayne in an attempt to provoke a response in the hopes that they could use it as evidence.
Snapchat mockup of messages filed in court documents
Snapchat messages between Hayne and the woman show her reminding him that she said no to his advances ‘from the start’
“I don’t remember what I said, but you knew I was definitely not well from the damage that night and you just left me like that,” the woman said.
“It was pretty messed up and you should have just stopped when I said it.”
That’s when Hayne got angry.
“What are you talking about!!!” he said, insisting they had had consensual sex.
“I stopped right away and made sure you were okay.
“We talked for a while after checking that everything was okay before I left.
“You’re starting to sound grumpy.”
Hayne faces a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.