Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne went to a woman’s house intending to have “best case” sex after the pair exchanged “flirty” messages, denying she ever said “no or “enough,” a court was told.
Dally M winner, 35, faces the second week of his trial in the New South Wales District Court after pleading not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault without consent.
Hayne denies sexually assaulting the woman at her home on the outskirts of Newcastle in September 2018, on the night of the NRL Grand Final, claiming they engaged in consensual sexual acts.
The former soccer star is accused of removing the woman’s pants before allegedly performing oral and digital sexual acts on her without her consent, causing cuts and considerable bleeding.
Jurors are being shown hours of recorded evidence from Mr Hayne, in which the former Parramatta Eels told the court he said he “knew the woman was interested and was sending flirty messages”.
Jarryd Hayne arrives at Downing District Court on Monday to face his alleged sexual assault charges
Hayne, pictured with his wife Amellia Bonnici, told the court he believed sex with the alleged victim was the “best case scenario” after they had exchanged “flirty” text messages.
When asked what he planned to do while at the woman’s home, he said he “wasn’t sure.”
“I was on the air…at best I would have sex with her, at worst I would introduce myself and that would be it,” Hayne told his then-attorney in the evidence.
The jury heard that Hayne had paid for a $550 taxi to take him from Newcastle to Sydney, stopping at the woman’s house on the way.
He told the court that the woman’s mother answered the door, which was “awkward.”
The court was told that Hayne entered the woman’s bedroom and joined her in bed before noting that she was “strung”.
“I tried to keep the conversation flowing…I tried to make her feel comfortable,” Hayne said.
“It was kind of weird for me the whole set up, talking and flirting along the way, then the mom opened the door, and then I got there and it wasn’t the person I was talking to and she was nervous.”
Hayne, a Dally M winner with the Eels, told the court it was “awkward” when he arrived at the alleged victim’s home.
The court heard that while Mr Hayne was in the room, the woman looked out the window to see the waiting taxi.
It is the corona case that the woman refused to consent to sex when she noticed a taxi waiting outside.
Hayne said the woman asked for the taxi and he “stared” at her.
‘I responded in my head like, you knew I was going to Sydney, why is there so much confusion?’ she told the court.
The woman then asked him, ‘Did you think you were just going to come and have sex?’
The former NRL star told the court that he said he couldn’t remember exactly what he said, but it was something like: “It’s really up to you, whatever it is.”
The court was told that Hayne broke a bed rail with his knee.
Jarryd Hayne arrives at Downing District Court in Sydney last week with his legal team, including Margaret Cunneen SC (left)
Mr. Hayne told the court that he began to kiss the woman and testified that she kissed him back before performing cunnilingus and digital penetration.
“We’d flirted and all that before, so I thought it was okay at the time,” she said.
However, it is the corona case that Mr Hayne forced the woman to remove her jeans despite her efforts to lift them when she said ‘no’ and ‘enough’.
According to Hayne’s version of events, the woman removed her pants.
It was only about 30 seconds of sexual activity before the couple noticed that the woman was bleeding.
According to Crown prosecutor John Sfinas, Mr Hayne is accused of being “blunt” and “rough”.
Mr. Hayne allegedly caused two lacerations to his genitals, but maintains that the injuries were an accident and immediately apologized.
After washing up in the private bathroom, the court was previously told Mr Hayne left quickly, but claims he stayed to make sure the woman would be okay.
Hayne, pictured with his wife Amellia Bonnici, was accused of being ‘blunt’ and ‘rough’ by the Crown prosecutor.
The woman texted him soon after, saying she was in physical pain.
“I know I’ve talked a lot about sex and stuff, but I didn’t want to do that after knowing the taxi was waiting for you,” the text read.
I thought at least you would have stayed. It hurts me a lot. I told my mom you got a nosebleed, but I’m sitting here in my room crying because I feel weird.
Hayne replied, ‘Go to the doctor tomorrow.’
Mr Hayne told the court when he received the woman’s message that he was “furious”.
“I was furious at the time,” he said.
‘Because I could see that she was trying to make something up that wasn’t true, about her saying no and leaving immediately.’
On Monday, the court heard five wiretaps that Hayne had no idea were being recorded.
On November 15, police recorded Mr Hayne speaking to an anonymous man about allegations made to the governing body, the NRL’s Integrity Unit.
“That Sheila went to the NRL,” Mr Hayne could be heard saying.
Calls Jarryd Hayne made to his friends were overheard on the pitch, and on the recording he is heard telling former NSW team-mate Mitchell Pearce that the girl ‘freaked out’ and was a ‘freak’.
“Yeah, (journalist Danny Weidler) messaged me, (journalist Phil Rothfield) was chasing Beave (Hayne’s manager Wayne Beavis).”
He described the woman as a ‘weird’ and ‘cuckoo’.
That same night he received a phone call from former teammate Mitchell Pearce, where the pair discuss the allegations.
Mr. Pearce asked: ‘Are you under the bomb? … Who is this sheila who comes out saying something about you?
He told Pearce the woman’s name and said she was sending him “nudes on Snapchat” in the weeks leading up to the alleged incident.
Mr Hayne asked his former teammate to ask if any of his Newcastle Knights teammates knew the woman.
“I was at Newie, I was like ‘oh I’ll show up on the way home,'” Mr Hayne replied.
‘So I did that and then fuck her it was dirty because the taxi was out front.’
“I said ‘oh, well dude, I’m only going to be here for, you know, a little while.’ She just went crazy,’ Hayne told her former teammate in the wiretap shown to the jury.
“And then I watched a little bit of the grand finale with his daughter.”
Mr Hayne said that after “goofing around” the woman started bleeding, which he described as “weird”.
He said the woman “freaked out” that night, but then “freaked out” and reported the matter to reporters.
Hayne, pictured celebrating a try in the Eels 2009 qualifying final win against the Dragons, told the court he watched a bit of the 2018 NRL grand final with the alleged victim’s mother.
The jury played two more phone tapes, both of which came from the same conversation with another anonymous man where Mr. Hayne called the woman a “young cow” and an “idiot.”
“But you could tell she’s a fucking partner, just a weird partner, you know, a young cow just going on,” Mr. Hayne told the other man.
‘Like he was texting me. I think he started to like me or something. Then because I brushed against her, fucking exploding.
Hayne said she had not been texting the woman since the alleged incident.
Because I didn’t, you know what I mean, like I didn’t really talk to her face, she was dirty,” she said.
He added: ‘You know, you know, fuck, you talk to them for a while, they get attached and think about fucking. Well dude, you sent me an Instagram message, idiot. Like Snapchat and stuff.
‘And then because I’ve hit her, she’s exploded.’
The trial continues before Judge Graham Turnbull.