Jarryd Hayne

The wife of ex-NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne has broken down in court after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at her Newcastle home almost ...

“I‘m too scared to report it. Mr Hayne said the woman had become attached to him and was “blowing up” because “I brushed her”. you just left me that way. He described the woman as a “young cow” who was “cuckoo”. While Hayne got up to wash his face in the bedroom’s ensuite, the woman got in the shower and said the injury was “stinging like mad”. The woman said she thought Hayne “wanted to get the f**k out of here”, saying the “whole situation was weird”. “Did I lie? Hayne went into the bathroom to wash his hands before the woman got in the shower to clean off the blood, feeling “swelling” and “stinging” on her genitalia, the Crown told the court. Did I lie? He said the presence of the taxi made her feel “like absolute crap” and “sad and stupid for flirting with him to start”. Mr Sfinas told the court the woman felt overpowered, with Hayne pulling off her jeans before sexually assaulting her despite saying “no” and “stop”. Mr Hayne decided to “pop in” to the woman’s house on the way.

When taxi driver Helen Morel arrived at a house in Newcastle on NRL grand final night in 2018, she was told she was going to have to ferry someone to Sydney ...

She said she was feeling “annoyed or frustrated” as she wanted to get on the road to Sydney and head back to Newcastle. “I asked her if Jarryd was coming soon or was he ready to go, or something along those lines,” Ms Morel told the jury. She noticed he was on his phone “quite a bit” before arriving at the house and assuring her he would only be a few minutes. As Hayne walked into the house, Ms Morel told the court he placed an empty bottle on the letterbox. The taxi driver said it was fine as the house wasn’t far from the M3 and Hayne directed her using the GPS system on his phone. She told the court Hayne paid the $550 upfront as soon as he got into the taxi.

Former NRL player pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent over incident in Newcastle in 2018.

He was charged in November that year, after the allegation reached the NRL integrity unit. He was off contract when charged in November 2018. Hayne attended the Newcastle home she shared with her mother on NRL grand final night in 2018, when he was in town for a buck’s weekend, paying for a taxi to wait outside before driving him to Sydney.

Hayne, 35, pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and faced a two-week trial over the allegation in the NSW District Court. It ...

He was off-contract when charged in November 2018. Hayne was a star rugby league player, playing most of his 214 NRL games for the Parramatta Eels as well as representing Australia and Fiji. He was charged in November that year, after the allegation reached the NRL integrity unit. Hayne could be heard saying "it's a disgrace" when the verdict was handed down and his wife broke down in tears. On the night of the assault, Hayne attended the Newcastle home she shared with her mother on NRL grand final night, when he was in town for a bucks' weekend, paying for a taxi to wait outside before driving him to Sydney. When asked how he was feeling, he said "devastated, devastated" and appeared to be holding back tears.

An emotional Jarryd Hayne walked outside the courthouse - hand-in-hand with his wife Amellia - after being found guilty of two counts of sexual assault. He ...

Hayne had told her he was only going to the house to pick up a bag. “It’s no part of the accused’s evidence that he did not know that it was illegal to have digital or oral intercourse with someone without consent. It is not enough to be satisfied on the balance of probabilities — what is what is required is proof beyond reasonable doubt.” She instead invited him for coffee or breakfast the next morning. But they were told that message should not be seen as putting any pressure on them. We would like to clarify if ignorance of the law is a sufficient defence.” Judge Graham Turnbull gave a lengthy message to the jury on Tuesday morning, the day after he made a “Black Direction” asking them to reconsider the votes of a few jurors. But Hayne told the court the penetrative and oral acts were consensual, he was “shocked” when he realised he was covered in the woman’s blood and said he accidentally clipped her with his finger. Being satisfied beyond reasonable doubt does not mean it is more likely than not. “You are the only ones to have heard and seen all the evidence and therefore it’s what you make of the evidence which is the touch stone,” Judge Turnbull said. But Hayne told the court the digitally penetrative and oral acts were consensual, he was “shocked” when he realised he was covered in the woman’s blood and said he accidentally clipped her with his finger. “In this case, you must remember the burden of proof is on the Crown and the accused does not have to prove anything,” Judge Turnbull said.

It is the third time the former Parramatta Eels player has faced trial on the same allegations.

He argued the jury had been given "flawed" directions and that there had been an error in a pre-trial ruling on evidence. He played 11 Tests for Australia, helping them to win the 2013 World Cup. It is the third time Hayne has faced trial for the same case, with the first ending in a hung jury and the second's guilty verdict overturned on appeal.

A jury has found former NRL player Jarryd Hayne guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at a home in Newcastle in 2018.

I said no',' Mr Sfinas told the jury. He was found guilty on Tuesday One of the successful grounds was that the judge wrongly overturned a ruling from the first trial allowing messages exchanged between the complainant and another person - which explained the complainant's 'abiding interest in having sex with Jarryd Hayne', to be admitted into evidence. The woman wrote: 'You knew I definitely wasn't OK from the damage that night… Hayne allegedly caused two lacerations to the woman's genitals. They found Hayne guilty of performing oral and digital sex on the woman without her consent. 'I'm too scared to report it,' she said. are you coming over … He was re-tried in March 2021. I feel like a f**king idiot … A retrial was ordered. Did I lie?

'You f***ed the appeal': Hayne victim's outburst revealed after guilty verdict.

I feel like a f***ing idiot, are you coming over?” Ms Cunneen told the court she wanted to address a “social media campaign” in relation to the trial. He said the woman appeared to be “very agitated and angry” at the time as it was a “situational event arising from distress” in the way she saw the appeal to be going. He said the woman’s statement was not inaccurate “in the eyes of a lay person” with an emotional attachment to the matter. are you coming over … “He isn’t. The woman’s “anticipated result” in relation to the appeal was correct, Judge Turnbull said. k (sic) … The woman then said to a police officer: “If those messages get out, I’m f***ed and he will get off.” I feel like a f**king idiot … The jury was told Mr Page then wrote to the woman: “You honestly lost me at Jarryd Hayne is your side boy”. A woman who was sexually assaulted by former NRL star Jarryd Hayne was so emotional on the day of his appeal that she told a man who would later become a defence witness “you f***ed my appeal”.

A jury has found ex-NRL star Jarryd Hayne guilty of sexually assaulting a woman four-and-a-half years ago.

The Court of Appeal quashed that conviction and he walked free from prison on his 34th birthday, on February 14, 2022. “It’s no part of the accused’s evidence that he did not know that it was illegal to have digital or oral intercourse with someone without consent. His defence barrister Margaret Cunneen SC, argued the woman did not say no, was attracted to Hayne and conscious of his fame and status. It is not enough to be satisfied on the balance of probabilities — what is what is required is proof beyond reasonable doubt.” We would like to clarify if ignorance of the law is a sufficient defence.” Being satisfied beyond reasonable doubt does not mean it is more likely than not. He faced his first trial in Newcastle in 2020, but the jury could not reach a verdict, while he was convicted at a second trial in March 2021 and sent to prison for nine months until he successfully appealed the decision. According to the prosecution, Hayne was in a rush to “get what he came for” despite the woman having told him she did not want to have sex once she knew a taxi was sitting outside. It heard Hayne had invited the woman to meet him out the night before while he was at a party during the bucks’ weekend, but she did not want to because it was all men and instead invited him for coffee or breakfast the next morning. He claimed he tried to break the ice by putting a few of his “go-to” songs on YouTube, including Ed Sheeran’s cover of Oasis’ song ‘Wonderwall’ before the woman noticed a taxi was waiting outside and was “filthy” about it. He told the jury the woman decided she did not want to have sex with Hayne after she realised a taxi was waiting outside. But Hayne told the court the acts were consensual, he was “shocked” when he realised he was covered in the woman’s blood and said he accidentally clipped her with his finger.

The woman who was sexually assaulted by former NRL star Jarryd Hayne says she resolved not to touch him after discovering a taxi waiting outside.

Former footballer Jarryd Hayne has been convicted for a second time of sexually assaulting a woman at her Newcastle home in September 2018.

Jarryd Hayne said the bleeding his sexual assault victim suffered was “nothing major”, phone calls tapped by the police reveal.

Later in the conversation, he said the victim had written to him, in which she was “carrying on”. “You speak to them for a bit, they get attached and they think f***ing … “Like she’s f***ing texting me. It was nothing major, just a little bit. “(I had) come back, and we were fooling around, and she like bled a little bit. He told friends he thought the reason she complained to the NRL integrity unit was because she “started to like him” and “wigged out” when he “flicked her”.