The spouse of NRL celebrity Jarryd Hayne has damaged down in court docket after he was discovered guilty of sexually assaulting a girl at her Newcastle house virtually 5 years in the past.
After greater than six days of deliberating, a jury on Tuesday discovered the two-time Dally M winner and ex-NFL convert guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse with out consent.
Following an 11 day trial in Sydney’s JMT District Court, the jury of six males and 6 girls declared their verdict and convicted Hayne.
The 35-year-old has walked into the John Madison Tower constructing in Sydney’s CBD on daily basis together with his spouse Amelia Bonnici beside him, his mom, sisters and pals supporting him from the entrance row of the general public gallery.
Ms Bonnici, who has been supporting her husband all through the trial by sitting on the entrance of the general public gallery dropped her head in her arms after the decision was learn out and began crying.
More than a dozen supporters sat shoulder to shoulder within the entrance two rows of the general public gallery, with many shaking their heads in disbelief.
Hayne shook his head and appeared down at his lap, whereas his mom held again tears from the entrance row of the general public gallery.
Once the jury was despatched out, Hayne walked over and held Ms Bonnici as she cried into his chest.
He then hugged his mom as he held again tears.
He is going through a most attainable sentence of 14 years in jail.
Hayne pleaded not guilty and denied sexually assaulting the then 26-year-old lady at her house at Fletcher, on Newcastle’s outskirts, in September, 2018.
His first trial in Newcastle in 2020 led to a hung jury, whereas he was convicted at a second trial in March 2021 and despatched to jail for 9 months till he efficiently appealed the choice.
This jury, who heard contemporary proof from a person the sufferer texted on the identical day, agreed with the prior jury and located Hayne guilty of performing oral and digital intercourse on the lady with out her consent.
The jury was instructed the lady refused to consent to intercourse as a result of the ex-Parramatta fullback had a taxi ready outdoors.
He had been in Newcastle for a two-day bucks occasion and had organised to pay a cab driver $550 to take him again to Sydney, the place he was required to attend an occasion at midnight.
Mr Hayne determined to “pop in” to the lady’s home on the best way.
She gave him her handle about 7.30pm and requested after him when he nonetheless hadn’t arrived an hour later: “Where are you idiot?”
“It was up within the air, finest case state of affairs I’d be having intercourse along with her, worst case I’d simply get launched and that was it,” Mr Hayne instructed the court docket in prerecorded proof.
Both agree the footballer tried to interrupt the ice by asking to do a “singalong” and taking part in songs off her laptop computer, with an Ed Sheeran cowl of ‘Wonderwall’ first up.
Things turned bitter when an impatient taxi driver knocked on the door asking after Mr Hayne, who had instructed her he was simply stopping in to “decide up a bag”.
The lady, who can’t be named for authorized causes, stated when she heard the taxi beeping outdoors her bed room window she resolved there was “no means” she was going to consent to intercourse.
Crown prosecutor John Sfinas instructed the jury in his closing handle the lady “felt like he had solely come there for one factor”.
He stated the presence of the taxi made her really feel “like absolute crap” and “unhappy and silly for flirting with him to start out”.
The lady described herself as being in “fairyland” on the time, and contemplated whether or not “this might perhaps sooner or later flip into one thing”.
But when she noticed the taxi ready outdoors, the lady felt like “absolute s**t”, the jury was instructed.
The pair had communicated by way of social media for a number of weeks main as much as the incident however had not met face-to-face earlier than the night of September 30 — the identical night because the NRL grand final.
“I’m not gonna lie, I imagined what it will be prefer to be f***ing you while you began speaking,” the lady stated in a direct message to Hayne on Instagram.
Hayne was ingesting on the taxi journey to the lady’s home and left an empty bottle of a Vodka Cruiser on the letterbox.
He instructed the court docket in prerecorded proof he went into the lady’s bed room and lay on her mattress the place he tried to serenade her by singing alongside to some of his “go-to” songs on YouTube, together with an Ed Sheeran cowl of Oasis’s Wonderwall.
According to the lady, he forcibly kissed her and pushed her head into the pillow.
Mr Sfinas instructed the court docket the lady felt overpowered, with Hayne pulling off her denims earlier than sexually assaulting her regardless of saying “no” and “cease”.
But in response to the NRL star, the lady kissed him again and stood up earlier than taking off her personal pants.
She described his actions as “forceful”, “quick” and “tough”, as he carried out oral and digital intercourse on her, including she stated “no” and “no Jarryd” about three or 4 occasions.
He solely stopped after they realised the lady was bleeding from her genitalia.
Hayne went into the lavatory to clean his arms earlier than the lady bought within the bathe to scrub off the blood, feeling “swelling” and “stinging” on her genitalia, the Crown instructed the court docket.
He allegedly brought on two lacerations to the lady‘s genitalia – sustaining the accidents have been an accident and he apologised.
While Hayne bought as much as wash his face within the bed room’s ensuite, the lady bought within the bathe and stated the damage was “stinging like mad”.
He shortly left, however Hayne insists he assured the lady she was alright earlier than heading out.
Soon after, the lady despatched him a string of textual content messages saying “I’m hurting a lot” and “I do know I’ve talked about intercourse and stuff a lot however I didn’t wish to try this after realizing the taxi was ready for you”.
Hayne replied: “Go physician tomorrow.”
She additionally messaged one other pal saying he was “tough” and he “ended up getting his hand down there”.
The lady stated she thought Hayne “needed to get the f**ok out of right here”, saying the “complete state of affairs was bizarre”.
She despatched one other textual content to her pal saying: “I really feel like I let it occur to myself by not screaming at him.”
At the time, the lady didn’t wish to report the incident to police – she was confused, uncertain if what had occurred constituted rape.
She was additionally scared, telling one other pal she didn‘t need it to be made public.
“I‘m too scared to report it. He would have the cash to smash me and the very last thing I would like is my life within the public eye,” she stated.
The lady noticed a physician on October 3, three days after she was sexually assaulted.
Her allegations have been reported to police after her brother in regulation contacted the NRL Integrity Unit with out her data at the start of November 2018.
On November 14 and 15 police watched over a Snapchat change between the lady and Mr Hayne, which began with the complainant saying: “I assumed you’d have not less than requested if I used to be OK or not by now.”
“You stated you have been OK final time we spoke?” he wrote again.
She wrote: “You knew I positively wasn’t OK from the injury that night … It was fairly tousled … you simply left me that means.
“You ought to have simply stopped after I stated so.”
Mr Hayne wrote a sequence of messages again denying the lady’s claims.
“Wtf are you on about???” he stated.
“You’re beginning to sound suss.”
In an intercepted telephone name between Mr Hayne and fellow NRL participant Mitchell Pearce in November 2018, Mr Hayne instructed his pal the lady was a “full-blown weirdo” who had “wigged out” after their assembly.
He described the lady as a “younger cow” who was “cuckoo”.
Mr Hayne stated the lady had turn into connected to him and was “blowing up” as a result of “I brushed her”.
Hayne was arrested on November 19, 2018, at Ryde Police Station.
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