‘Steamy’ messages sent between Jarryd Hayne and his victim before the sexual assault
The conversation between NRL star Jarryd Hayne and his 26-year-old victim rapidly turned from flirtatious to devastated.
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When Jarryd Hayne was first accused of sexually assaulting a young woman at her Newcastle home, he immediately snapped back against the allegations.
The reaction, in a heated social media exchange between Hayne and the victim, have been released by the court and can now be shared.
The two-time Dally M winner could be facing prison after he was found guilty of two counts of sexually assaulting a woman without her consent.
Hayne was found guilty of sexually assaulting the woman when he performed oral and digital sex on the woman 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 sexual acts after she discovered Hayne had a taxi waiting outside to take him back to Sydney.
He caused two lacerations on the woman’s vagina and substantial bleeding during the fleeting encounter.
THE ‘STEAMY’ MESSAGES
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, initiated the conversation with Hayne on Instagram two weeks before they met in person on the night of the assault.
She wrote: “You are absolutely gorgeous.”
“Price it,” came Hayne’s reply.
The woman replied: “Price 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 imagined what it would be like to be f***ing you when you started talking.”
She apologised before Hayne responded: “Very steamy.”
Crown prosecutor John Sfinas told the jury it was clear the complainant found the former footy star “sexually attractive”.
While communications between the pair were sexual in nature, the Crown’s case is the woman never consented to sexual intercourse.
On September 22, she texted Hayne asking when she was going to see him.
“When are you going to be free..I am never in Sydney,” the victim wrote.
Hayne responded: “I got my little one down atm. She crook.”
The woman replied saying “poor thing” and complemented Hayne on being a good dad.
On the night before the incident, the jury was told Hayne invited the woman to join him and his friends on a bucks party.
She declined and asked whether he would still be there the following night, but he replied “na, going back tomorrow”.
“Stay one more night!!! I’m ruined :(,” the woman responded.
“Otherwise, take me back. Ha. I’m full serious and uno it. I can’t tonight babe. Coffee in the morning?”
TEXTS WITH ANOTHER MAN
On the same day she was texting Hayne the court heard the woman was messaging another man.
The jury was told the woman sent him a message on Sunday, September 30, that said “you have made me feel f**king terrible today bye” with a waving emoji.
When asked why he would receive that message, the man said: “I didn’t want to go see her.”
The jury was told the woman 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 told he then wrote to the woman: “You honestly lost me at Jarryd Hayne is your side boy.”
The woman continued to ask if the man would be coming over before saying she felt “like a f**king idiot”.
She messaged again: “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 man responded before saying: “I never said I was coming over.”
The woman said she was feeling like an idiot: “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,” more messages read.
The man told the court the woman kept texting from before lunch right through until about 8pm and she was being “aggressive”.
The jury was told the woman sent six more messages, including “what have I done now”, “you’re a jerk” and one that said she was “upset”.
The court was told the man’s messages only came to light when he was in contact with Hayne’s legal team during a previous trial.
HAYNE’S THREE-WORD RESPONSE
After Hayne left the woman’s house, she sent him a message saying that she was in pain from her injury.
“Go doctor tomorrow,” came his response.
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,” another text said.
“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.”
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 further told her friend: “I said why did you think you’re going to just come here and have sex with me.”
She said that after the taxi driver knocked on the door he became: “really pushy like he wanted to have sex and I kept saying no.”
“If you kept saying no and now that’s happened, that’s rape!” came the woman’s reply.
She told her friend “My vagina looks mangled” and she felt “violated.”
When she sent her friend a picture of her genitalia and her injuries, her friend responded: “F*** babe that’s like sliced everywhere.”
“I just feel like I’ve let it happen to myself by not screaming at him,” the woman said. “He must have like chomped it or something.”
The woman did not initially make a complaint to police and it was only when her family contacted the NRL integrity unit that an investigation began.
She told another woman via social media: “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.”
EXPLOSIVE TEXT MESSAGES
Several weeks later the woman messaged Hayne – but little did he know that the police were watching on.
“I thought you would have at least asked whether I’m OK or not by now?” The woman said in the Snapchat messages which are contained in a bundle of 34 exhibits released by the court.
Hayne replied: “You said you were OK last time we spoke?”
The woman had reluctantly agreed to talk to police, and officers asked her to send Hayne a message in an attempt to elicit a response in the hope they could use it as evidence.
“I don’t remember what I said but you knew I definitely wasn’t OK from the damage that night and you just left me that way,” the woman said.
“It was pretty messed up and you should have just stopped when I said so.”
At this point, Hayne became angry.
“Wtf are you on about!!!,” he said, maintaining they had engaged in consensual sex.
“I stopped straight away n made sure you were OK.
“We spoke for a while after n made sure you were OK be4 I left.
“Your starting to sound suss.”
Hayne is facing a maximum possible sentence of 14 years in prison.
Originally published as ‘Steamy’ messages sent between Jarryd Hayne and his victim before the sexual assault
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