Hayne victim said she felt like ‘absolute s***’ after discovering taxi

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.

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The woman who was sexually assaulted by Jarryd Hayne said she was left feeling like “absolute sh*t” and used when he showed up at her house with a taxi sitting outside, she previously told a court.

A jury on Tuesday found the former Parramatta fullback and ex-NFL convert guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

Outside court, Hayne maintained his innocence and said he was confident of appealing the jury’s verdict.

Hayne pleaded not guilty and denied sexually assaulting the then 26-year-old woman at her home at Fletcher, on Newcastle’s outskirts, on NRL grand final night in September 2018.

His first trial in Newcastle in 2020 ended in a hung jury before he was convicted following a second trial in March 2021.

He spent nine months in prison until his conviction was quashed in the Court of Appeal and a retrial was ordered.

During the course of the 11-day day District Court trial, the jury was played the victim’s evidence from the first trial.

Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of sexual assault. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift.

During her evidence, she said that Mr Hayne performed oral and digital sex on her without her consent and causing lacerations to her genitalia.

According to her evidence, which was also played to the jury in the second trial, the woman said she did not have any expectations when she agreed to let him come over.

At this point, she described herself as being in “fairyland” and was wondering “this could maybe one day turn into something.”

Hayne travelled to Newcastle on September 29 for a two-day’s buck’s party before taking a taxi to the woman’s house, which she shared with her mother.

The pair had communicated via social media for several weeks and only met face-to-face for the first time when he came to her home.

Jarryd Hayne says he plans to appeal the verdict. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

Hayne told the court during his evidence he had no preconceived notions about whether he would have sex with the woman and it was “up in the air” at that point.

The woman said that when she heard the taxi beeping outside her window, she resolved there was “no way” she was going to consent to sex with Hayne.

“Like my heart dropped because I felt like he had only come there for one thing,” she told the court during her evidence.

“Like why would you get (the taxi driver) to wait outside for you for 20 minutes.

“I felt saddened because I felt like he must have only seen me in one type of way.”

Jarryd Hayne faced an 11-day trial before being found guilty. Photo: Matt King/Getty Images.

She said she was left feeling “like absolute crap” and “sad and stupid” for flirting with him.

“I felt like - excuse my French - absolute s*** about him getting a taxi driver to wait outside for that amount of time because he’s coming over to have sex and leave,” she said.

Hayne, in his pre-recorded evidence, told the court he went into the woman’s bedroom and lay on her bed where he attempted to serenade her by singing along to songs on YouTube.

According to the Crown prosecution, Hayne pulled off her jeans despite saying “no” and “stop”.

Hayne, in his evidence, denied that she said those words.

During her evidence, the woman said: “I didn’t want it, it wasn’t pleasurable at all. It wasn’t something I asked for.”

The woman has testified that she said “no” on three or four occasions, and Hayne only stopped when they realised that the woman was bleeding when she suffered several cuts to her genitalia.

Hayne told the court her injuries were an accident and that he apologised.

Hayne will return to court on Thursday.