BREAKING: Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Newcastle on the night of the 2018 grand final, after facing a third trial over the incident.
Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Newcastle on the night of the 2018 grand final, after facing a third trial over the incident.
Hayne embraced his wife with his eyes closed as she cried during a brief adjournment after the verdicts.The matter has been adjourned to Thursday for a detention application brought by the Crown. “The extension of bail is in no way an indication of the ultimate outcome,” the judge said.The trial heard Hayne and the woman had been talking for almost two weeks on platforms including Snapchat after she sent him a message on Instagram reading, “you’re gorgeous xx”.
After about 20 minutes, the taxi driver knocked on the door. The woman’s mother said she had been watching the grand final in the living room when Hayne, a two-time Dally M winner, caught the end and yelled out “Go the Roosters, I’m jealous” before he returned to the bedroom. The Crown alleged Hayne then performed digital penetration and oral sex without consent, before she began bleeding, leaving blood on his hands and lip.
He said Hayne had used the woman’s letterbox as a stand for his half-drunk Vodka Cruiser after he arrived in the taxi.
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