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After deliberating for one day, a jury has found two country New South Wales footballers guilty of raping a woman at Scone in 2023.
Hayden Charles Topliss and Ryan Matthew Hawkshaw have been found guilty of raping a woman in 2023. Scone Thoroughbreds rugby league players Hayden Topliss and Ryan Hawkshaw have been found guilty of raping woman in 2023.
The men stood trial for a week in the Newcastle District Court and the jury spent a day deliberating. Two country New South Wales footballers are now behind bars after being found guilty of raping a woman at Scone in the Upper Hunter Valley in 2023. Scone Thoroughbreds rugby league players Hayden Charles Topliss, 37, and Ryan Matthew Hawkshaw, 27, stood trial for a week in the Newcastle District Court.
Both faced four counts of aggravated sexual intercourse in company, while Topliss faced two additional charges of aggravated sexual intercourse and sexual touching. Hayden Topliss and Ryan Hawkshaw will be sentenced in November for raping a woman at Scone in 2023. A jury today rejected that, finding the men guilty on all counts after deliberating for one day. Night of 'torture'The woman told jurors she had consensual sex with Hawkshaw before Topliss came in and forced her down.
In her closing address, Crown Prosecutor Charisse Hodgeman said the woman was "unshaken and firm" when giving evidence that was "inherently believable". Ms Hodgeman said the woman never imagined there would be group sex. The jury accepted there was no consent and the woman was repeatedly raped.
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