'Awkward' singing by Jarryd Hayne affected alleged sexual assault

Jarryd Hayne’s ‘awkward’ singing to songs while a taxi waited outside a house made the possibility of sex completely ‘evaporate’ for a woman who claims the former star went on to sexually assault her, a court has been told.

The former football player, 35, is facing trial in the District Court after he pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.

He denies sexually assaulting the woman at her home in Fletcher, on Newcastle’s outskirts in September 2018, on the night of the NRL grand final.

The jury on Monday was told Mr Hayne was in Newcastle on the weekend of 29 and 30 September to attend a bucks weekend, while the pair were trying to arrange a meeting.

Crown prosecutor John Sfinas told the jury Mr Hayne paid a taxi driver $550 to drive him from Newcastle to Sydney and stop at the woman’s house along the way.

He told the taxi he needed to collect a bag and would be ‘back in a minute’.

While inside the house, Mr Hayne is accused of pulling off the woman’s pants before allegedly performing oral and digital sexual acts on her without her consent, causing cuts and substantial bleeding.

Mr Sfinas told the jury while the communications between the pair were sexual in nature, the woman never consented to sexual intercourse.

The jury was told the woman sat on the bed, while Mr Hayne lay down and asked for a laptop, before singing along to Ed Sheeran’s cover of Oasis’ Wonderwall.

Mr Sfinas said Mr Hayne began singing because he sensed ‘awkwardness’ in the room.

‘(The woman) found the whole singing along to songs things to be quite awkward,’ Sfinas said.

The jury was told the woman then heard the taxi outside beeping, in an attempt to alert Mr Hayne.

When she realised there was a taxi waiting outside, it is the crown’s case that the woman refused to consent as she did not know about the car.

Mr Sfinas said this was a defining moment’ that ‘shifted’ her mindset.

‘(The woman) did not know he made an agreement with the taxi to drive him all the way to Sydney, she did not know the taxi was waiting for the accused after he said it would be a minute,’ Mr Sfinas said.

‘It is the Crown case that the taxi and some awkwardness the complainant felt between the two made that possibility for the complainant evaporate.’

The jury was told the woman thought Mr Hayne was in her bedroom for one reason and jasa cuci mobil panggilan Jakarta Tangerang depok had ‘no reason to stay’ after, and did not want to have any sexual activity in those circumstances.

The crown alleged the pair were sitting on the woman’s bed when he tried to kiss her, where the woman said ‘no’ and ‘stop’.

It is alleged Mr Hayne continued to perform sexual acts on the woman but only stopped when they realised she was bleeding from her genitalia.

The jury was told Mr Hayne had blood on both his lips and hands. 

Mr Hayne went into the bathroom to wash his hands before the woman got in the shower to clean off the blood and she felt ‘swelling’ and ‘stinging’ on her genitalia, the crown alleged.

Mr Sfinas told the court that after the former Parramatta Eels fullback left her house, she sent him a text complaining ‘I am hurting so much’.

She also said: ‘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.’

‘I thought you would have at least stayed, I don’t know what to feel I told my mum it was a nosebleed and I’m sitting in my room crying,’ she continued.

Mr Hayne responded: ‘Go doctor tomorrow’.

The court was told the pair had never met but began talking two weeks prior through Instagram.

Defence barrister Margaret Cunneen SC told the court the woman sent sexual messages to Mr Hayne prior to their meeting.

‘I imagined what it would be like to be f**king you when you started talking,’ one of the messages allegedly read, the court was told.

Mr Sfinas told the jury while many of the communications were sexual in nature, the woman never consented to sexual intercourse.

The court will also hear that the woman sent her friend a text in the aftermath of the incident saying he was ‘rough’ and ‘forceful’. 

The former Parramatta Eels fullback was first charged in November 2018.

The trial continues before Judge Turnbull.