Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne called his accuser a ‘young cow’ and described her as ‘cuckoo’, covert police phone taps played to a jury have revealed.
Mr Hayne, 35, was accompanied by his wife Amelia Bonnici as the second week of his NSW District Court trial began on Monday.
The ex-NSW and Parramatta fullback has denied sexually assaulting the woman at her Newcastle home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final, pleading not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault without consent.
According to Crown prosecutor John Sfinas, Mr Hayne is accused of being ‘forceful’ and ‘rough’ while performing oral and digital sex on the woman without her consent, causing cuts and substantial bleeding.
Mr Sfinas played a series of phone calls to Mr Hayne’s phone in which he talked about the claims made against him by the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
The first call played to the court was made by NRL Integrity Unit chief investigator Karyn Murphy on November 15, 2018, more than six weeks after the alleged incident.
Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne (pictured) called his accuser a ‘young cow’ and described her as ‘cuckoo’, covert police phone taps played to a jury have revealed.
She left a message on the former Parramatta fullback’s phone saying she wanted to discuss a matter with him.
‘Hi Jarryd, Karyn Murphy from Integrity Unit, I just want you to give me a call when you get this message. I just want to talk to you about a matter,’ she said.
The jury heard that several hours later and unknown to him, Mr Hayne was caught by a police sting talking to an unnamed male about the allegations that were made to the governing body.
‘That sheila went to the NRL,’ Mr Hayne could be heard saying.
‘Yeah, (journalist Danny Weidler) messaged me, (journalist Phil Rothfield) was chasing Beave (Hayne’s manager Wayne Beavis).’
The jury heard that Mr Hayne then described the alleged victim as a ‘weirdo’ and ‘cuckoo’.
Two hours later Mr Hayne received a phone call from former NSW Origin teammate Mitchell Pearce and the pair had a conversation about the allegations.
Mr Pearce asked Mr Hayne: ‘You under the pump? Who’s this sheila coming out saying something about ya?’
‘I was in Newie, I was like ‘oh I’ll pop in on the way home’,’ Mr Hayne responded.
‘So I did that and then f***ing she was filthy cause the cab was out the front.
The ex-NSW and Parramatta fullback (pictured) has denied sexually assaulting the woman at her Newcastle home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final, pleading not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault without consent
‘I said ‘oh well mate, I’m only going to be here for, you know, a short time’. She just wigged out. And then like I watched a bit of the grand final with her old girl.’
He told Mr Pearce the alleged victim was sending him ‘nudes on Snapchat’ before the alleged incident.
Mr Hayne said after they ‘fooled around’ the woman began bleeding, which was ‘weird’.
He said the woman ‘wigged out’ on the night before later ‘flipping out’ and calling the papers.
The jury was played two more phone taps, both of which came from the same conversation with another unnamed male where Mr Hayne called the woman a ‘young cow’ and ‘idiot’.
‘But you could tell she’s f***ing mate, just a weirdo mate, you know a young cow just carrying on,’ Mr Hayne said to the other man.
‘Like she’s f***ing texting me. I think she started to like me or something. Then because I brushed her, f***ing blowing up.’
Mr Hayne said he hadn’t been texting the woman since the alleged incident.
‘Cause I didn’t, you know what I mean, like didn’t really speak to her face, she was filthy,’ he said.
He added: ‘You know, you know, f***ing, you speak to them for a bit, they get attached and they think f***ing. Well mate you f***ing messaged me off Instagram, you idiot. Like Snapchat and that.
‘And then cause I’ve flicked her, she’s blown up.’
Jarryd Hayne was a star player for the Parramatta Eels and Gold Coast Titans from 2006 to 2018
Earlier in the day, a doctor who has examined thousands of sexual assault victims told the court of the ‘significant’ injuries the woman allegedly received.
Dr Maria Nittis, an expert in examining alleged sexual assault victims, gave evidence on Monday and told the court the injuries were likely caused by ‘blunt force’ penetration of the woman’s genitalia.
The forensic doctor was asked to examine the woman by investigators, as she complained she still had injuries despite the alleged assault occurring more than a month beforehand.
She told Mr Sfinas she met with the alleged victim six weeks after the alleged incident with Mr Hayne and studied photos of her injuries the woman took on the night.
‘It’s a blunt force injury that’s generally caused in one of two ways, either because the skin has been stretched beyond its capacity and it therefore tears, or it has been crushed,’ Dr Nittis said.
‘It’s definitely been caused by penetration.
‘It could be by a finger, fingers or hand, it could be by an object, it could be a penis.’
Dr Nittis told the court she was given a brief history by the alleged victim, who told her Mr Hayne was acting ‘like a di**head’ on the night of the incident.
According to Crown prosecutor John Sfinas, Mr Hayne (pictured) is accused of being ‘forceful’ and ‘rough’ while performing oral and digital sex on the woman without her consent, causing cuts and substantial bleeding
Dr Nittis told the court the woman said there was ‘blood everywhere’ and when she stood up, her vagina was ‘hurting like hell’.
The doctor said the woman clarified her inner vaginal lips felt swollen and ‘like there was a big lump there’.
The woman had told the doctor urinating was painful after the alleged assault, and her vagina was stinging ‘like mad’.
The doctor explained the woman suffered two lacerations, one which was smaller and one which she explained as having an ‘unusual size’.
She also noted a ‘purplish bruise’ to the woman’s inner labia, a small lump and an abrasion.
Dr Nittis told the court the lacerations were caused by the tissue inside the vagina ‘stretching’.
She said the injuries were likely to have been caused by ‘forceful’ activity but it was no indicator of whether the sexual activity was consensual.
Pictured: Jarryd Hayne arrives to court
‘It’s what I would call a significant injury, it’s rare to see an injury like that post sexual assault … it would be particularly painful,’ Dr Nittis told the court.
‘You can’t look at an injury and determine whether consent occurred … it is an unusual injury after examining hundreds of sexual assault victims.’
At the time Dr Nittis examined the alleged victim, she still had a raised lump of tissue, which she described as a ‘tag’.
She said in her experience having examined ‘thousands’ of patients post-alleged sexual assault, it was not possible to look at an injury and automatically know whether consent had occurred.
Defence barrister Margaret Cunneen SC questioned whether the photographs could be misleading as they were taken on an iPhone and not by a forensic professional.
‘Yes,’ the doctor replied.
The evidence by the woman’s GP read to the court earlier in the day said she had a consult with the alleged victim on October 3, 2018 – just three days after the alleged assault.
The court was told the GP examined the woman’s vagina and could see raised tissue and a ‘lumpy area’ where the injury had been.
When asked by Sfinas whether she had seen that before, the GP replied ‘No, I hadn’t seen that.’
She told the court she had completed a pap smear on the alleged victim weeks before the alleged incident and saw no issues.
The GP had assessed the injuries and discussed the option of reporting the incident to police, but the woman said she didn’t want to.
The court was told the woman did not want to report the matter to police as she did not think ‘she could deal with any media attention’.
But after she confessed to her sister and brother-in-law what happened, the matter was reported to the NRL Integrity Unit.
The trial continues before Judge Graham Turnbull.
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