When Jarryd Hayne approached a home on the outskirts of Newcastle on the night of September 30, 2018, he had no thought the 46-minute encounter would result in him spending one other three years away from his household and behind bars.
As soon as a proficient rugby league star, the 35-year-old faces the prospect of returning to Cooma Correctional Centre and selecting up certainly one of his previous jobs – stitching garments or within the jail laundry room.
Hayne, now known as prisoner 661736, is spending his days remoted in a 3m by 4m cell, with solely 25 minutes of out of doors time allowed to stroll round and skim his bible.
The previous Dally M winner has suffered a outstanding fall from grace, along with his life now a far cry from the well-known footballer who drunkenly approached the entrance door of a Fletcher home on the night time of the NRL grand closing in 2018 at 9.07pm.
When he emerged 46 minutes later, Hayne left a younger girl in her room with blood on her bedspread and painful accidents to her vagina.
Now, nearly 5 years after the fleeting encounter, the notorious incident has led to him being jailed for the second time.
Jarryd Hayne is seen on video hyperlink as he discovered he would spend a minimal three years behind bars
Hayne has been jailed after being discovered responsible of sexually assaulting a lady in 2018
Hayne was used to being a family title, starting his first-grade profession with the Parramatta Eels in 2006.
However his recognition did not peak till 2014 when it was revealed he was leaving the NRL and months later signed on for the San Francisco 49ers within the NFL.
Hayne would solely final one season, throughout which he was accused of leaving a US girl bleeding from her vagina following an alleged sexual assault in December 2015.
The girl introduced a civil case towards Hayne in 2017 as there wasn’t sufficient proof for legal prices to be laid. Hayne settled for nearly $100,000 in 2019.
All through his profession, Hayne represented NSW in State of Origin 23 instances whereas additionally taking part in 21 instances for Australia and Fiji in Check matches.
Now he’s a family title for various causes, with defence solicitor Margaret Cunneen SC telling the court docket throughout Hayne’s sentence listening to that he suffered an ‘extraordinary loss to a stellar rugby profession’.
‘On this case it was the lack of an especially profitable contract in circumstances which ensured he was publicly vilified for the entire interval of the milestones which have occurred for the reason that fee of the offences,’ she stated.
Hayne, who as soon as made stadiums shake from the rumble of screaming followers, now stands alone in his cell wearing his jail greens.
He’s anticipated to return to Cooma, a medium and minimal safety facility 400km southwest of Sydney that homes high-profile criminals.
Throughout his 9 months behind bars, Hayne learnt the best way to use a stitching machine and was put to work within the jail’s textile workshop earlier than he was moved to the laundry room.
Throughout his 9 months behind bars, Hayne learnt the best way to use a stitching machine and was put to work within the jail’s textile workshop earlier than he was moved to the laundry room
Hayne was incomes $48.96 every week to scrub his fellow inmates’ sheets over 42 hours every week – an unlimited fall from the $1.2m he made taking part in for the Gold Coast Titans.
It isn’t recognized what Hayne might return to in jail, however Cooma provides jobs to prisoners in textiles, meals providers, neighborhood initiatives, floor upkeep and on the jail’s museum.
The cash is used to purchase further meals or toiletries in jail or despatched again to households.
Hayne was transferred to Cooma after he was initially housed at Parklea, the place he was pelted with apples after inmates recognised who he was.
The sufferer stated she had endured a endless nightmare since September 30, 2018.
On the time, Hayne was 104kg whereas the girl was simply 48kg.
In a sufferer affect assertion learn to the court docket on Monday, the girl stated she did not know the best way to ‘put any of this into phrases’.
‘From the thirtieth of September 2018 my life has been launched into what appears like a endless nightmare,’ she stated.
‘These kinds of issues do not simply damage, the assault was one thing horrible that occurred to me, one thing I really feel that was very personal.’
The sufferer stated she was now broken and would not ‘ever be the identical particular person’.
Choose Graham Turnbull instructed the court docket Hayne is a ‘fully completely different man’ to the one who dedicated the offences.
‘Persons are going to be left to undergo because of him being taken from them,’ Choose Turnbull stated.
‘He’s going to be doing his time in a troublesome atmosphere.’
Hayne has all the time maintained his innocence all through the trials however was discovered responsible of sexual activity with out consent final month
The complete story of what occurred in these fateful 46 minutes, which fully modified the trajectory of Hayne’s profession and life, can now be instructed after an all-female authorized group did not clear Hayne of two counts of sexual assault with out consent.
THE ‘STEAMY’ MESSAGES
Communications between the girl, who can’t be named for authorized causes, and Hayne started two weeks earlier than the fateful night time she was sexually assaulted.
She wrote: ‘You might be completely attractive.’
‘Value it,’ got here Hayne’s reply.
Later, the girl despatched a forthcoming message: ‘I am not going to lie … I imagined what it might be wish to be f**king you whenever you began speaking.’
She apologised earlier than Hayne responded: ‘Very steamy.’
Whereas communications between the pair have been sexual in nature, the girl by no means consented to sexual activity.
On September 29, Hayne jumped in a automobile with a mate and headed north on the M1 to Newcastle and despatched movies to the girl on social media, indicating he can be in Newcastle for the weekend.
Hayne instructed the girl he was planning to go away on Sunday night time.
‘Keep yet one more night time!!!’ the girl pleaded.
TEXTS WITH ANOTHER MAN
On the day of the sexual assault, the girl was additionally messaging one other man.
Steven Web page can be the one witness in Hayne’s failed defence case, giving proof that the sufferer messaged him over a number of hours.
Her first textual content learn: ‘You might have made me really feel f**king horrible right this moment bye’ with a waving emoji.
Hayne and his spouse Amellia Bonnici are seen leaving court docket in March
She then wrote: ‘Are you going to speak to me, in any other case I will not … at the least reply me and cease being a d**ok.’
Mr Web page responded: ‘You actually misplaced me at Jarryd Hayne is your facet boy.’
The sufferer denied Hayne was her facet boy.
‘He is not. He contacted me final night time and requested for my quantity and rang me, I instructed him no,’ the textual content to Mr Web page stated.
‘Omg (sic) get me his signature babe xx,’ the person responded earlier than saying: ‘I by no means stated I used to be coming over.’
A $550 TAXI FEE
Hayne paid a taxi driver $550 to drive him again to his dwelling in Sydney, asking to cease on the girl’s home alongside the way in which and telling driver Helen Morel he needed to decide up a bag.
He sat within the again seat consuming a four-pack of Vodka Cruisers earlier than putting one on the letterbox.
Hayne lay on the girl’s mattress and requested for a laptop computer earlier than singing alongside to Ed Sheeran’s cowl of Oasis’ Wonderwall.
She discovered it to be awkward earlier than she heard the taxi beeping outdoors in an try to alert Hayne. The girl refused to consent from this second.
When requested about his intentions, Hayne stated he ‘wasn’t certain’ however knew the girl was ‘eager’ as she had been sending him ‘flirty messages’.
‘It was up within the air, best-case state of affairs I’d be having intercourse together with her, worst-case state of affairs I get to introduce myself,’ he instructed the court docket throughout his prerecorded proof.
However for the girl, she had merely needed to satisfy him earlier than he returned to Sydney.
‘GO THE ROOSTERS’
Hayne did not clarify to the sufferer why the taxi was there, however the jury was instructed it made her really feel like ‘absolute crap’ and ‘silly for flirting with him to start out’.
The sufferer stated her coronary heart dropped as she realised Hayne ‘had solely come there for one factor.’
Hayne’s spouse was a continuing by his facet all through the court docket appearances
Hayne briefly went outdoors to inform the taxi driver he can be a short while. When he got here again inside, he caught the top of the grand closing between the Roosters and the Storm within the girl’s lounge.
‘Go the Roosters, I am jealous,’ Hayne stated, explaining in proof that he was jealous as a result of he had an opportunity to signal with the Roosters in 2016.
‘You recognize … so these ideas of ”it might’ve been me profitable a comp”, however it wasn’t to be,’ Hayne stated.
He made his means again to the bed room the place he positioned the knee of his 104kg body on the mattress and broke a slat.
Hayne tried to kiss the girl and pushed her face right into a pillow.
The girl claimed Hayne compelled her denims off regardless of her efforts to drag them up, saying ‘no’ and ‘cease’.
She described his actions as ‘forceful’, ‘quick’ and ‘tough’ as he carried out oral and digital intercourse on her, including that she stated ‘no’ and ‘no Jarryd’ about three or 4 instances.
He solely stopped once they realised the girl was bleeding from her genitalia. She later felt ‘swelling’ and ‘stinging’ on her vagina whereas within the bathe cleansing the blood.
Hayne triggered two lacerations to the girl’s genitalia – sustaining that the accidents have been an accident and he apologised.
HAYNE’S THREE-WORD TEXT
The girl texted Hayne within the hours after saying: ‘I’m hurting a lot.’
‘I do know I’ve talked about intercourse and stuff a lot however I did not need to try this after realizing the taxi was ready for you. I believed you’d have at the least stayed? I’m hurting actually badly … I am sitting right here in my room crying trigger I really feel bizarre.’
Hayne responded: ‘Go physician tomorrow.’
THE INVESTIGATION
The girl stored the incident to herself for a number of weeks, solely telling a choose group of family and friends, however on October 30, she broke down and referred to as her sister.
This set in movement the wheels of the justice system.
Friday marks the second time Hayne has been sentenced over the assault from September, 2018
Her brother-in-law, a eager NRL fan, had been angered by the story and rang Channel 9 journalist Danny Weidler, who instructed the household to name the NRL Integrity Unit.
The decision to Hayne’s cellphone got here by at 1.42pm on November 15 – greater than six weeks for the reason that incident and alerting him for the primary time there was one thing afoot.
Within the hours and days following, Hayne made and acquired a number of calls from buddies the place he mentioned the allegations.
Little did he know, police have been listening.
A ‘weirdo’ and ‘cuckoo’ is how he described the girl, persevering with to proclaim his innocence.
‘Who’s this sheila popping out saying one thing about ya?’ NRL participant Mitchell Pearce requested.
‘She was filthy trigger the cab was out the entrance. I stated, ”Oh effectively, mate, I am solely going to be right here for, you understand, a short while”,’ Hayne stated.
To a different good friend he described the girl as ‘a younger cow simply carrying on’.
‘Like she’s f**king texting me. I believe she began to love me or one thing, then as a result of I brushed her, f**king blowing up.’
He added: ‘You communicate to them for a bit, they get connected they usually suppose f**king … Properly mate you f**king messaged me off Instagram, you fool. Then trigger I’ve flicked her, she’s blown up.’
In an try to elicit proof or an admission, police watched on as the girl despatched him Snapchat messages, confronting him with allegations she had not consented.
‘Wtf are you on about!!!’ Hayne stated, sustaining that they had engaged in consensual intercourse.
‘I finished right away and made certain you have been OK. You are beginning to sound suss.’
THE VERDICT
The 35-year-old walked into the John Madison Tower constructing in Sydney’s CBD each day along with his spouse Amelia Bonnici beside him whereas his mom, sisters and buddies supported from the entrance row of the general public gallery.
Hayne denied sexually assaulting the girl, claiming they engaged in consensual sexual acts.
The jury deliberated for 23-and-a-half- hours, whereas Hayne was typically seen joking with household, going to lunch close by or sitting on the ground scrolling by his cellphone.
Greater than a dozen family and friends stuffed the primary two rows of the general public gallery as Hayne learnt his destiny earlier than slumping in his chair and shaking his head.
His spouse leant ahead in her seat together with her head in her arms because the verdicts have been handed down, crying and shaking.
Hayne was taken into custody throughout a Supreme Courtroom detention software. He hugged his spouse earlier than he was taken into custody.
Ms Bonnici didn’t attend her husband’s sentence, with the court docket listening to it was as a result of excessive media consideration.
Upon studying he’d be spending at the least three behind bars, Hayne cried out ‘f**king three years bro!’ when he appeared through videolink.
