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Deleted messages despatched by a girl who alleges she was raped by Jarryd Hayne confirmed she was initially within the former NRL star, however that might have rapidly modified, a courtroom has heard.
Hayne has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of sexual activity with out consent. He maintains the intercourse was consensual and is dealing with his third trial over the allegations within the NSW District Court docket.
On Thursday, the jury heard texts despatched between the alleged sufferer and one in every of her associates discussing whether or not to ask Hayne to her residence have been deleted from her cellphone when she handed it over to the police.
Within the string of messages from 2018, the 28-year-old girl stated she would solely comply with see Hayne on September 30 if her pal wasn’t going to spend time together with her that night time.
“I really feel like an af—ing fool, are you coming over?” one textual content learn to the jury on Thursday stated.
“If we aren’t going to maintain speaking, I’ll say sure to Jarryd…in any other case, I will not let him.”
The pal instructed the courtroom he thought she was joking and selected not to reply to most of her messages as a result of he was out with a pal for lunch.
“You truthfully misplaced me at Jarryd Hayne is your aspect boy,” he replied, including 4 laughing emojis to the textual content message.
Crown prosecutor John Sfinas says the lady’s attraction to Hayne had by no means been in dispute, and that she could have consented to intercourse sooner or later in time.
However Mr Sfinas argued there could have been “moments between the concept and actuality which dissolved that risk”.
That second could have occurred when she realized he had instructed a taxi to attend outdoors her residence.
Hayne visited the lady’s suburban Newcastle residence after a pal’s bucks social gathering on NRL grand last night time in 2018.
It is alleged he pulled the lady’s denims off and carried out the intercourse acts on her for about 30 seconds earlier than she began to bleed.
The courtroom has been instructed Hayne didn’t contemplate the likelihood that his actions would injure the complainant’s genitalia and that this was not his intention.
The jury has beforehand heard that seeing the taxi was a defining second for the lady and studying it was ready to drive Hayne to Sydney made her need to have intercourse with him “evaporate”.
“Discovering out he was en path to Sydney, she realized she was nothing greater than a diversion,” Mr Sfinas stated on Thursday.
The girl’s unique intentions additionally don’t mitigate the target incontrovertible fact that she sustained a genital damage after her encounter with Hayne, the prosecution argued.
-AAP
