Convicted rapist Jarryd Hayne is enjoying his last day of freedom with his wife and children before he is thrown in jail for up to 14 years.
The disgraced former NRL star left his home in Merrylands, in western Sydney, with his wife Amellia Bonnici, daughter Beliviah Ivy Hayne, 6, and one-year-old girl.
Hayne, 35, cradled his younger daughter in his right arm as he left the family home and allowed the toddler to reach out and press the doorbell.
Once a mauling footballer, Hayne, who hasn’t played since September 1, 2018, looked more like an out-of-work suburban dad than a superstar worth more than $1 million in salary a season.
Taking his last opportunity to wear bright colours before at least a decade of prison greens, Hayne threw on a loose-fitting coral t-shirt that caught on his stomach as he strolled to the car.
Convicted rapist Jarryd Hayne is enjoying his last day of freedom with his wife and children before he is thrown in jail for up to 14 years, leaving his home with his wife Amellia Bonnici, daughter Beliviah Ivy Hayne, 6, and one-year-old girl
Hayne, 35, cradled his younger daughter in his right arm as he left the family home and allowed the toddler to reach out and press the doorbell
He gave his designer sunglasses one last whirl and completed his Wednesday morning outfit with dark grey short and blue Converse sneakers.
Ms Bonnici was less eye-catching in a white tank top under dark green overalls and chomped on a banana as she loaded the kids into the black Audi Q7 SUV.
She supported her husband throughout the trial from the front row of the public gallery, alongside his mother, sisters and friends, and was inconsolable after the verdict was read out on Tuesday.
Hayne must report to Merrylands Police Station once a day as part of his bail conditions.
Judge Graham Turnbull will sentence Hayne in Downing Centre District Court in Sydney on Thursday, where prosecutors will make a detention application.
Hayne’s lawyers are expected to argue he should not be locked up until his appeal is heard, but their chances of success are slim.
The jury took 21 hours over six days to find Hayne guilty of raping a 26-year-old woman in her bedroom in Newcastle on September 30, 2018, the night of the NRL Grand Final.
The woman, who can’t be named, told the court she refused consent after finding out Hayne had a taxi waiting outside to take him back to Sydney for a party at midnight, at a cost of $550.
Ms Bonnici was less eye-catching in a white tank top under dark green overalls and chomped on a banana as she walked to the car
The couple took off after they loaded the kids into the black Audi Q7 SUV on Wednesday morning
She said when she heard the taxi beeping outside her bedroom window she resolved there was ‘no way’ she was going to consent to sex.
Text messages examined during the trial included exchanges between the pair where the woman confronted Hayne about having sex with her despite her telling him no.
‘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,’ one read.
Later she exchanged messages with Hayne on Snapchat, asking why he hadn’t got in contact to ask if she was OK, while police watched so they could collect evidence against him.
‘I don’t remember what I said but you knew I definitely wasn’t OK from the damage that night and you just left me that way,’ she wrote.
‘It was pretty messed up and you should have just stopped when I said so.
‘I said no from the start, especially because you had the taxi waiting outside, and you seemed blind drunk. You know I didn’t want anything, and you were really pushy, rough and you kept going.’
Taking his last opportunity to wear bright colours before at least a decade of prison greens, Hayne threw on a loose-fitting coral t-shirt that caught on his stomach as he strolled to the car
Hayne wiped his nose as he left the house, looking more like an out-of-work suburban dad than the superstar worth more than $1 million in salary a season before his last-ever game on September 1, 2018
Hayne responded: ‘That’s completely untrue! Everything we did you consented to.’
Tuesday’s verdict was the end of the third criminal trial against Hayne – the first in Newcastle in 2020 ended in a hung jury.
He was convicted at a second trial in March 2021 and spent nine months in prison until he successfully appealed against his conviction and a new trial was ordered.
Hayne had tears in his eyes when he said he was ‘devastated’ by the result.
‘I’m going to keep standing for the truth,’ he said, adding he maintained his innocence ‘100 per cent’.
‘I never lied to police, I never deleted evidence, I never hid witnesses – you do the math,’ he said.
Hayne pledged to appeal against the verdicts when he spoke to media outside court on Tuesday and became angry when asked if he had any remorse.
‘Sorry?’ he asked, before a reporter asked: ‘Do you have any remorse, Jarryd?’
The footy star then replied: ‘For telling the truth?’
When a reporter pointed out Hayne had twice been found guilty of rape, he cut her off with an outburst.
‘Did I lie? Did I lie? Did I lie?’ he said. ‘That’s factual evidence.’
Rugby league legend Laurie Daley also expressed disbelief to the verdict on Sky radio, saying the rapist convicted at trial was not the Hayne he knew.
‘You never like to see this happen to anyone, particularly a high-profile player,’ he said of the disgraced, out-of-shape star who hadn’t played in more than four years.
‘The Jarryd Hayne that I know, I couldn’t imagine him being part of that. But the jury have found him guilty, he has indicated he plans to appeal.
‘Obviously I haven’t stayed in touch with him since his footy career finished … but I always found him to be a very good person, someone that was an outstanding footballer.
‘But it’s terrible, all parties involved. I feel for everyone. I feel for the families, I feel for the victim.’
Read the explosive messages fallen footy star Jarryd Hayne exchanged with woman he raped before attacking her on grand final night
When Jarryd Hayne was first accused of sexually assaulting a young woman at her Newcastle home, he immediately snapped back against the allegations.
The reaction, in a heated social media exchange between Hayne and the victim, has been released by the court and can now be shared.
The two-time Dally M winner could be facing prison after he was found guilty of two counts of sexually assaulting a woman without her consent.
The messages Hayne (pictured outside court on Tuesday with his wife, Amellia Bonnici) shared with the woman he raped have been released after his guilty verdict
Hayne was found guilty of sexually assaulting the woman when he performed oral and digital sex on her at her Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in September 2018.
The jury accepted the woman’s evidence that she refused to consent to the sexual acts after she discovered Hayne had a taxi waiting outside to take him back to Sydney.
He caused two lacerations on the woman’s vagina and substantial bleeding during the fleeting encounter.
THE MESSAGES
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, initiated the conversation with Hayne on Instagram two weeks before they met in person on the night of the assault.
She wrote: ‘You are absolutely gorgeous.’
‘Price it,’ came Hayne’s reply.
The woman instigated the string of messages (pictured) with the fallen footy star
At one point in their exchange the woman was invited to join Hayne and his friends at a bucks party, but she turned him down
The woman replied: ‘Price what.
‘Do you think I’m an escort or something (emoji) because I’m not.’
Later in the conversation she told him: ‘I’m not going to lie … I imagined what it would be like to be f***ing you when you started talking.’
She apologised before Hayne responded: ‘Very steamy.’
Crown prosecutor John Sfinas told the jury it was clear the complainant found the former footy star ‘sexually attractive’.
While communications between the pair were sexual in nature, the Crown’s case is the woman never consented to sexual intercourse.
On September 22, she texted Hayne asking when she was going to see him.
‘When are you going to be free..I am never in Sydney,’ the victim wrote.
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Hayne responded: ‘I got my little one down atm. She crook.’
The woman replied saying ‘poor thing’ and complimented Hayne on being a good dad.
On the night before the incident, the jury was told Hayne invited the woman to join him and his friends on a bucks party.
She declined and asked whether he would still be there the following night, but he replied ‘na, going back tomorrow’.
‘Stay one more night!!! I’m ruined :(,’ the woman responded.
‘Otherwise, take me back. Ha. I’m full serious and uno it. I can’t tonight babe. Coffee in the morning?’
TEXTS WITH ANOTHER MAN
On the same day she was texting Hayne the court heard the woman was messaging another man.
The jury was told the woman sent him a message on Sunday, September 30, that said ‘you have made me feel f**king terrible today bye’ with a waving emoji.
The court heard that the woman was texting another man (pictured) on the same day she was texting Hayne
The man asked her to get Hayne’s autograph for him at one point during the exchange
When asked why he would receive that message, the man said: ‘I didn’t want to go see her.’
The jury was told the woman then wrote: ‘Are you going to talk to me, otherwise I won’t … at least answer me and stop being a d**k.’
The jury was told he then wrote to the woman: ‘You honestly lost me at Jarryd Hayne is your side boy.’
The woman continued to ask if the man would be coming over before saying she felt ‘like a f**king idiot’.
She messaged again: ‘K (sic) if you aren’t going to say yes then I’ll say yes to Jarryd Hayne.’
‘Omg (sic) get me his signature babe xx,’ the man responded before saying: ‘I never said I was coming over.’
The woman said she was feeling like an idiot: ‘Are you coming over … I’m going to say yes to Jarryd … you don’t have to come here you’ll be ages … you’re being a jerk.
‘You said maybe so i’m asking if you’re not, … I feel like a f**king idiot … are you coming over … k (sic) … if we aren’t going to keep talking I’m going to say yes to Jarryd,’ more messages read.
The woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – branded the other man a ‘jerk’ and demanded he stop contacting her as they argued about Hayne
The man told the court the woman kept texting from before lunch right through until about 8pm and she was being ‘aggressive’.
The jury was told the woman sent six more messages, including ‘what have I done now’, ‘you’re a jerk’ and one that said she was ‘upset’.
The court was told the man’s messages only came to light when he was in contact with Hayne’s legal team during a previous trial.
HAYNE’S THREE-WORD RESPONSE
After Hayne left the woman’s house, she sent him a message saying that she was in pain from her injury.
‘Go doctor tomorrow,’ came his response.
She wrote: ‘I am hurting so much.’
Hayne was told the woman was ‘hurting really badly’ when she texted him soon after he left her house on the night of the sexual assaults
‘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,’ another text said.
‘I thought you would have at least stayed? I am hurting really badly … I’m sitting here in my room crying cause I feel weird.’
WHAT SHE TOLD HER FRIENDS
Soon after, she texted a friend.
‘Something just happened and I don’t know what it was,’ she said.
She further told her friend: ‘I said why did you think you’re going to just come here and have sex with me.’
She said that after the taxi driver knocked on the door he became: ‘really pushy like he wanted to have sex and I kept saying no.’
The woman texted a friend soon after Hayne left her house on grand final night
The fact Hayne kept a taxi waiting outside her house so he could leave angered the woman, who stressed that she kept saying no when he pushed her for sex
‘If you kept saying no and now that’s happened, that’s rape!’ came the woman’s reply.
She told her friend ‘My vagina looks mangled’ and she felt ‘violated.’
When she sent her friend a picture of her genitalia and her injuries, her friend responded: ‘F*** babe that’s like sliced everywhere.’
‘I just feel like I’ve let it happen to myself by not screaming at him,’ the woman said. ‘He must have like chomped it or something.’
The woman did not initially make a complaint to police and it was only when her family contacted the NRL integrity unit that an investigation began.
The woman’s friend was left stunned by what she was told about her encounter with Hayne
She told another woman via social media: ‘I’m too scared to report it.’
‘He would have the money to ruin me and the last thing I need is my life in the public eye.’
EXPLOSIVE TEXT MESSAGES
Several weeks later the woman messaged Hayne – but little did he know that the police were watching on.
‘I thought you would have at least asked whether I’m OK or not by now?’ The woman said in the Snapchat messages which are contained in a bundle of 34 exhibits released by the court.
Hayne replied: ‘You said you were OK last time we spoke?’
The woman had reluctantly agreed to talk to police, and officers asked her to send Hayne a message in an attempt to elicit a response in the hope they could use it as evidence.
Snapchat mockup from messages tendered in court documents
Snapchat messages between Hayne and the woman show her reminding him she said no to his advances ‘from the start’
‘I don’t remember what I said but you knew I definitely wasn’t OK from the damage that night and you just left me that way,’ the woman said.
‘It was pretty messed up and you should have just stopped when I said so.’
At this point, Hayne became angry.
‘Wtf are you on about!!!,’ he said, maintaining they had engaged in consensual sex.
‘I stopped straight away n made sure you were OK.
‘We spoke for a while after n made sure you were OK be4 I left.
‘Your starting to sound suss.’
