Alleged victim gives evidence in sex assault trial

The footballer then responded with three smiley face emojis with tears in the eyes. He said, “I was talking to a guy about a Rolex when I was out last night, don’t know how you got the message” and the woman joked back “sure, sure, you wanted my prices”.

The woman was shown a number of messages she sent to Mr Hayne over the next few days, including “not going to lie, I imagined what it would be like to be f—ing you”.

Crown prosecutor Brian Costello asked the woman what she was hoping would happen after sending “quite a forward message” like that.

“I think I was in fairyland, to be honest,” the woman said. “I think I wanted to meet him … I’m embarrassed to say it, but I don’t know whether, like, he’d be interested in me or whether he would wanna see me more.

“I think some of the things I said were maybe to get him to like me, and that’s embarrassing … part of me also wanted him to respect and like me as a person. I didn’t really know what would happen in the future.”

The woman said Mr Hayne sent her personal things, such as videos of his young daughter, and she wanted to meet up with him “for coffee first”.

“I didn’t just want to meet up and have sex. That wasn’t what I had in mind,” she said. “Flirting doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to go and rock up and do that.”

She said when Mr Hayne arrived she took him straight to her bedroom, because she was embarrassed she still lived with her mum as a 26-year-old, and her room was “kind of the only private area” in the house.

Mr Hayne then played Ed Sheeran songs on YouTube, which he sang along with while looking at her, and then she heard a car beeping outside.

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The woman said she discovered the taxi Mr Hayne arrived in was waiting outside, and she felt “sad and stupid” for flirting with him.

“I felt like he had only come there for one thing,” she said.

The woman said she felt Mr Hayne was a “sleaze” who only saw her as an object, and there was “no way in hell I was going to touch him”.

She said Mr Hayne then started to kiss her, and “pushed my face down and pulled my clothes off”.

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“I’m not sure whether he bit me or cut me or whatever the hell he did, but I was saying ‘don’t, no, I don’t want to’. And then I was bleeding everywhere. I went to the bathroom,” she said.

“He was just being really rough and I – I said no,” the woman said. “I think I froze in a way. I can’t remember a massive struggle.”

Mr Costello said in his opening statement to the jury that the woman “bled noticeably” from her genitals after the alleged assault, which involved Mr Hayne putting his hand and mouth on her genitals. The prosecutor said the woman sent messages to a female friend afterwards saying she “kept saying no”.

But defence barrister Phillip Boulten SC said what happened in the room was entirely consensual.

Mr Boulten said Mr Hayne got onto the woman’s bed as soon as he arrived and they chatted “somewhat awkwardly”, before Mr Hayne borrowed her laptop and sang along to some Ed Sheeran songs.

Mr Boulten said the pair then engaged in consensual sexual activity, during which the woman was accidentally “scratched, by the look of it” by Mr Hayne’s fingernail.

“He was not there to overbear her will,” Mr Boulten said.

“She did consent, is the defence case, and certainly Mr Hayne believed she was consenting – in fact, he knew she was consenting.”

The trial continues.