Jarryd Hayne denies making up lies in evidence at his sex assault trial

Mr Costello suggested Mr Hayne left a buck’s party with other footballers on the evening of September 30 because he was “sneaking off” to the woman’s house “with the expectation of having sex with her”.

“For the potential,” Mr Hayne said.

“Did you go there for sex and sex only?” Mr Costello said.

“Potentially sex,” Mr Hayne said.

The court previously heard that Mr Hayne played the Ed Sheeran cover of Wonderwall on the woman’s laptop when he first arrived. On Tuesday, some of the song lyrics were read out to him. Mr Costello asked if Mr Hayne sang the song to seduce the woman.

Mr Hayne laughed and said “no”.

The prosecutor suggested Mr Hayne wasn’t really interested in the woman as a person and wasn’t interested in “getting to know her, starting a friendship, keeping in touch with her”.

“It was more of a fling, really,” Mr Hayne said.

Mr Costello asked Mr Hayne if he told “various lies as part of your evidence”.

The former footballer agreed he did lie to a taxi driver by saying he was going to the woman’s home at Fletcher, on Newcastle’s western outskirts, to pick up a bag.

“Leave that one aside,” Mr Costello said. “Have you made up lies?”

“Like what?” Mr Hayne said.

“Have you made up lies to try to explain away bits of evidence in the case?” Mr Costello said.

“Yeah, I don’t understand what you think I’m lying about. Say what you think I’m lying about and I’ll tell you if I agree or disagree,” Mr Hayne said.

When the question was repeated, he responded: “No.”

Asked if he “made up” pieces of evidence and was “just changing your account as time goes by to fit bits of evidence that you need to deal with”, Mr Hayne said: “You’re entitled to your opinion”.

“Did you make it up or not?” Mr Costello said.

“I didn’t make it up,” Mr Hayne said.

Mr Hayne was also grilled about the events that evening, including climbing onto the woman’s bed, which broke one of the slats, and beginning to kiss her after previously saying she was “filthy” a cab was waiting out the front.

“She was upset you’d gone there only for sex and your solution to that … was to try and engage in sexual activity with her,” Mr Costello said.

“I thought she’d like it,” Mr Hayne said.

Mr Hayne was also asked about a $50 note that was seen on the bed after the woman began to bleed. Mr Hayne and the woman both gave evidence that he asked her if the money was hers, then pocketed it.

“Did you leave the $50 on the bed as some sort of endeavour to bribe her silence?” Mr Costello said.

“Nah,” Mr Hayne said. He said the money must have fallen out when he took out his phone to check the football scores.

The trial continues.