Defiant Jarryd Hayne blows up outside court at TV reporter as he's asked if he has any remorse after being found guilty of rape for a second time: 'Did I lie? Did I lie?!'

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Jarryd Hayne remained remorseless after being found guilty on Tuesday afternoon of raping a woman at a home in Newcastle almost five years ago.

The former NRL player, 35, was found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent following 21 hours of deliberations over six days. 

Hayne pledged to appeal against the verdicts when he spoke to reporters outside Sydney's Downing Centre District Court 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 Nine News reporter pointed out Hayne had now 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.'

Jarryd Hayne remained remorseless after being found guilty on Tuesday afternoon of raping a woman at a home in Newcastle almost five years ago. He is pictured outside Sydney's Downing Centre District Court

Earlier, 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,' Hayne said.

The Dally M-winner shook his head when the verdict was delivered and went over to hug his wife Amellia Bonnici, who was inconsolable.

Ms Bonnici supported her husband throughout the trial from the front row of the public gallery, alongside his mother, sisters and friends.

Hayne is facing a maximum sentence of 14 years behind bars, but he will be allowed to return to his home on the Central Coast with his wife before he goes into custody.

Hayne had pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman at her home at Fletcher, near Newcastle, in September 2018.

The verdict came 45 minutes after Judge Graham Turnbull addressed a question from the jury asking if 'ignorance of law is sufficient defence'. 

The Dally M-winner shook his head when the verdict was delivered, and went over to hug his wife Amellia Bonnici, who was inconsolable. Hayne is pictured holding Ms Bonnici's hand on Tuesday outside court

The note said the jury had made progress but was still struggling to come to a unanimous decision.

'Dear Your Honour, we have taken another vote and while we made progress we are not at unanimous,' Judge Turnbull said the note read.

'We'd like to clarify if ignorance of the law is sufficient defence.'

Judge Turnbull said the short answer to the question was 'no' but there was a 'little more nuance' to it. 

He told the jury they must remember the burden of proof laid with the Crown rather than with the defence.

'The accused does not have to prove anything,' Judge Turnbull said.

'In relation to this case, neither the accused nor the complainant misunderstood it was anything but illegal to force yourself on a woman without her consent whether it be digital or oral.'

In no part of Hayne's evidence did he say he did not know it was illegal to have digital or oral intercourse with someone without their consent, Judge Turnbull said.

He said if the jury accepted Hayne's evidence as 'true or possibly true' then it constituted a cause for acquittal.

'I remind you it's the Crown case there was never any consent to any sexual activity by words or conduct,' Judge Turnbull said.

'You must ensure you make a focus on the evidence in this case.'

Hayne's wife Amellia Bonnici (pictured together) cried in the court when the guilty verdict was handed down

Jurors were given a 'Black direction' on Monday, after they sent Judge Turnbull a note saying they were struggling to come to a unanimous decision.

'After lengthy discussion and multiple notes we are not able to make a decision,' the note on Monday said.

'We are seeking guidance on how to proceed.'

A Black direction advises a jury if they cannot reach a verdict after deliberations, to 'fulfil the utilitarian objective of producing a verdict without putting undue pressure on jurors to change their minds'.

'Members of the jury, I have been told that you have not been able to reach a verdict so far,' Judge Turnbull told the jury on Monday.

'I have the power to discharge you from giving a verdict but I should only do so if I am satisfied that there is no likelihood of genuine agreement being reached after further deliberation.'

Tuesday's verdict marked the end of the third criminal trial against Hayne - the first was in Newcastle in 2020 and ended in a hung jury.

He was convicted at a second trial in March 2021 and sent to prison for nine months until he successfully appealed against the decision.

The third jury heard fresh evidence from a man the victim texted on the same day as the offence was committed. They found Hayne guilty of performing oral and digital sex on the woman without her consent. 

Hayne (pictured playing for Parramatta in 2018) had been waiting almost six days to hear the jury's verdict in his sexual assault trial

Jurors were told the woman refused to consent to sex on the night of September 30, 2018, because the ex-Parramatta fullback had a taxi waiting outside.

Hayne had been in Newcastle for a two-day buck's party and organised to pay a cab driver $550 to take him back to Sydney, where he was required to attend an event at midnight.

He decided to 'pop in' to the woman's house on the way.

She gave him her address about 7.30pm and asked Hayne when he still hadn't arrived an hour later: 'Where are you fool?'

'It was up in the air, best case scenario I would be having sex with her, worst case I would just get introduced and that was it,' Hayne told the court in prerecorded evidence.

Both Hayne and the woman agree that the footballer tried to break the ice by asking to do a 'singalong' and playing songs off her laptop, with an Ed Sheeran cover of 'Wonderwall' first up.

Things turned sour when the impatient taxi driver knocked at the door asking for Hayne, who had told the cabbie he was just stopping in to 'pick up a bag'.

The woman said when she heard the taxi beeping outside her bedroom window she resolved there was 'no way' she was going to consent to sex.

Crown prosecutor John Sfinas told the jury in his closing address the woman 'felt like he had only come there for one thing'.

Mr Sfinas said the presence of the taxi made her feel 'like absolute crap' and 'sad and stupid for flirting with him to start'.

The woman described herself as being in 'fairyland' at the time, and pondered whether 'this could maybe one day turn into something'.

But when she saw the taxi waiting outside, the woman felt like 'absolute s**t', the jury was told.

Hayne and the woman had communicated via social media for several weeks leading up to the rape but had not met face-to-face before that evening - the same night as the NRL grand final.

'I'm not gonna lie, I imagined what it would be like to be f***ing you when you started talking,' the woman said in a direct message to Hayne on Instagram.

Hayne was drinking on the taxi ride to the woman's house and left an empty bottle of a Vodka Cruiser on the letterbox.

He told the court in prerecorded evidence he went into the woman's bedroom and lay on her bed where he attempted to serenade her.

According to the woman, he forcibly kissed her and pushed her head into the pillow.

Mr Sfinas told the court the woman felt overpowered, with Hayne pulling off her jeans before sexually assaulting her despite saying 'no' and 'stop'.

But according to the Hayne, the woman kissed him back and stood up before taking off her own pants.

She described his actions as 'forceful', 'fast' and 'rough', as he performed oral and digital sex on her, adding she said 'no' and 'no Jarryd' about three or four times.

Hayne only stopped when they realised the woman was bleeding from her genitalia.

He went into the bathroom to wash his hands before the woman got in the shower to clean off the blood, feeling 'swelling' and 'stinging' on her genitalia, Mr Sfinas told the court.

Hayne allegedly caused two lacerations to the woman's genitals. He maintained the injuries were an accident and he apologised.

Hayne quickly left the house but insisted he had assured the woman she was all right before heading out.

Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne and wife Amellia Bonnici arrive at court in Sydney on March 20

Shortly afterwards, the woman sent him a string of text messages saying, 'I am hurting so much' and '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'.

Hayne replied: 'Go doctor tomorrow.'

The woman also messaged another friend saying he was 'rough' and he 'ended up getting his hand down there'.

The woman said she thought Hayne 'wanted to get the f**k out of here', saying the 'whole situation was weird'.

She sent another text to her friend saying: 'I feel like I let it happen to myself by not screaming at him.'

At the time, the woman did not want to report the incident to police - she was confused and unsure if what had happened constituted rape.

She was also scared, telling another friend she didn't want what had happened to be made public.

'I'm too scared to report it,' she said. 'He would have the money to ruin me and the last thing I need is my life in the public eye.'

The woman saw a doctor on October 3, three days after she was raped.

Her allegations were reported to police after her brother-in-law contacted the NRL Integrity Unit without her knowledge at the beginning of November 2018.

On November 14 and 15 police watched over a Snapchat exchange between the woman and Hayne which started with her saying: 'I thought you would have at least asked if I was OK or not by now.'

'You said you were OK last time we spoke?' he wrote back.

The woman wrote: 'You knew I definitely wasn't OK from the damage that night… It was pretty messed up… you just left me that way.'

'You should have just stopped when I said so.'

Hayne wrote a series of messages back denying the woman's claims.

'Wtf are you on about???' he said. 'You're starting to sound suss.'

In an intercepted phone call between Hayne and fellow NRL player Mitchell Pearce in November 2018, Hayne told his friend the woman was a 'full-blown weirdo' who had 'wigged out' after their meeting.

He described the woman as a 'young cow' who was 'cuckoo'.

Hayne said the woman had become attached to him and was 'blowing up' because 'I brushed her'.

Hayne was arrested on November 19, 2018, at Ryde Police Station.

Read the never before seen bombshell text messages that rocked Jarryd Hayne's rape trial as NRL star is found guilty of sexual assault

A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by Jarryd Hayne was consistently messaging another man the same day asking him to go and see her - otherwise she 'would get Jarryd Hayne to come over', his trial was told.

The former NRL star has faced three criminal trials in the NSW District Court over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman at her Newcastle home, but did not hear from Steven Page, a defence witness, until this time around.

Mr Page was the final witness at the 11-day retrial and the only one called by Hayne's defence barrister, Margaret Cunneen SC. 

He gave evidence via AVL for just 20 minutes, where he told the court he had met the woman, who cannot be identified, three times before September 30, 2018.

On that day – the same day she alleges she was sexually assaulted by Hayne – the woman had been contacting the man 'continually' as he had lunch and dinner with friends.

Texts (above) between the woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by former NRL star Jarryd Hayne and a man she'd planned to see the same night as the alleged attack have been revealed in court

A NSW District Court jury found Hayne guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent over the oral and digital penetration of the then 26-year-old woman.

He was accused of pulling off the woman's pants before allegedly performing oral and digital sexual acts on her without her consent, causing cuts and substantial bleeding. 

Hayne had claimed they engaged in consensual sexual acts but the jury favoured his accuser. 

During his evidence, Mr Page told the court he shared screenshots of the conversations he had with the woman with his roommate as he thought it 'was a joke'.

Ms Cunneen SC took the witness through screenshots of the exchange, with the jury hearing the victim sent Mr Page a message which said 'you have made me feel f***ing terrible today bye' with a waving emoji.

When the man was asked why he would receive that type of message he said: 'I didn't want to go see her'.

Ms Cunneen said 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 defence barrister asked why the woman wrote that.

'Prior to that message she was saying if I didn't go see her she would get Jarryd Hayne to come over,' the man told the court.

The jury was told Mr Page then wrote to the woman: 'You honestly lost me at Jarryd Hayne is your side boy'.

Steven Page claims the woman said she'd invite Hayne (pictured with his wife Amellia Bonnici) over after he rejected her

Ms Cunneen told the jury the woman denied Hayne was her 'side boy'.

'He isn't. He contacted me last night and asked for my number and rang me, I told him no,' the text to Mr Page said.

Mr Page said he had stopped talking to the woman that day but she continued to send even more messages which read: 'You said maybe, so I'm asking if you're not? I feel like a f***ing idiot, are you coming over?'

Another message said: 'K, if we aren't going to keep talking, I'm going to say yes to Jarryd Hayne coming here to hang out when he's done with his mates; otherwise I won't let him.'

'Omg (sic) get me his signature babe xx,' Mr Page responded before saying: 'I never said I was coming over'.

The woman then wrote: 'You're an a**hole, don't speak to me again.'

Mr Page told the court he was joking in the final text message he sent because he didn't take the woman seriously.

He described her as being 'aggressive'.

'All I can recall was just feeling like she was being aggressive and she was just messaging me non-stop talking to herself,' Mr Page said.

The jury was told the woman sent a further six messages to Mr Page.

She continued to ask if he was coming over before saying 'stop talking to me altogether' and calling him a jerk.

The woman also said his lack of reply was making her 'upset' and 'bringing me down so badly'.

'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.

Mr Page told the court the messages were spread over many hours from before lunch right through until about 8pm.

Mr Page told the court he received messages from the woman until about 8pm, about an hour before she claims Hayne (above) arrived at her home

He told the court the last message would have been received about 8pm.

The jury was previously told Hayne arrived at the woman's house at 9.07pm.

Ms Cunneen told the court Mr Page's evidence only came to light when he made contact with Hayne's legal team during a previous trial.

The court heard police did not know about the woman's exchange with Mr Page during their initial investigation into the alleged sexual assault.

Mr Page only gave a statement to police in March this year.

In his closing address Crown prosecutor John Sfinas told the jury that 'little comes' of Mr Page's evidence as the woman was always 'forthright' about her intentions with Hayne.

Mr Sfinas said the woman was willing to say no to Hayne in favour of seeing Mr Page.

'What does she say about the accused? In response to 'You honestly lost me at Jarryd Hayne is your sideboy' she says: 'he isn't, he contacted me last night … I said no',' Mr Sfinas told the jury.

'The Crown says that is compelling evidence … she was not completely obsessed or wedded to the idea she would see the accused.'

Mr Sfinas told the court the woman was 'demonstrating a degree of indifference, a preference to spend time with someone else'.

While the woman had been open to the possibility of having sex with Hayne, Mr Sfinas told the court there were 'defining moments' that 'dissolved the possibility'.

But Ms Cunneen said in her closing address it was the woman's attempt at 'curating' the evidence in favour of herself.

'She is curating the evidence to support herself in this matter,' she told the jury.

'You might be very concerned that with this crafting of the evidence, does that affect your assessment of her capacity to fill in the blanks, or leave material out or to make the evidence that she thinks will assist herself in this case?'

She told the court police were 'never aware' of communications the woman had Mr Page and another woman leading up to the alleged incident.

Hayne (above) pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent relating to the oral and digital penetration of the then 26-year-old woman. He was found guilty on Tuesday

Ms Cunneen said it was an area of evidence the 'police had no idea about' until earlier court proceedings.

'Hayne was charged, the criminal justice process was taking place from 2018 as the productive years of his career ebbed away,' she said.

'A couple of years later it is found that this chronology that we have here was originally much shorter in three very distinct respects.'

She said the police never knew about communications the woman had with another man, which indicated her 'frame of mind'.

'You can see in the end, she deliberately curated the material that she gave to the police,' Ms Cunneen said.

'If Hayne had committed these dreadful crimes, why would she be deleting any of these messages?'

Hayne was found guilty after the jury deliberated for six days.