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Jarryd Hayne rape trial hears former NRL star’s ‘sexual prowess was terrible’ as closing arguments end
Jarryd Hayne’s “sexual prowess was terrible”, his rape trial has heard, but if his alleged victim had not been injured a complaint may not have been made.
Key points:
- Jarryd Hayne faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if he is convicted on two counts of aggravated sexual assault causing actual bodily harm
- The jury is expected to begin deliberating after almost two weeks of hearings in Newcastle District Court
- Mr Hayne’s barrister urged the jurors to put aside Mr Hayne’s public profile and characterised the encounter as a case of “bad sex”
In his closing remarks defence barrister Phillip Boulten SC said that Mr Hayne’s encounter with the woman on the night of September 30, 2018, had “ended badly” and caused “a lot of grief”.
He told Newcastle…
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