Accuser blasts Hayne in court

THE woman who accused ex-NRL star Jarryd Hayne of sexual assault has called him a “f&*%$g piece of shit” in court after breaking down in the witness box during cross-examination.

She snapped at Hayne when she passed the table where he was seated as she left the courtroom on Wednesday.

The judge halted the woman’s evidence after she became emotional under gruelling interrogation from the footballer’s barrister, Phillip Boulten SC.

She claimed the lawyer was asking “irrelevant” questions.

“You’re making me sound stupid. No means f&*%$g no!” she said furiously, before burying her face in her hands as tears began to flow.

“I sound like an idiot but he f&*%$g knows what I said.”

Newcastle District Court had heard the woman, then 26, was told by a doctor the gruesome injury to her genitalia suffered during the alleged rape in her bedroom on September 30, 2018, looked like a “bite”.

Hayne, 32, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent recklessly inflicting actual bodily harm.

The woman suffered two lacerations to her vagina when former Parramatta Eels fullback allegedly pulled off her jeans and began allegedly unwanted oral and digital sex on her, while a taxi he arrived in waited outside.

On Wednesday, Dr Susannah Smart told the court she examined the woman in a pap smear days before the alleged incident and noticed no injuries, but when she saw her again on October 3 noticed injuries that could have been caused by “rough sexual activity”.

The court has heard Hayne came to her house because she declined his invitation to come to a buck’s party he was attending in Newcastle that weekend. He had asked her to “bring a friend”.

When he arrived he appeared to be “very intoxicated”, she said, and they went straight into her room because she was “embarrassed” about still living with her mother.

Earlier the court heard the woman had told a friend the day after the incident that she was “too scared” to report it.

“He would have the money to ruin me … the last thing I need is my life in the public eye,” she wrote.

She had recently suffered from significant health issues and was worried her wound would become infected, which led her to see a doctor on October 3.

The woman later spoke to the NRL Integrity Unit’s chief investigator Karyn Murphy after her brotherin-law contacted a journalist, and the matter was then referred to police.

The trial continues.