A woman who has accused former NRL player Jarryd Hayne of raping her at Fletcher rejected his invitations for her to visit him while he was in Newcastle at a bucks' party the weekend of the alleged assaults, a court has heard.
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Hayne, 32, was being cross examined on the sixth day of a trial in Newcastle District Court on Monday over two charges of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent recklessly inflicting actual bodily harm.
He has pleaded not guilty to both counts.
It comes after a woman - who cannot be named - accused Hayne of raping her using his finger and his mouth at Fletcher on the night of the 2018 NRL Grand Final.
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During cross examination, Hayne agreed that he had invited the woman to join him during a two-day bucks' party in the Hunter the weekend of the alleged incident, but she refused - instead suggesting the pair could meet for coffee or breakfast and that he was welcome to invite a friend along.
Crown prosecutor Brian Costello put it to Hayne that the woman had knocked back his invitation on the Saturday - Hayne agreed - as well as the Sunday - Hayne saying "I might have".
Mr Costello suggested to Hayne that the woman was "cautious" about meeting with the NRL star, Hayne said he believed she refused the invitation because he was at a bucks' party.
Hayne agreed that the issue of the woman's consent to sexual activity was "up in the air" at the point he was in a taxi on the way to meet her at a Fletcher home on September 30,2018.
When Mr Costello put it to Hayne that messages from the woman in the days and weeks before suggested it was a "promising sign" she may consent to sexual activity but that they did not constitute consent itself, Hayne agreed.
And when Mr Costello asked Hayne if there was any confusion or "mixed signals" the night of the alleged assaults, Mr Hayne said there was not and that he would have ceased the sexual activity if the woman told him to do so.
Hayne denies the woman told him to stop, saying in court "she never said no".