JARRYD Hayne's sexual prowess was "terrible" and he is guilty of being "bad" at sex.
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But if a woman had not bled profusely from a laceration to her genitalia during his visit to her home then there would have been no allegation of sexual assault made against the former NRL star, a jury has heard.
Defence barrister Phillip Boulten, SC, on Thursday finished delivering his closing address in Mr Hayne's rape trial, saying Mr Hayne had "stuck solid" in his evidence and created enough reasonable doubt about what happened in the woman's bedroom at Fletcher on the night of the NRL grand final for the jury to acquit him.
Mr Hayne, now 32, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent and inflict actual bodily harm and is in the second week of a trial in Newcastle District Court.
After listening to nearly two weeks of evidence and submissions, the jury retired to begin determining Mr Hayne's fate about 1pm on Thursday.
The woman gave evidence last week that the pair had struck up a flirtatious relationship on social media before arranging to meet at her house at Fletcher on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.
Mr Hayne had been in Newcastle that weekend for a two-day bucks party for a fellow rugby league player.
After an awkward interaction in her bedroom, during which Mr Hayne serenaded her with Ed Sheeran covers, the woman became aware that Mr Hayne had kept a taxi waiting outside to continue driving him back to Sydney.
The woman says that after realising he wasn't planning on staying long and was just after sex, she resolved not to have any sexual interaction with him.
But she claims he forced himself on her on her bed, tried to kiss her and then pulled off her pants before engaging in two sexual acts that left blood on her bed and Mr Hayne's face.
The woman has said she repeatedly told Mr Hayne "no" and "I don't want to", a claim Mr Hayne has denied.
Mr Boulten spent his closing address seeking to pick apart the prosecution case against Mr Hayne, focusing on a conversation the alleged victim had with a woman on the night of Mr Hayne's visit, where "she said nothing about being sexually assaulted".
"She said he kept the taxi waiting while he went down on her but nothing about anything happening against her will," Mr Boulten said.
Mr Boulten said the alleged victim had also deleted text messages from Mr Hayne and labelled the woman's excuse that she got rid of them to free up data as "not an adequate explanation".
Mr Boulten said Mr Hayne's version of what happened was consistent with what he told Newcastle Knight Mitchell Pearce in a recorded phone call in November, 2018.
"Jarryd Hayne stuck solid in his evidence," Mr Boulten said.
"He told you exactly what happened, in his own way. He wasn't moved. He wasn't shaken. He crossed through that test with flying colours. You don't have to accept everything that he says, but it sure is enough in my submission to leave you in a state of uncertainty about exactly what happened when he went back into that room that day.
"It is my submission to you that there is a strong contradictory body of evidence. Different from [the woman's] evidence, her word is contradicted.
"There is no independent evidence about what happened in that room. No video, scientific evidence, there is no police trap evidence, listening device evidence, that contradicts what Jarryd Hayne has said.
"I urge you to a conclusion that the evidence is such that you're left with a reasonable doubt, at least, about what happened.".
On Wednesday, Crown prosecutor Brian Costello told the jury the woman's version of what happened - which he said might be even worse on Mr Hayne's account - showed that Mr Hayne had "no reasonable grounds" to believe the woman was consenting to any sexual activity.
Mr Costello said Mr Hayne's attitude towards the woman, picked up in a telephone intercept about six weeks after the alleged attack, was consistent with how the woman says he behaved on the night.
"Just some silly young cow who messaged him off Instagram," Mr Costello said, a reference to what Mr Hayne had said. "When that silly young cow said no to him after he left the grand final and the bucks party he simply ignored her wishes and got what he came there for by being forceful and rough. "The only thing that stopped that sexual activity when it did was the fact that he was so rough that he caused her to bleed significantly."
Mr Costello said the woman was honest and open throughout the entire episode; from the lead-up to meeting Mr Hayne to her evidence in the witness box.
And he said the jury would accept her evidence, and reject Mr Hayne's evidence as "unreliable or dishonest".