Awaiting judgment day: Jarryd Hayne faces an ‘inevitable’ jail sentence when he appears in the District Court again in May, Judge Helen Syme saidThe jury that found Jarryd Hayne guilty of rape were shown pages of messages between him and his victim .The Instagram, text and Snapchat messages are contained in court documents and are at the centre of the case against the footballer, 33 – who is likely to be jailed when he returns to court to be sentenced in May.One batch of messages shows how Hayne and the victim, then 26, flirted for weeks on Instagram before he assaulted her at her home near Newcastle on September 30, 2018. In the messages, Hayne asks the woman to send him selfies and quips ‘how steamy’ after she confesses to thinking about having sex with him. But what seemed to have been the foundation for a consensual encounter took a turn when Hayne came to the woman’s house on the outskirts of Newcastle and left his taxi running out the front. In text to a loved one, the victim describes how she stopped wanting to have sex with him after learning about the cab waiting outside to take him back to Sydney.She recounts…
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