Judge Turnbull asked Ms Bonnici if her children had been photographed by media without her consent this week and she agreed. She said they were aged six, three and one.Īsked if they were aware of being photographed, Ms Bonnici said her oldest child was 'beside herself this morning'. Ms Bonnici put her head on one hand as she sat in the witness box. Jarryd Hayne and wife Amellia Bonnici arrive at the NSW District Court where a judge heard an application from the Crown to jail the disgraced footy star, after he was found guilty of rape His wife's tears are unlikely to sway Judge Turnbull from sending Hayne to prison, with the judge telling the court that bail 'must' be refused when an accused person is due to be sentenced to full-time custody. Hayne has been out on bail since he was found guilty of two counts of rape by a jury on Tuesday. The court heard Hayne had been attacked in a prison yard previously, including by an inmate who had thrown fruit at him. Ms Cunneen said Hayne ‘would be a target in the general prison population’ and Hayne ‘would be regarded as a sex offender’ in prison. When asked for the reasons why her husband should not be jailed, Ms Bonnici said: 'I can't even put that into words.' A statement by her was filed to the court by Hayne's lawyer, Margaret Cunneen SC. She said Hayne's family had given her minimal support but agreed she had a strong relationship with his mother Jodie. Questioned by Crown prosecutor John Sfinas about family support, she said Haynes family didn't live in Sydney but on the Central Coast - but that they were less supportive than her own family. She told the court that Hayne's family had not been around to help with the practicalities of looking after her and the star's three children. Ms Bonnici told the court that she and Hayne were married in 2021 and broke down when she was asked if they had three children. 'Yes we do,' she said, sobbing. When he decided to grant Hayne a bail extension, Judge Turnbull said there were particular 'health conditions' Ms Bonnici was facing in the present time. Ms Bonnici broke down and wept as she addressed the court earlier, with it also revealed in court that Hayne and his wife have been bombarded with threatening messages, including to her personal Facebook page. Hayne's shock win of five extra weeks comes after a manager from Parklea Correctional Centre, Geraint Roberts, told the court that Hayne would likely be classified as a non-association inmate if he was locked up today - which meant being in maximum security. It’s not enough to chase these dreams of peace.Ms Bonnici and Hayne were escorted into the Downing Centre court complex by several NSW Police officers It’s not enough to see, it’s not enough to believe, It’s not enough to see it’s not enough to believe I’m just a songwriter who’s chosen to take this particular subject matter very seriously. I am not a conspiracy theorist or a fatalist. My intent is to share and to deal with the things that frighten me, in an artistic way, as a citizen of the modern world, in hopes of comforting others who suffer from the same fears. Let me say right now that it’s not my place to criticize anyone’s past decisions or heroic actions, and that’s not my intent here. I’m concerned that I may get a little bit of hate for posting this piece, most likely from people who still don’t recognize climate change as reality, or who’d rather I not suggest that our kind has not done the best we could have done throughout history. Someone recently said to me that the earth is not in danger, we are in danger. I’m hoping to post a quick acoustic video as well, even though the arrangement for this song in my head is heavily electronic. I don’t usually write songs that frighten me, but this one is the essence of turning one of your nightmares (one that isn’t necessarily far fetched, to be exact) into art. At least obsessed enough to write a new song almost immediately. I did not actually know that the Doomsday Clock was a thing. The realities of global climate change, proliferation of nuclear weapons, and tech problems such as hacking of government entities prompted the new setting, or so I have read. I remembered it Thursday evening when my partner told me the Doomsday Clock had been set to 11:57 (as in PM, with Midnight being crisis o’clock for humankind) by its keepers, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It’s been several months, and I had forgotten about it. This was precisely the content of the last bad dream that I had. It’s about getting nuked, and not being able to hold my loved ones tightly to me as it happens. Turns out that when I have a nightmare, it’s not about giant robots or giant sea monster dinosaur leviathan kaiju, a la Pacific Rim. If you’re already having a crummy day, come back to this later. Potential trigger warning for nuclear holocaust, PTSD, and bad dreams.
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