Jarryd Hayne has had his sexual assault conviction quashed on
appeal and a retrial has been ordered.
The former football star was convicted last year of two counts
of
sexual intercourse without consent, which is also known as
sexual assault.
The jury in his second trial returned a guilty verdict after the
first trial ended in a hung jury. The jury in the first trial,
which was finalised in December 2020, could not reach a final
verdict.
My Hayne has been
serving a sentence of five years and nine months, with a
non-parole period of three years and eight months, at
Cooma Correctional Centre in New South Wales.
He has steadfastly maintained his innocence, saying that the
encounter was consensual, and that it ended after the woman became
injured during sexual activity and her genitals began bleeding.
