Ex-NRL player Jarryd Hayne set to face retrial after successful appeal

Former NRL star, Jarryd Hayne is set to face a third trial over sexual assault allegations, after having his convictions quashed on appeal.

Hayne successfully appealed his convictions in the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal in February, which resulted from his second trial.

Whilst his first trial resulted in a hung jury, his second led to him being found guilty and sentenced to five years and nine months imprisonment, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.

The convictions resulting from the second trial were overturned after his legal team were able to successfully argue two appeal grounds.

One of the successful appeal grounds was that the Judge, Justice Helen Syme gave the jury "profoundly wrong" legal directions, with his legal team submitting they that were "flawed in almost every possible way".