{"id":25022,"date":"2023-04-04T06:59:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T10:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=25022"},"modified":"2023-04-04T06:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T10:59:05","slug":"australian-rugby-and-nfl-star-jarryd-hayne-guilty-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/04\/04\/australian-rugby-and-nfl-star-jarryd-hayne-guilty-of-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian rugby and NFL star Jarryd Hayne guilty of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Australian Rugby League star Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of raping a woman in 2018.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is the third time Hayne has faced trial for the same case, with the first ending in a hung jury and the second’s guilty verdict overturned on appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 35-year-old has consistently denied he attacked the woman in her bedroom, leaving her with injuries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hayne is one of Australian rugby league’s most decorated athletes, and also had a brief NFL career in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He will be sentenced at a later date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Over 11 days in March, a jury in the New South Wales District Court was played hours of recorded evidence from witnesses including Hayne, the complainant, her family and police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The court heard the pair had chatted on social media for two weeks before Hayne stopped at the woman’s house in Newcastle – about two hours north of Sydney – after a bachelor party on 30 September 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The woman told Hayne she did not want to have sex with him after she realised he’d left a taxi waiting outside, prosecutors had argued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hayne assaulted her despite the woman saying “no” and “stop”, they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But the former National Rugby League (NRL) player insisted all sexual activity was consensual and that the injuries had been accidental.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hayne shook his head and his wife cried as the jury on Tuesday – after six days of deliberation – delivered their guilty verdict on two counts of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The verdict ends a five-year legal battle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hayne first faced trial in 2020 but the jury was unable to reach an unanimous verdict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A second trial in 2021 resulted in a guilty verdict but the player appealed. He argued the jury had been given “flawed” directions and that there had been an error in a pre-trial ruling on evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The player spent nine months in jail before a judge threw out his conviction and ordered a third trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hayne was one of the NRL’s most high-profile athletes and twice won the player of the year award. He played 11 Tests for Australia, helping them to win the 2013 World Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the height of his NRL career, in 2015 he joined the NFL in the US with the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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