Jarryd Hayne Jailed For 4 Years 9 Months

Jarryd Hayne has been jailed for a maximum of four years and nine months for sexually assaulting a woman in her Newcastle home, but the former NRL player could be re­leased in two years due to time already served.

Hayne was found guilty after a third trial on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent relating to non-consensual oral sex and the digital penetration of a 26-year-old woman on the night of the NRL grand final in 2018.

The 35-year-old appeared via video link in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Friday, with a shaved beard and in a prison green T-shirt, for his sentence before Judge Graham Turnbull.

The judge said Hayne, knowing the woman was not consent­ing, “overwhelmed her in an inherently unequal context and an indulgence of physical power to achieve some sexual grati­fication”.

Turnbull set a maximum term of four years and nine months’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of three years.

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