Hayne wins appeal and to face a third trial

Former NRL and Fiji Bati superstar Jarryd Hayne has had his sexual assault conviction overturned and is set to face a third trial.

Foxsports reports the Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed his conviction after he last year applied to the state’s highest court.

The 33-year-old had been in jail for over nine months having been sentenced to at least three years and nine months in prison for the alleged sexual assault of a woman in her Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in 2018.

A District Court jury in March last year found Hayne guilty of two counts of sexual assault.

He was subsequently sentenced five years and nine months jail, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.

[Source: Foxsports]