The jury in Jarryd Hayne's rape trial has returned two guilty verdicts a week after retiring to deliberate.
He had pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of rape after a jury deliberated for more than a week.
Hayne, 35, pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and faced a two-week trial in the NSW District Court. Hayne attended a Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in 2018, when he was in town for a bucks weekend, paying for a taxi to wait outside before driving him to Sydney.
It was alleged he performed non-consensual sex acts on a woman for about 30 seconds, stopping when she began to bleed.Former NRL Player Jarryd Hayne arrives at the John Maddison Tower in Sydney, Monday, 27 March 2023.
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