In Jarryd Hayne's barrister's closing address, she referred to him as a “star sportsman” and an “outstanding sportsman who had hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram, and no criminal record.” That has changed now.
As courtroom 8A of Sydney’s John Maddison Tower convened on Tuesday afternoon, the judge overseeing Jarryd Hayne’s third sexual assault trial said he had “heard nothing” more from the jury.
Armed with an all-female legal team comprising Cunneen, barrister Claire O’Neill and solicitor Lauren MacDougall, Hayne unsuccessfully attempted to clear his name at his third trial on sexual assault charges dating back to the night of the 2018 NRL grand final. Shoulder to shoulder, and spreading jackets across seats to save them, more than a dozen family and friends including Hayne’s wife, mother Jodie Hayne and father Manoa Thompson filled two rows behind the 35-year-old.
The court heard that on the night of the sexual assault, the then-Parramatta Eels player had caught the end of the grand final between the Roosters and the Storm.Advertisement Jarryd Hayne leaving court with his wife Amellia Bonnici after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in 2018.“I had two teammates I’d played with – James Tedesco and Boyd Cordner – and I know at the start of that year Teddy went through a lot.
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