Disgraced former NRL star Jarryd Hayne will face court in November to appeal against his conviction for sexually assaulting a woman in her Newcastle home.
Hayne, 33, was convicted in March of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent after he assaulted the woman, then aged 26, with his hands and mouth and left her bleeding from the genitals in September 2018.
Jarryd Hayne will appeal his sexual assault conviction in November. Credit:Getty
He was jailed in May for five years and nine months, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.
On Thursday, Hayne’s lawyer Penny Musgrave told the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal the conviction appeal had an estimate of two to three hours and all material had been filed.
She noted November 29 was available for the hearing, which was listed by registrar George Galanis.
Asked whether Hayne wished to be present via video link, Ms Musgrave replied: “Yes, he does, registrar.”
The case will next be mentioned in court on October 28.
Upon sentencing, NSW District Court Judge Helen Syme said Hayne “does not accept that he did anything wrong, and for reasons best known to himself cannot accept the decision of the jury” who found him guilty.
She said he was “fully aware that the victim was not consenting and went ahead anyway” when the woman had “every right to feel safe from attack in the privacy of her own home”.
The Court found that Hayne had been chatting to the woman on social media for almost two weeks, but they had never met – until the evening of September 30, when he took a taxi to her house on his way back to Sydney from a buck’s party weekend in Newcastle.
Hayne played the woman several songs on a laptop, including the Ed Sheeran cover of Wonderwall, before the woman heard the beep of a horn and discovered he had left his taxi waiting.
The ex-Parramatta Eels fullback went outside to placate the driver, returned inside and watched several minutes of NRL grand final coverage with the woman’s mother, then went to her bedroom where he began to touch and kiss her.
The woman was not interested in sexual contact with Hayne after discovering the taxi, and said to him, “what do you think you’re doing, there’s no way I’m going to touch you”. Hayne persisted, removing the woman’s jeans and assaulting her despite her protests of “no”.
In a victim impact statement, the woman said she was destroyed and damaged by what Hayne did, but “I’m still standing”.
“I felt dirty and violated. He made me feel like an object and was looking straight through me,” the woman said.
Hayne maintained he “didn’t do it” and claimed “what the law says, you’re innocent until you’re proven guilty, I was never afforded that”.
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Sarah McPhee is a breaking news reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Georgina Mitchell is a court reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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