The former NRL player is found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne has been sentenced to four years and nine months in jail after a jury found he sexually assaulted a woman at her Newcastle home in 2018.Judge Graham Turnbull told Sydney's Downing Court Hayne's offending was "below mid-range" and he had a "seemingly low risk of reoffending".
Hayne has faced three trials over the assault, with the first ending in a hung jury and the guilty verdict of the second quashed.Hayne being taken into custody in April this year.The charges reflected two forms of sexual activity – oral and digital penetration – which took place on the weekend of the 2018 NRL grand final.
Hayne had been in Newcastle for a friend's bucks party and caught a taxi to the woman's home on his way back to Sydney.Hayne served nine months of his previous sentence at Cooma Correctional Centre before his convictions were quashed and he was granted bail in February last year.
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