The state’s top court has quashed Jarryd Hayne’s sexual assault convictions but left the door open to the former footballer standing trial for a fourth time.
In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal upheld Hayne’s appeal and ordered a new trial. It is up to the state’s top prosecutor to decide if there will be a further trial.
Hayne, 36, was found guilty at a third trial last year of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, relating to oral sex and the digital penetration of a 26-year-old woman in her Newcastle home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.
He was charged in November 2018.
