Content warning: This story contains references to sexual assault.
Ex-NRL player and convicted sex offender Jarryd Hayne has given notice he intends to appeal his imprisonment on sexual assault charges.
Hayne s legal team on Friday lodged a Notice of Intention to appeal in the NSW Supreme Court. He was jailed on Thursday for sexually assaulting a young woman who said the former footballer destroyed her life.
His legal team now has 12 months to lodge a formal appeal.
The ex-Parramatta player was in March convicted of attacking the woman in her NSW Hunter bedroom on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final and forcibly performing oral and digital sexual intercourse on her.
Crime 7th May 2021 10:24 AM Â Jarryd Hayne could spend five years behind bars, but for the woman he raped in 2018, the consequences of that September night in 2018 will stay with her forever. The now 28-year-old told the Newcastle District Court that although she was destroyed and damaged by the September 2018 assault, she was still standing and Hayne s conviction would help her heal from the trauma. Hayne was found guilty of performing oral and digital sex without the woman s consent at her home in Fletcher in September 2018. He was sentenced to five years and nine months behind bars, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months.
The woman raped by NRL star Jarryd Hayne has revealed the devastating impact the assault had on her life, saying she’s “spent countless hours feeling violated”.
Crime by Tyson Otto 7th May 2021 5:45 AM After 100 days of marriage hell, Jarryd Hayne s wife, Amellia Bonnici, is still standing by her man as she confronts the reality of life without her partner. Their private relationship will now face its greatest test after the former NRL star was on Thursday sentenced to at least three years and eight months in jail after being found guilty of sexual assault. It leaves Bonnici alone to raise their four-year-old daughter, Beliviah Ivy, born in December, 2016. Bonnici was among Hayne s supporters inside the Newcastle District Court on Thursday and watched on as her husband s victim, 26-years-old at the time of the offence, deliver a victim impact statement in which she detailed how the assault had fundamentally changed her life, saying the assault left her feeling dirty and violated .
Crime by Tyson Otto 7th May 2021 5:45 AM After 100 days of marriage hell, Jarryd Hayne s wife, Amellia Bonnici, is still standing by her man as she confronts the reality of life without her partner. Their private relationship will now face its greatest test after the former NRL star was on Thursday sentenced to at least three years and eight months in jail after being found guilty of sexual assault. It leaves Bonnici alone to raise their four-year-old daughter, Beliviah Ivy, born in December, 2016. Bonnici was among Hayne s supporters inside the Newcastle District Court on Thursday and watched on as her husband s victim, 26-years-old at the time of the offence, deliver a victim impact statement in which she detailed how the assault had fundamentally changed her life, saying the assault left her feeling dirty and violated .