News by Steve Zemek 8th May 2021 5:59 PM When Jarryd Hayne stepped into the witness box of courtroom 6.1 in the Newcastle Court House on Thursday, he blurted out the words: "I didn't do it." Hayne, once the toast of the sporting world, whose dreams of making it in the NFL captured the imagination of Australia, now sits in prison where he will remain until at least January 2025. During her sentencing remarks, Judge Syme lamented that Hayne's prospects of being rehabilitated while in prison were poor because of his continued denial that he sexually assaulted the woman in her Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in 2018.