Picture shows disgraced footy star as he’s jailed for rape

A picture has captured the convicted rapist’s final moments before he learned his fate and exploded in court.

A court sketch has captured Jarryd Hayne moments before he was sent back to prison for the rape of a woman at her Newcastle home on the night of the NRL grand final in 2018.

The 35-year-old sat in his prison greens in a suite at Silverwater Correction Centre watching via audiovisual link as Judge Graham Turnbull SC took almost two hours to hand down sentence.

The final picture of Hayne shows how he sat stoically, showing no emotion until the very end when he thought the feed to the court was cut and he exploded, saying “f**king three years bro, three years”.

Hayne remained on bail for just 10 days after he was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault without consent by a NSW District Court jury on April 4.

A court sketch artist captured Hayne in the final moments before he was jailed.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Vincent de Gouw

But he has already spent the past four weeks behind bars after he was taken into custody during a Supreme Court bail hearing on April 14.

It will now extend to May 2025, with Judge Turnbull sentencing Hayne to a maximum aggregate sentence of four years and nine months.

Hayne must serve a non parole period of three years, but it was backdated to May 7, 2022, meaning he will be eligible for parole on May 6, 2025.

Judge Turnbull said Hayne had overwhelmed the victim in an “inherently unequal context” with an “indulgence of physical power to achieve some sexual gratification”.

“His preparedness to utilise ultimately the complainant as some kind of sexual object is a matter of significance in the manner in which he went about committing this offence,” the judge said.

Judge Turnbull told the court Hayne is a “completely different man” to the person who committed the offences.

Jarryd Hayne was sentenced to a maximum of four years and nine months imprisonment. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Simon Bullard

“People are going to be left to suffer as a result of him being taken from them,” he said.

“He is going to be doing his time in a difficult environment.”

He told the court his remarks on sentence should not “obscure the fact there was a young woman who was dealt with criminally by the offender”.

The judge said Hayne had maintained his innocence and did not express any contrition or remorse.

He said the victim had “endeavoured to stand up for herself” and bring Hayne to the attention of the authorities.

“The complainant has not been passive in the face of adversity, her generosity in feeling for others when that night her feelings were disregarded,” the judge said.

He spent just ten days on bail after the verdict. Picture: NCA Newswire / Christian Gilles

“She should carry no blame, she should in no way feel unclean and she should feel safe as all complainants should feel safe.”

“Quite frankly through her own efforts she has brought this offender to justice.”

After five years, three trials, an appeal and nine months in prison, Hayne was in April found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at her Newcastle home in 2018.

It was the third time Hayne faced a trial over the same incident, and the second time he was found guilty.

While he claims the sexual encounter was entirely consensual, the jury accepted the woman’s version of events that she repeatedly said “no” and ”stop”.

The jury was told the woman refused to consent to sex because the ex-Parramatta fullback had a taxi waiting outside.

Hayne’s lawyers have indicated they plan to appeal the verdict.

Originally published as Picture shows disgraced footy star as he’s jailed for rape