Jarryd Hayne setting into life as a father as he await retrial decision

While Jarryd Hayne is facing another six weeks of limbo, he’s making the most of his time with his family and friends, settling back into dad life.

While Jarryd Hayne is facing another six weeks of limbo, he’s making the most of his time with his family and friends, settling back into dad life.

The former NRL star is facing an agonising wait for his next court date, July 26, when it is expected the DPP will announce whether it plans to force him to face a fourth trial.

Legal experts are tipping the DPP won’t run the case against him a fourth time, particularly because he had less than a year left to serve out of his jail term.

“There’s not much point in running a whole trial again just to get him locked up again for less than a year,” one source said.

On Friday morning 36-year-old Hayne was seen greeting neighbours and friends who visited his Merrylands home.

Jarryd Hayne outside his Merryland house. Picture: Thomas Parrish

Hayne greets a neighbour. Picture: Thomas Parrish

He hugged a neighbour and gave a thumbs up to another resident driving by as they tooted and waved to the ex-Parramatta fullback.

Hayne travelled with his wife and children to Greystanes Community Centre, where he spent an hour before heading to the shopping centre at Merryvale.

Witnesses say Hayne appears to be trying to settle back into regular family life. Picture: Thomas Parrish

One witness said it looked like the fallen hero was trying to have a “regular day settling into dad life”.

Hayne’s wife is the subject of a court order which prevents publication of any pictures taken of her since the NRL star was jailed for rape.

Waving to a neighbour. Picture: Thomas Parrish

A court order prevents his wife or her children being pictured. Picture: Thomas Parrish

The order stops all media outlets from running photographs of Amellia Bonnici or her children which were shot anytime from May 12 last year and has no expiry date.

Hayne was released this week after NSW’s highest court – the Court of Criminal Appeal – sensationally quashed his convictions after he was jailed for sexually assaulting a woman at her home in Newcastle in September 2018.

Hayne was found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent by a jury after he faced a third jury trial last year.

He was jailed for a maximum of four years and nine months.

Mr Hayne has persistently and vehemently denied the allegations against him and successfully sought to quash his convictions in the Court of Criminal Appeal.

It was the second time he had successfully appealed his conviction – having done so in 2022 after his second trial.

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