The Snitch: Will Jarryd Hayne engage appeal lawyer Tim Game again

The legal world is abuzz with talk of who Jarryd Hayne might hire to launch an appeal against his second rape conviction. Legal column The Snitch has the inside word.

So ex-NRL star Jarryd Hayne has been locked up ahead of his sentencing after he was convicted of rape for a second time.

But it’s not the end of the road for Hayne has he has said he intends to appeal the conviction. But the next question is which lawyers he will employ to do the appeal.

A handcuffed Jarryd Hayne on his way back to prison. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

We’ve heard the name of appeals specialist Tim Game SC being thrown around.

Game was the barrister who won Hayne’s last appeal on a legal argument that the trial judge Helen Syme misdirected the jury that was hearing the case.

Stay tuned.

SYDNEY CRIME FIGURE GOING TO JAIL - JUST LIKE DAD

It’s a case of like father like son for one of Sydney’s most colourful families.

This week, one-time Dural resident Jabour Lahood was revealed to have been found guilty in the Supreme Court of Western Australia over a billion-dollar ice importation plot that was one of the biggest in Australia’s history.

Lahood was one of the leading figures in the syndicate of eight people who conspired to smuggle 1.2 tonnes of high-purity meth hidden inside rice sacks on board a boat known as the Valkoista to a Geraldton Jetty in 2017.

The only problem was the cops were waiting nearby for the boat to dock and arrested everyone on the spot.

The Perth-based court removed a non-publication order on Lahood’s identity after the eighth and final court case related to the import ended this week.

Over one tonne of meth was hidden in rice sacks. Picture: Australian Federal Police

All eight are looking at lengthy jail terms thanks to WA’s harsh sentencing on drug cases. Or as one Sydney lawyer put it: “They’re gone. They don’t f. k around in Perth.”

Keen watchers of Sydney’s crime scene would know that Lahood is the son of one time drug boss Harry Lahood.

Lahood Sr was 44 in 1986 when he was sentenced to 24 years jail over a 1983 plot to smuggle $2.5m of cannabis resin into Australia.

The plot involved corrupt cop John Dougan who was sentenced to 18 years while Lahood Sr was described by the judge as the “mastermind” who had “cynically, deliberately and greedily” taken profit from the drug smuggled from Pakistan.

While his case was going through court, Jabour sold his $5m Dural mansion.

His sister, Jamelie Lahood, is the former madam of the high-profile Stiletto brothel in Camperdown and is not accused of any wrongdoing.

BAD DAY

If you think you’re having a bad day, perhaps compare your plight to Auburn man Adi Syahir Bin Supian.

A court this week was told Supian’s wife sent him on a 16-hour round trip to Tamworth on a scooter that gets the death wobbles over 50km/h to be interviewed for a job he was never going to get and then cheated on him while he was away.

Adding to the situation, Supian was charged with breaking into the man’s house when he got back off the road and intimidating his wife and the two men in the house.

He was also charged with assaulting the two men.

He pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre District Court to the charges that carry a standard non-parole period of five years and a maximum penalty of 20 years.

Speaking outside of court, his lawyer Stephen Alexander said: “When pride and love battles with desire, hide your heart because you’re playing with fire.”

The court heard the saga began at a time when Supian’s wife was cheating on him, but he still wanted to reconcile. She gave him the ultimatum that he had to travel to Tamworth for a job interview in an abattoir. So on April 24, 2022, Supian hit the road on his scooter.

After eight excruciating hours of dodging B-doubles on the highway, he finally pulled off at the Tamworth exit. He told the court he arrived at the job interview on April 26 only to be told he shouldn‘t have bothered because he did not have the required vaccinations to work there.

At 5pm, Supian got back on the scooter and hit the highway back to Sydney.

He arrived at his Auburn home about 1am and told the court his wife wasn’t home. The court then heard he rode his scooter to the nearby home of his wife’s lover and found her there.

The court heard Supian ripped the flyscreen off the front of the home before intimidating his wife, her lover and another man inside. He was charged with aggravated break and enter to cause intimidation and two counts of assault.

He also spent five months behind bars before being granted bail. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Judge Mark Williams on Friday.

After hearing the evidence, the judge let Supian go home and gave him an 11-month intensive corrections order.