Jarryd Hayne’s cellmate revealed to be disgraced NRL player

New details have emerged about the life Jarryd Hayne lives behind bars, including a revelation he shares a cell with a disgraced star.

Jarryd Hayne’s cellmate has been revealed to be disgraced Manly player Manase Fainu.

Hayne’s roommate is one of many new details that have come to light about the former NRL Dally M medallist’s life behind bars.

News Corp first reported Hayne and Fainu have become odd bedfellows at the Geoffrey Pearce Correctional Centre — a minimum-security facility at Berkshire Park.

Fainu was in December jailed for at least four years and three months after he was found guilty of stabbing a youth leader during a violent and bloody brawl outside a Mormon church dance.

Hayne, meanwhile, will spend another two years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at her Newcastle home on the night of the NRL grand final in 2018.

The 35-year-old exclaimed “f**king three years bro, three years” after the sentence was handed down by Judge Graham Turnbull SC earlier this month.

Jarryd Hayne leaving the District Court in Sydney in April. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Hayne had spent four weeks behind bars at Silverwater Correctional Complex having remained on bail for just 10 days, spending his last days of freedom with his family before he was sent to prison.

He has since been transferred to serve his sentence at Berkshire Park in western Sydney after previously being housed at a medium and minimum security facility in Cooma, 400km southwest of Sydney, that houses high-profile criminals.

His new facility has seen him share a room with Fainu. The pair have known each other for years as they previously spent time behind bars and have exchanged letters, according to News Corp.

The request to be housed together is one of a few special freedoms Hayne has been granted at the facility.

Manase Fainu playing with the Sea Eagles in 2019. AAP Image/Brendon Thorne.

He will on Wednesday be able to watch the State of Origin series opener on a TV at the facility, but is only able to watch three NRL games on TV per week because his request for Foxtel has previously been denied.

Foxtel has exclusive rights to all eight games per round and Hayne is only able to watch the three matches that Channel 9 has the rights to.

During his nine months behind bars in Cooma, Hayne learnt how to use a sewing machine and was put to work in the prison’s textile workshop before he was moved to the laundry room.

Hayne was earning $48.96 a week to wash his fellow inmates’ sheets over 42 hours a week – a vast fall from the $1.2m he made playing for the Gold Coast Titans.

Hayne was transferred to Cooma after he was initially housed at Parklea, where he was pelted with apples after inmates recognised who he was.