Former Australian rugby league star Jarryd Hayne is not going to stand trial for a fourth time in the identical rape case, after prosecutors dropped the costs in opposition to him.
The 36-year-old gained an attraction in opposition to his convictions earlier this month.
He has confronted trial for a similar alleged assault 3 times, with the primary ending in a hung jury and the second’s responsible verdict additionally overturned on attraction.
Hayne has persistently denied he attacked the lady – who can’t legally be named – in her bed room in 2018, arguing the pair had consensual intercourse.
One in all Australian rugby league’s most embellished athletes, Hayne additionally had a quick NFL profession within the US.
In an announcement on Tuesday night time, the Workplace of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) stated it might not pursue the case once more, having “fastidiously thought of the various competing elements” and assessing what’s within the “public curiosity”.
“As the explanations for the choice are legally privileged, they won’t be disclosed and the ODPP is not going to remark additional,” the assertion added.
Hayne has collectively spent nearly two years in jail because the authorized saga has unfolded, and his accuser has been compelled to present proof and face prolonged cross-examination a number of occasions.
When handing down their attraction judgment, each judges who upheld Mr Hayne’s attraction stated they believed a fourth trial mustn’t proceed.
In her written causes, Justice Deborah Sweeney stated that in her view it “wouldn’t be within the pursuits of justice”.
Justice Rothman agreed, saying a trial was “unlikely” to happen earlier than the expiry of Mr Hayne’s non-parole interval – and that he has already served most of it anyway.
Nonetheless, each emphasised the way forward for the case was as much as the ODPP.
A former captain of the Parramatta Eels, Mr Hayne twice gained the NRL’s participant of the 12 months award and performed 11 Assessments for Australia.
On the peak of his profession in Australia, in 2015 he joined the NFL within the US with the San Francisco 49ers.
