00:00 Former NRL player Jared Hain has had his rape convictions quashed after a successful appeal.
00:06 The 36-year-old spent a year behind bars after he was found guilty of two counts of sexual
00:12 intercourse without consent in 2023.
00:15 Hain was accused of raping a woman at her home in Newcastle on grand final night in
00:19 2018.
00:20 The New South Wales Court overturned his convictions based on two grounds, that the judge did not
00:26 allow further cross-examination of the complainant and did not properly direct the jury.
00:33 Three separate criminal trials were told the woman changed her mind about having sex with
00:37 Hain after seeing he had a taxi waiting outside her house.
00:41 Hain's defence team argued that the woman deleted messages that demonstrated she had
00:46 initially shown a sexual interest in him.
00:48 A new trial has been ordered, which would be Hain's fourth, but whether it goes ahead
00:53 is up to prosecutors.
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