00:00Former NRL player Jared Hain has had his rape convictions quashed after a successful appeal.
00:06The 36-year-old spent a year behind bars after he was found guilty of two counts of sexual
00:12intercourse without consent in 2023. Hain was accused of raping a woman at her home
00:17in Newcastle on grand final night in 2018. The New South Wales Court overturned his convictions
00:24based on two grounds, that the judge did not allow further cross-examination of the complainant
00:29and did not properly direct the jury. Three separate criminal trials were told the woman
00:35changed her mind about having sex with Hain after seeing he had a taxi waiting outside
00:40her house. Hain's defence team argued that the woman deleted messages that demonstrated
00:45she had initially shown a sexual interest in him. A new trial has been ordered, which
00:50would be Hain's fourth, but whether it goes ahead is up to prosecutors.
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