Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on former NRL star Jarryd Hayne potentially facing fourth trial

Prosecutors are debating whether to send former NRL star Jarryd Hayne to his fourth trial.

Hayne spent a year behind bars after being convicted of sexual assault - and these convictions have since been quashed.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says it's unlikely a fourth trial hill happen, as Hayne is eligible for parole next May.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Murray Old Dotty correspondents with US Now he mus Good afternoon, Heather.
So is there a feeling in Australia that Jared Hayne
is going to have to do this fourth trial?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, it's unprecedented if it gets to the fourth trial
for the same alleged defense. Jared Haynes, of course, the
former rugby league superstar and was convicted of sexually assaulting
a woman in Newcastle in twenty eighteen. The first matter
went to trial, the jury couldn't agree. It was a
hung jury, so that was in twenty eighteen twenty. In

(00:40):
twenty twenty, I Big your pardon. Twenty twenty one goes
to second trial. They found him guilty, but then there
was an appeal. It succeeded on the basis that the
presiding judge gave the jury flawed information, flowed directions. So
the DPP, the Director of Public Prosecutions, decided let's go
to a third trial and again he was found but

(01:00):
then again after a year in jail, an appeal has
succeeded on the basis the presiding judge should have allowed
the female complainant, the woman who alleged that you were
sexually assaulted. The judge should have allowed her to be
cross examined about text messages that were either deleted or undisclosed. Now,
with a fourth trial be held, it's over to the

(01:21):
Director of Public Prosecutions. But it might not get to that, Heather,
because Hayin is eligible for parole in May twenty twenty five,
and they say a new trial is unlikely to get
underway before then.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So that maybe the end of the matter. We just
don't know at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
So he walked out of jail last night. Where'd he go?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm not sure where he went, But you know, he's
got lots of friends in the rugby league industry, and
you know, he's got family and so on, So I'm
not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Where he went. Interesting, you know, it may emerge in
the next next few days.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'm sure you guys are great in the media at
stalking these people are like harrising. I'm keen on it.
I'm looking forward to it. Listen, what's happened with the
unemployment that had suddenly come to.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, down, it's not a huge drop in you know,
it was down to four percent from four point one.
The Bureau of Stats said, there's interesting forty thousand people
found jobs in May, plus the number of unemployed people
actually dropped by nine thousand.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Now here's the thing. Economists are saying.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
The trend quote unquote, the trend unemployment rate that takes
out seasonal volatility and a few other factors actually picked
up slightly. It's now the highest that's been for over
two years. As we're easing out of COVID, those lockdowns
of COVID. Here's another interesting stat In May, nearly forty
two thousand people got full time jobs, but over the

(02:41):
last twelve months in Australia, seventy five percent of people
who have found work are actually getting.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Part time jobs.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Now, what does all this mean for interest rates in
the context of maybe an early election this year. Will
analysts are saying it will maintain the likelihood of a
cut and official interest rates by the Central Bank before
the end of the year. And Anthony albanize he may
be factoring that in must.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Listen what's going on with these two cops who've been
charged with assaulting the ninety two year old.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Ninety two year old man.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
This happened back in late January in south west Sydney,
a senior constable and a constable have turned up in
response to a call about an alleged incident of domestic violence.
They find a ninety two year old man in the home.
We're not one hundred percent sure exactly what's happened. The
police though, were wearing body cameras. But the old fellow,

(03:28):
he has ended up in hospital with a fractured elbow
and major bruising to his head and his arms. The
two police that have in charge with assault occasioning actual
bodily harm. One's also been charged with a separate count
of common assault. And here's the thing. The Police Commissioner
Karen Webs come out this afternoon and said, because both
were wearing body cameras, there's a pretty clear picture of

(03:50):
exactly what's happened here. And she says the you know,
the big question now is going to be was their
excessive force used by the two officers when they took
this fellow with the custody.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
He's ninety two years old. I mean, you could have
blame him with a feather.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
So let's just wait and see one police officers appearing
at court in July.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
The other in August.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Good to talk to you, Mouz. Thank you has always
appreciated this Murray Old's Australia correspondent. For more from Hither
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