Found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, what came before for the former NRL star is now more cautionary tale than achievement
Cue the cliches about the “Hayne Plane” crash landing. About lofty heights and rarified air and falls from grace. Jarryd Hayne has been many things over the past 15 years and now he is a convicted criminal, guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent.
Long gone are the days when Hayne was an enigmatic specimen many fans did not understand, but all wanted to copy. A Hillsong celebrity who in 2016 partied with an alleged Hells Angels bikie and, just as he had finished Snapchatting his “cash money fam, cash money, give me a fucking cigarette” video, fell victim to a pornography mishap at a high school.
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