Having spent his first night behind bars, convicted sex offender Jarryd Hayne is set to challenge the prison sentence handed down to him on Thursday and has lodged a notice of intention to appeal in the New South Wales supreme court. He was convicted in March of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent for an incident in 2018. In handing down Thursday’s sentence, the Newcastle district court judge Helen Syme said she had to send Hayne to prison because non-consensual sexual intercourse was an extreme form of violence. Syme noted Hayne only stopped attacking the victim when she started to bleed, not when she was telling him no and to stop. “I am now 28 and I am still experiencing devastation, mentally, physically, socially and academically,” the woman said in a victim impact statement.

Source: The Guardian May 07, 2021 03:00 UTC