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The 35-year-old disgraced former NRL star will be sentenced on Friday.
Lawyers for the Crown and Hayne are making pre-sentence submissions to the judge on Monday.
The woman he sexually assaulted with his hands and mouth at her home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final cannot be identified.
A taxi Hayne paid $550 to drive him to Sydney following a bucks weekend waited outside the suburban Newcastle home while he played the woman songs on a laptop and watched the end of the grand final as her mother sat in the living room.
Following the assault, the pair cleaned blood off themselves in her ensuite and Hayne continued to Sydney, his trial heard.
Hayne previously spent more than nine months in custody before an earlier guilty verdict was overturned on appeal, requiring another trial.
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The trial beginning in March was Hayne’s third on charges laid in November 2018.
The jury in the first trial was discharged after being unable to reach a verdict.
NSW District Court Judge Graham Turnbull confirmed he would sentence Hayne on Friday.
Hayne played most of his 214 NRL games for the Parramatta Eels as well as representing Australia and Fiji.
He played 23 State of Origin matches, including NSW’s 2014 drought-breaking series win, the same year he won his second Dally M medal.
Support is available from the National Sexual Assault and Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).
