Former Fiji Bati and NRL star Jarryd Hayne has been taken back into jail after his bail was revoked today.
Hayne was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at her Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in September 2018.
He was convicted by a jury and is waiting to learn his jail term.
The 35-year-old last week walked out of Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on conditional bail before he faces sentencing proceedings in less than four weeks.
However, the Director of Public Prosecutions made a Supreme Court detention application to immediately place him behind bars, reports Fox Sports.
Hayne and his lawyers arrived at the Supreme Court today to fight the application before Justice Richard Button, who agreed to the Crown prosecution’s detention application and ordered that Hayne be taken into custody immediately.
Hayne was emotionless throughout the two hour and 45-minute hearing but he became emotional as he embraced his wife Amellia Bonnici.
The first application to detain Hayne was made in the District Court and successfully opposed by his barrister Margaret Cunneen SC.
Judge Turnbull allowed Hayne to remain on bail to help his family get sorted before sentence proceedings on 8 May.
In the Supreme Court today, Ms Cunneen argued that Hayne should remain on bail because of a combination of factors including that he faced “oppressive” conditions in protective custody if he were taken to jail immediately.
Hayne will face sentence proceedings in less than four weeks where is expected to be taken into custody.
Hayne has twice been found guilty by a jury.
Following his first guilty verdict, he spent nine months in jail before he last year had his previous conviction quashed on appeal.
He is once again expected to appeal his latest conviction in the Court of Appeal and continues to maintain his innocence.
