D-day arrives for Jarryd Hayne

FORMER NRL star Jarryd Hayne will on Monday learn his fate as he fights to have his rape conviction quashed and be freed from prison.

Hayne (inset), 33, was last year convicted of the sexual assault of a woman at her Newcastle home on NRL grand final night in 2018.

He launched an appeal, claiming a NSW District Court jury had flawed directions and there were inconsistencies in the evidence.

The Court of Criminal Appeal will on Monday decide whether to quash his conviction, order a retrial or reject Hayne’s appeal.

He was sentenced to five years and nine months’ jail after being found guilty in n March last year. Hayne has persistently claimed the sexual acts were consensual.