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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

Hayne's lawyers fight to overturn rape conviction

Jarryd Hayne is fighting to overturn his conviction for sexual assault. (Steven Saphore/AAP PHOTOS)

Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne is hoping to overturn a conviction for raping a woman on the night of the 2018 grand final as a second appeal gets under way in the NSW Supreme Court.

Hayne's lawyers argued on Wednesday that text and social media messages deleted from the victim's phone amounted to deliberate concealment of the facts.

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