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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.
They asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to acquit Hayne on those grounds, rather than order the 36-year-old face a fourth trial over the matter.
Hayne, who watched the appeal hearing via a video link from jail, was found guilty on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent over an incident at a woman's home near Newcastle on September 30, 2018.
Previous trials heard the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, changed her mind about having sex with Hayne after realising he had a taxi waiting outside the house.
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 underway 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
Hayne's barrister, Tim Game SC, told the appeals court the defence had been unable to cross-examine the woman during the most recent trial on facts that might have been crucial to the case.
Messages from the victim to another woman she had met on social media did not contain mention of a sexual assault and she therefore took actions to conceal them, he said.
Mr Game argued failing to come forward with the messages amounted to 'systematic curation of evidence of
