Jarryd Hayne seen leaving house and arriving at court as he learns if he will go into custody

Jarryd Hayne appeared tense as he arrived at court to learn whether or not he will be taken into custody today. 

The disgraced NRL star held his wife Amellia Bonnici by the hand as the pair pushed through the throng of media waiting outside the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.

Hayne hid his eyes behind a pair of large black sunglasses and wore a tie, suit jacket and fawn pants.

He remained silent with his wife walking by his side and wearing a burgundy pants suit. 

Jarryd Hayne appeared tense as he arrived at court to learn whether or not he will be taken into custody today

The disgraced NRL star held his wife Amellia Bonnici by the hand as the pair pushed through the throng of media waiting outside the NSW Supreme Court on Friday

Last Thursday, NSW District Court Judge Graham Turnbull SC permitted Hayne to remain at liberty on bail to help his family get sorted. 

The Director of Public Prosecutions applied this week for a higher court to overturn the ruling and put him behind bars. 

Hayne will again face Justice Richard Button in the Supreme Court for a detention application. 

If prosecutors are successful, Hayne will be handcuffed in the court, taken down to the cells and then ferried to either Silverwater or Parklea maximum correctional centre by prison van. 

Hayne put his arm briefly round the shoulder of his barrister, Margaret Cunneen SC, after walking into court on Friday.

Justice Button said he did not require anyone to testify, including Ms Bonnici and would accept her affidavit.

Ms Cunneen said that Hayne’s case was one of special or exceptional circumstances, to which His Honour relied that those circumstances had to justify his continuance on bail.

Ms Cunneen said Hayne faced 25 days of complete segregation and isolation if he went to prison before his sentencing date, which is May 8.

‘He is not a danger to anyone,’ she said, citing ‘the extraordinary media coverage and a toxic and terrifying campaign of social media’ portraying Hayne as ‘a sex offender of the most debased, the worst kind.’

Justice Button said that ‘violence against people in jail (is not acceptable) but the reality is many people in custody need to be placed within limited areas to protect them’.

‘There is great public interest in the criminal justice system especially sexual (crimes),’ he said.

Ms Cunneen said it would make a great difference if Ms Bonnici and the children could be re-located to a country centre four hours out of Sydney for the next three or four weeks ‘with the protection of her husband’.

The court has previously heard there was ‘no question’ Hayne will be sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in 2018.

Hayne was earlier this month convicted by a jury for a second time.

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.

Hayne was spotted leaving his home and making a beeline for his car before arriving at the NSW Supreme Court on Friday 

The NRL star was accompanied by his wife as he stepped foot out the front door of his home 

Hayne opened the car door for his wife as she stepped inside before the pair headed to court 

The 35-year-old last week walked out of the Downing Centre District Court on conditional bail before he faces sentencing proceedings in May.

However, the Director of Public Prosecutions has made a Supreme Court detention application to immediately place him behind bars.

Hayne and his lawyers will arrive at the Supreme Court on Friday morning to fight the application.

Under NSW law, a person who is found guilty of an offence and will be sentenced to a full time jail term must be refused bail unless they can establish special or exceptional circumstances.

The first application to detain Hayne was made in the District Court and successfully opposed by his barrister Margaret Cunneen SC, who told the court the former Parramatta fullback was ‘too high-profile’ to be sent to prison in the midst of major media coverage.

Judge Graham Turnbull agreed with the defence’s opposition, saying ‘who he is and what’s surrounded him’ has made him ‘particularly vulnerable in the circumstances’.

Judge Turnbull allowed Hayne to remain on bail to help his family get sorted before sentence proceedings on May 8.

‘It is something which is an exceptional case and created an exceptional circumstance,’ Judge Turnbull said.

The court heard Hayne had received hundreds of threats in the days since the guilty verdict.

‘Should lock him up with a few guys and teach him what it’s like to have your consent disregarded,’ one threat read.

‘You are the lowest of the low you deserve no sympathy,’ another said.

Another read: ‘Big bubba is waiting’.

Judge Turnbull previously told the court there was ‘no question’ Hayne would be going to prison when he faces sentencing.

The court last week heard Hayne had previously been targeted while in custody, meaning he had to be protected.

Ms Cunneen said Hayne is ‘much more liable’ to attacks while in custody as the ‘intensity of publicity’ is greater than ever.

Hayne put his arm briefly round the shoulder of his barrister, Margaret Cunneen SC, after walking into court on Friday