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Disgraced former NRL star Jarryd Hayne has been jailed for at least three years after sexually assaulting a woman in her home.

The 35-year-old was found guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent on April 4 and taken into custody 10 days later when his bail was revoked.

Hayne maintains his innocence and has not accepted responsibility for the crimes a jury found him guilty of, the sentencing judge said on Friday.

He assaulted the woman with his hands and mouth in her suburban Newcastle home on NRL grand final night 2018.

The pair cleaned blood off themselves in her ensuite before Hayne returned to a taxi he paid $550 to wait outside and drive him to Sydney.

She cannot be identified, but in a statement read to the court on Monday, said her life has been "launched into what feels like a never-ending nightmare" in the almost five years since.

"I am stronger and I am wiser but I am damaged, and I won't ever be the same person," she wrote.

NSW District Court Judge Graham Turnbull said Hayne was much bigger than the woman he assaulted after he "reefed" her pants away, as he jailed him for a total of four years and nine months with a non-parole period of three years on Friday.

"He overwhelmed her in an inherently unequal contest ... to achieve some sexual gratification," he said.

"His preparedness to utilise ultimately the complainant as some kind of sexual object is a matter of significance in the manner in which he went about committing this offence."

Hayne's sentence is backdated to May 7, 2022 due to previous time in custody and other factors the judge considered.

He spent nine months in jail before verdicts were overturned, requiring another trial, his third on charges laid in November 2018.

The first trial's jury was unable to reach a verdict.

Hayne played most of his 214 NRL games for the Parramatta Eels as well as representing Australia and Fiji, being selected for NSW in 23 State of Origin matches.

He appeared in court in prison greens via videolink on Friday.

Hayne will be eligible for parole on May 6, 2025.

"Say no more," Hayne said, as he was taken off screen after the sentence was delivered.

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Melbourne have edged a brave Brisbane in a drama-charged NRL clash to extend their long domination over the ladder leaders.

Thursday night's match at Melbourne's AAMI Park had Broncos skipper Adam Reynolds stretchered off in a neck brace, a penalty try, three Brisbane players sin-binned and two players put on report in a chaotic marathon match.

But the home side did enough in the end to book a 24-16 victory and stretch their winning streak against Brisbane to 13, with the visitors still winless at the Storm's home ground since 2016.

Brisbane coach Kevin Walters felt the continuous stoppages by referee Todd Smith were a blight on the game.

"I'm pretty frustrated - we came here to play football and I don't feel that we got a game of football," he said.

"I'll take the loss but this is two good teams going at it and it didn't become a game of football.

"We had three guys sin-binned, it's hard to win when that happens and were they fair sin-binning? I won't make any comment because my contract isn't big enough to pay the fine."

The teams were locked at 10-10 at halftime with Brisbane having lost veteran halfback Reynolds after he hit his head on the ground diving in an unsuccessful attempt to ground a loose ball for a try.

He was taken from the field on a medi-cab but later cleared of a serious neck injury although he's set to miss next week's heavyweight clash with Penrith.

In the same play the NRL bunker awarded a penalty try to the Broncos, ruling that Storm hooker Harry Grant had pushed Herbie Farnworth in the back as he also raced for the ball.

Pat Carrigan is also in danger of being rubbed out for the Panthers after the star prop was sin-binned for a hip-drop tackle.

Carrigan was last season banned for four games for the same offence but both Walters and Storm coach Craig Bellamy felt he was hard done by.

The Broncos were forced to play the final three minutes of the half down a man when Farnworth was sent to the bin for a professional foul for impeding his opposite Reimis Smith.

Smith earlier found trouble, put on report for a dangerous tackle.

The home side took immediate advantage and sent the ball wide to Will Warbrick, with five-eighth Ezra Mam unable to stop the rampaging winger.

It looked like Melbourne had broken the halftime deadlock after Walsh spilt a Cameron Munster bomb, with Warbrick again touching down. However it was ruled that Xavier Coates, who had pressured the fullback, was offside at the kick.

Six minutes later Mam made up for his earlier lapse when he dislodged the ball from second-rower Eliesa Katoa as he dived across the line, with coach Storm Craig Bellamy unable to hide his disgust.

The Broncos were again forced to toil a man down with Carrigan's untimely exit and again they paid the price.

Coates spilt a Jahrome Hughes bomb but the ball went backwards with OIam pouncing for a 16-10 scoreline before a Nick Meaney penalty gave the team more breathing space.

Warbrick then got his second try in the 74th minute with Hughes snatching up a Walsh fumble to extend the margin to 14 points.

"So many 50:50 things happened," said Bellamy.

"It seemed to go for a hell of a long time, like an AFL game ... but we're happy with the result and we've got a couple of days off for the boys to put their feet up."

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The family of a missing Queensland woman have been dealt a devastating blow after police suspended the search for her remains at a Brisbane landfill site.

Police made the decision to discontinue the search at the Swanbank landfill site on Thursday, more than six weeks after Lesley Trotter, 78, disappeared from her inner-Brisbane home.

Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham said the decision came after extensive consultation with forensic experts and landfill engineers.

"After more than a month since commencing the search, police have been unable to locate Ms Trotter's body," he said.

Police called time on the mammoth task after investigators and the Australian Defence Force sifted through more than 1000 tonnes of rubbish at the Swanbank tip near Ipswich.

The retired teacher vanished from her unit in the suburb of Toowong on March 28, with her mobile phone and wallet inside and car parked in the garage.

Investigators believe Ms Trotter was killed the night she went missing, and her remains were hidden in a wheelie bin, which was compacted by rubbish collectors and sent to the massive landfill site.

The landfill search started on April 18, and police were confident the quarantined rubbish they were searching was from close to Ms Trotter's home after paperwork belonging to a resident in a nearby street was discovered.

Investigators warned it would be an uphill battle to locate the remains.

The day Ms Trotter went missing, six B-double loads of garbage were moved to landfill sites.

Rubbish collection continued for another 14 days, with another 300 truckloads disposed of at a nearby transfer station alone before being trucked to a landfill.

Ms Trotter's family have been advised of the latest decision, but the investigation into her disappearance continues despite the setback.

"A team of 10 detectives remain committed to solving the disappearance of Ms Trotter," Det Massingham said.

Police believe Ms Trotter died close to her Toowong home, where crime scenes were established at her unit block and outside the complex, with the disappearance believed to be linked to a dispute over recycling.

The missing woman was known to search through refuse, searching wheeling bins on the streets to remove recycling from general waste into the correct bins before collection.

Detectives renewed their appeal for anyone with information or relevant vision, mainly between 5am and 7am on March 28, near Maryvale Street in Toowong, to come forward.

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