A series of bungles by detectives investigating sexual assault claims against NRL star Jack de Belin led to him applying for his trial to be thrown out.
In May the charges against de Belin and co-accused Callan Sinclair were withdrawn by the top prosecutor in NSW after two District Court trials ended in hung juries.
But the case almost never made it to trial in the first place with de Belin s lawyers applying for a stay of proceedings in January 2020 - the details of which have been revealed this week.
Jack de Belin s rape trial was withdrawn earlier this year after two hung juries (pictured)
04:52 EDT, 27 April 2021
The head detective investigating Jack de Belin s rape allegations has been grilled for the second day in court by the footballer s lawyer for accessing privileged information.
Callan Sinclair, 23, and de Belin, 30, have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of aggravated sexual assault that allegedly took place at a North Wollongong unit in December 2018.
In the first trial of the two men that could not be concluded Detective Senior Constable Shawn Adams admitted lying under oath about looking through a privileged file on de Belin s phone.
NRL player Jack de Belin (pictured) is facing a retrial over allegations he and Callan Sinclair raped a teenager in 2018