Alan Jones charged with alleged assault of 11th victim

Police have laid a 35th charge against former 2GB host Alan Jones after finding an 11th alleged victim, with the shock jock to front court next week.

Alan Jones leaves Day Street police station after being granted bail. On Friday he was charged with the alleged assault of another potential victim. Picture: Liam Mendes/The Australian

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NSW Police have charged former shock jock Alan Jones over the alleged assault with act of indecency against an 11th alleged victim less than a week ahead of his next court battle.

On Friday, NSW Police said Jones – the long-reigning lead anchor of 2GB – had been issued a court attendance notice for the additional charge and would front the Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, March 11.

It brings the total number of charges against him to 35.

The charge was laid after investigation by Strike Force Bonnefin, a dedicated section of the child abuse squad dedicated to investigating alleged acts of indecent assault and sexual touching by Jones from 2001 to 2019.

“Child Abuse Squad detectives have charged a man with an additional offence relating to an 11th (alleged) victim following an investigation into alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades,” NSW Police said.

Jones is currently out on bail and has denied all prior charges against him.

“Firstly, let me say this: I am certainly not guilty and I will be presenting my account to a jury, as you heard this morning,” Mr Jones said outside court in December.

“I will not be engaging in a running commentary in the media, but I want you to understand this: These allegations are either baseless or distort the truth.

“I have never indecently assaulted these people … the law assumes I am not guilty, and I am not guilty.

“I am emphatic that I’ll be defending every charge before a jury in due course.”

The 83-year-old was charged in November with dozens of charges ranging from aggravated indecent act and sexually touching a person without consent to assault with an act of indecency.

A brief of evidence relating to Jones’ other charges is also set to be presented at his hearing on Tuesday.

He was arrested on November 18 at ‘the Toaster’, his luxury harbourside apartment along Circular Quay, with 26 charges laid initially after testimony from nine alleged victims.

This rose to 34 in December when a 10th alleged victim came forward. His youngest alleged victim was 17 at the time.

The alleged offences are said to have taken place across the state, namely at a property in the Southern Highlands, a former Newtown address and his Circular Quay apartment.

In documents made available following Jones’ first hearing on December 18, he was alleged to have kissed the 10th alleged victim on the mouth, and squeezed and rubbed his penis. Police will argue this happened on eight occasions between 2003 and 2004 in Sydney, Mittagong and Fitzroy Falls.

Another alleged victim referred to as Complainant C was said to have worked “under the authority of the accused (Jones)”.

While initially restricted to living in Sydney under his bail conditions, this was relaxed in December to allow him to travel provided police are given 72 hours notice.

After allegations against Jones were detailed by the Nine papers in December, he pledged to launch defamation action against Nine Publishing and dispute their reporting.

Any civil action launched by Mr Jones would likely be deferred until after the outcome of the criminal trial.

During his 40-year reign over the airwaves, Jones commanded enormous sway over the public discussion of politics, business, sport and crime.

But his career was marred by a recurring derision of women, saying in 2012 that former Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s father had “died of shame”.

In 2019, the end of his career was all but certain when he said former prime minister Scott Morrison should “shove a sock” down the throat of former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and get tough with a “few backhanders”.