Explosive new details in case of once-untouchable king of radio

A charge document reveals the new details of the complaints made against the former broadcaster, in which he allegedly committed predatory ­indecent attacks against nine men.

Alan Jones released on bail from Day Street Police Station in Sydney. Picture: NewsWire / Dylan Coker

The once-untouchable king of radio Alan Jones is alleged to have touched the inner thigh and rubbed the penis of a man who he “directly employed”, and kissed on the lips and squeezed the bottoms of others, as new details are revealed about the 26 charges he faces in the courts.

A charge document, released by the courts, revealed the details of the nine complaints made against the former broadcaster, in which he allegedly committed predatory ­indecent attacks, ­including against a prominent Olympian and a 17-year-old.

The dates of the 26 allegations span 18 years from 2001 to 2019, and numerous locations including his former residence in Newtown, his luxury Circular Quay apartment, and a property in Fitzroy Falls in the Southern Highlands.

One person who worked for Mr Jones accounted for 11 aggravated indecent assault charges, and complained of alleged acts including “squeezing” and rubbing his thigh, kissing him on the lips and touching his penis.

Other alleged indecent acts included touching a person’s penis and “pulling his scrotum”, touching and squeezing someone’s bottom, as well as kissing someone else on the lips, and “using his tongue”.

NSW police charged the former Sydney 2GB radio host with the slew of offences after arresting him at his harbourside apartment around 7.45am on November 18. He was granted conditional bail and will next appear in Downing Centre Local Court on December 18.

He is being represented by high-profile solicitors, Chris Murphy and Bryan Wrench. His lawyer, Mr Murphy, said Jones “denies any misconduct” and would “assert his innocence” in court.

Broadcaster Alan Jones leaves Day Street police station with his lawyers Bryan Wrench, left, and Chris Murphy, right. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

The charges included 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault (victim under authority of ­offender), nine counts of assault with act of indecency, two counts of sexually touching another person without consent, and two counts of common assault.

The NSW State Crime Command’s Child Abuse Squad in March established Strike Force Bonnefin to investigate alleged indecent assaults and sexual touching incidents between 2001 and 2019.

One of Jones’s accusers, identified by the pseudonym Bradley Webster, is understood to have filed a police report only after ­becoming upset with public criticisms he was making the complaint anonymously.

Mr Webster was 20 when he started working for the radio host at 2GB. Mr Webster ­alleges Jones touched his genitals as he drove him home from 2GB studios.

Lawyers representing Jones say he denies all accusations, previously telling the Sydney Morning Herald: “Our client denies ever having indecently assaulted the persons referred to in your letter, and your suggestion that he has is scandalous, grossly offensive and seriously defamatory of him.”

Jones reiterated his ­denial in a five-minute video released in March. “I’m not going to dwell here on the allegations made about me other than I refute them entirely and the inferences associated with them,” Jones said. “But the ‘get Jones’ campaign is nothing new in my life.”

At a press conference in Wollongong on the day of his arrest, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the efforts of the Strike Force Bonnefin would continue following Jones’s arrest.

“This is a result of a very long, thorough, protracted investigation. The investigators will have more to say about that … but let me say I did visit the strike force some weeks and months ago to look at the work that they have been doing,” Ms Webb said.

She urged anyone who believes they had been a victim of Jones to come forward. “There’s no such thing as a matter that’s too old to be investigated,” Ms Webb said. “What I’d say to victims is that there is no better time to come forward than now, and you will be listened to, and we will take your matter seriously.”