Police in Australia charged former radio present host Alan Jones with 24 assault and sexual touching offences on Monday, indictments that adopted accusations in a newspaper that Jones had assaulted younger males for many years.
Police confirmed the arrest and expenses in opposition to an 83-year-old man in Sydney however didn’t title him.
He was broadly recognized by Australian media as Alan Jones and TV footage on Monday confirmed him in a police automobile arriving at a police station and, later, leaving surrounded by media. He didn’t make any feedback.
Police allege the offences happened between 2001 and 2019 in opposition to 8 victims, a few of whom Jones knew professionally or personally. The youngest was 17 on the time of the offence, they stated.
More alleged victims are more likely to come ahead now expenses have been laid, New South Wales police assistant commissioner Michael Fitzgerald advised a press convention.
Reuters has sought remark from Jones. He denied the assault allegations made in opposition to him final 12 months by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. Police stated the “vitality” generated by the tales had helped carry the case to courtroom.
Jones had hosted radio exhibits for many years and anchored the favored Sydney breakfast present on radio station 2GB for about 18 years till 2020.
A widely known conservative “shock jock”, listeners knew Jones for his sharp questions and equally sharp tongue. In 2019, he stated then Prime Minister Scott Morrison ought to give his then New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern a “few backhanders” and “shove a sock down her throat” due to her views on local weather change.
Jones has confronted defamation regulation fits many occasions.
After leaving 2GB, he labored at a digital start-up, however had been off the air for the reason that Sydney Morning Herald allegations have been made.
A former schoolteacher, Jones was a extremely profitable coach of the Wallabies nationwide rugby union workforce, main it to a primary, and thus far solely, Grand Slam tour of Britain and Ireland in 1984.