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Hey and welcome to our stay protection of Alan Jones’ prison trial within the Downing Centre Native Courtroom in Sydney.
Jones, 85, is standing trial on 20 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching with out consent relating to 6 male complainants over a 17-year interval from 2003 to 2020. He denies the alleged bodily acts occurred.
On Monday, the third of the six complainants, a former athlete dubbed “M”, began giving proof.
His cross-examination began on Tuesday, and he returns to the witness field in the present day for additional questioning by Jones’ barrister, Gabrielle Bashir, SC, after a break within the trial on Wednesday. “M” has informed the courtroom:
- Jones kissed him on the nook of his mouth at an occasion in Sydney a few decade in the past. “I believe I froze at the moment,” “M” mentioned.
- He rejected options by Bashir on Tuesday that the alleged kiss didn’t occur.
- The courtroom has heard Jones texted “M” after the perform: “Nice to see you. Sorry I didn’t catch up after, had to return to work. You seemed nice. I really like you, I hope you’ll be able to really feel my kisses darling xxxx.”
- “M” replied: “Good to see you too. I had a really lengthy day in the present day and I’m happy to be in mattress now; thanks mate xoxo.” The dialog resulted in “M” saying “let me know once we can catch up. Numerous love” and Jones replying: “I’ll darling. Massive kisses ceaselessly.”
- “M” agreed throughout cross-examination that he didn’t inform police in his statements that Jones kissed him on the lips on the occasion. However he mentioned that “I imagine I pointed to the place it was”.
- The complainant mentioned he had “a detailed relationship with Jones over a time period” and that “in sure areas” he may go to the broadcaster if he wanted assist.
- The courtroom has beforehand heard that Jones texted “M” on one other event, after receiving a photograph: “I really like the picture. I really like you. I need to kiss you for hours. That’s lovely. We should catch up darling [name] xxx”. “M” mentioned he didn’t reply instantly. Hours later, Jones wrote: “I hope my message didn’t upset you. I really like you.” The person mentioned he responded the subsequent day, writing: “Under no circumstances mate. It’s good to be liked.”
- The complainant mentioned he had used the phrase “mate” for a lot of causes. “I do know I’d made it very clear that … it wasn’t transferring right into a relationship, so ‘mate’ was my means of pushing again, I assume.”
- Reflecting on the messages, “M” informed the courtroom that he believed “it’s an individual that’s in love with me”, including that he didn’t return these emotions.
- “M” mentioned that on the final event he visited Jones at his harbourside residence, the broadcaster kissed him on the cheek in direction of his lips and mentioned phrases to the impact of, “I really like you a lot, you don’t know the way a lot I really like you.” The complainant mentioned he may really feel Jones’ genitals on his leg.
- The complainant mentioned he pushed the broadcaster away and mentioned, “OK, mate”, in a tone meant to convey “get away from me”, and “received out of there as shortly as attainable”.
- The courtroom heard Jones had despatched the complainant items together with weekly flowers for years and a dinner set. The complainant agreed he additionally despatched Jones flowers not less than as soon as.
Assist is on the market from the Nationwide Sexual Assault, Home Household Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or the Males’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491.