SYDNEY– Retired Sydney radio broadcaster and previous Australian nationwide rugby trainer Alan Jones refuted all claims after he showed up in court on Wednesday billed with several sex criminal activities versus 10 men over twenty years.
The 83-year-old made his initial court look in Sydney’s Downing Facility Resident Court following his apprehension last month.
Jones was not asked to go into appeals to the 34 fees of worsened indecent attack, indecent attack, sexually touching without permission and typical attack. Yet he informed media outside the court he would certainly battle all fees in a court test.
” I am absolutely innocent and I’ll exist my account to a court,” Jones stated. “These claims are all either unjustified or they misshape the fact.”
” I have actually never ever indecently attacked these individuals. I am emphatic that I’ll be protecting every cost,” he included.
2 even more supposed sufferers have actually stepped forward considering that cops billed Jones on Nov. 18 with 24 offenses connecting to 8 plaintiffs matured as young as 17.
Authorities affirmed the offenses were devoted from 2001 up until 2019.
Jones held a preferred Sydney early morning radio reveal from 2002 up until he retired in 2020. He was considered among one of the most effective individuals in Australian media.
He was additionally an effective trainer of the Australian nationwide rugby group, the Wallabies, for 4 years from very early 1984. The group won 86 of their 102 suits under his management.
Jones was additionally significant in conventional national politics and was a speechwriter for Head of stateMalcolm Fraser Fraser was in power from 1975 up until 1983. Fraser passed away in 2015.
On Wednesday, defense attorney Bryan Wrench informed Court Michael Allen that Jones would certainly invite a court test in the New South Wales state Area Court to remove his name.
” There have actually been several … untruths released by the media and the cops in this issue,” Wrench stated.
Jones has actually been totally free on bond considering that his apprehension. He will certainly not be needed to show up in court for a short management hearing on March 11 following year.
