Alan Jones, the veteran Australian radio broadcaster, has been charged with two dozen offences of sexual and indecent assault.
The 83-year-old was taken into custody at his Sydney house early on Monday morning, in response to the BBC.
Jones is a well known Australian radio persona who has additionally labored as a political speechwriter and used to handle the Australian rugby union workforce.
Jones has been charged with sexually abusing seven males and a 17-year-old boy, experiences mentioned. Total, he faces 24 fees over alleged incidents between 2001 and 2019, together with 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb was quoted telling reporters that the investigation can be “very complicated” and “thorough,” and that she expects extra victims to return ahead within the coming weeks.
Jones, who has been granted conditional bail and can seem in court docket on December 18, has beforehand denied allegations of abuse printed by The Sydney Morning Herald in 2023.
“Allegations have been made, nothing has been examined, nothing has been confirmed,” Jones’ lawyer Chris Murphy was quoted telling Australian media. “Alan Jones will assert his innocence appropriately within the courtroom.”
By way of a decades-long profession principally working for native Sydney station 2GB, Jones has not been with out controversy. He has beforehand been sued for defamation and was closely criticized for saying somebody ought to “shove a sock” down the throat of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2019. He retired a yr later citing poor well being.
