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A former athlete who has alleged that Alan Jones sloppily kissed and groped him has denied having a financial motive for making the claims, or of inventing his story after learning that Jones had been arrested.<\/p>\n
A non-publication order preventing the public from hearing evidence from the complainant known as \u201cJ\u201d was lifted on Thursday afternoon after two days of cross-examination by Jones\u2019 barrister, Gabrielle Bashir, SC.<\/p>\n
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The cross-examination of complainant \u201cJ\u201d, a former teen athlete who accused Alan Jones of indecent assault, can now be reported.Audrey Richardson<\/p>\n
Bashir\u2019s questioning, sometimes terse, accused \u201cJ\u201d of concocting claims Jones had kissed him at his properties.<\/p>\n
Jones is standing trial in the Local Court on 22 counts of indecent assault, nine of which relate to \u201cJ\u201d, and two counts of sexual touching without consent. He strenuously denies the allegations.<\/p>\n
Related Article The court heard Alan Jones paid \u201cJ\u201d, a young athlete, hundreds of dollars a week to help with his athletic career from his late teens, in the early 2000s, to his late 20s.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, \u201cJ\u201d gave evidence<\/a> that the payments stopped when he was not competing any more.<\/p>\n Bashir suggested to \u201cJ\u201d on Wednesday that the payments stopped once he was financially stable and no longer on \u201cstruggle street\u201d. She put to him that at the time of his police report he was under financial pressure amid employment difficulties.<\/p>\n Asked by Bashir if he understood he could sue Jones on the basis of his claims, \u201cJ\u201d said he believed the deadline for civil action had passed.<\/p>\n When Bashir suggested he \u201csaw [Jones\u2019] arrest as an opportunity to get the money going again\u201d, \u201cJ\u201d replied: \u201cI can\u2019t control what you suggest or what you think, but it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want anything but proper justice for this matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The court heard \u201cJ\u201d, after his athletics career came to an end, went on to become a police officer.<\/p>\n The court heard allegations he had issues with gambling. But \u201cJ\u201d denied this, and the prosecution applied for a provisional non-publication order over his evidence that Judge Glenn Walsh lifted on Thursday after hearing that the matters would not arise again.<\/p>\n Related Article Jones\u2019 legal team had alleged \u201cJ\u201d had agitated the claims against the wealthy broadcaster because he needed the money. \u201cJ\u201d repeated the denial, that money was his motive, on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been over this and no,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI wish there was something we could do to establish this and say [I] can not take money from the defendant, I won\u2019t seek that, I am happy to sign a document or affirm it now.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to sue him, I don\u2019t want his money.\u201d<\/p>\n The court on Thursday watched as \u201cJ\u201d repeatedly closed his eyes and \u201cput himself back there\u201d into his memories in Jones\u2019 home.<\/p>\n In one flashback, \u201cJ\u201d recalled driving Jones to his Fitzroy Falls property in 2004. Jones awoke as they went around a bend, and \u201cJ\u201d recited line-by-line the conversation he claims to remember.<\/p>\n Then, he said, Jones put his hand on his thigh, and later down his pants and squeezed \u201cJ\u201d\u2019s penis \u201cthe hardest it\u2019s ever been squeezed\u201d.<\/p>\n Jones\u2019 barrister asked what he did in response.<\/p>\n \u201cYou were physically superior to Alan Jones?\u201d Bashir asked \u201cJ\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cNot necessarily,\u201d the man said, before agreeing he was \u201cphysically superior\u201d to Jones.<\/p>\n Bashir said \u201cJ\u201d had concocted the story.<\/p>\n \u201cYou were driving the car, with the brake under your foot, you had the key, you managed to slow the car down when you saw workmen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Related Article \u201cYour account of what occurred in the car is not true.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes it is,\u201d the man replied.<\/p>\n During hours of cross-examination, Bashir put to \u201cJ\u201d that Jones had never said he would increase his weekly payments because \u201cJ\u201d had been a \u201cgood boy\u201d, and the payments in fact correlated with his sporting costs. She suggested \u201cJ\u201d was \u201crecasting these payments as something sinister\u201d. The man disagreed.<\/p>\n However, he acknowledged later in the questioning that his initial 2024 police statement contained some incorrect dates, and he had not received a mobile phone or a car from Jones until he had left school.<\/p>\n \u201cYou were trying to paint a picture of Alan Jones giving you a phone and car when you were a schoolboy, weren\u2019t you?\u201d Bashir asked.<\/p>\n The man denied this. He rejected that he was \u201ctrying to fit a schoolboy narrative of sexual touching\u201d.<\/p>\n Earlier in the week, \u201cJ\u201d testified that he first met Jones when he was 14 or 15 after the broadcaster interviewed him about his sporting achievements.<\/p>\n He had said that Jones gave him a mobile phone shortly after this meeting. Sometime when he was in year 12, he told the court, Jones gave him a car.<\/p>\n The trial continues.<\/p>\n Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or the Men\u2019s Referral Service on 1300 766 491.<\/p>\n Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n![\"Broadcaster](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a13fb6635ccaef912e40e58c545643abbefdd6c0.jpeg\")
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Jones\u2019 barrister Gabrielle Bashir at an earlier court appearance for Jones.Clare Sibthorpe<\/p>\n![\"Alan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/e8ff3c228e4b919550672524aee6b75a3f42c7efa480a2cd29299b53bdfde68d.gif\")
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