Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
13%
3 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
68/100
ABC News (AU)'s corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
3
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
In short:
The mother of Complainant A has denied taking advantage of Alan Jones's "generosity" during cross-examination on Friday.-
She was asked about contacting Mr Jones for his assistance, at the same time as encouraging her son to report an alleged assault.
Mr Jones has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching.
asserted
Jones → deny → assault
The trial of broadcaster Alan Jones has heard the mother of an alleged victim continued to ask the radio host for advice and assistance after he allegedly assaulted her son, despite agreeing in court that she was no longer "financially desperate".
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she → hear → court
The woman has finished giving evidence in the NSW Local Court, where Alan Jones has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching.
asserted
Jones → finish → assault
The woman's son, Complainant A, first encountered Mr Jones when he emailed the former 2GB breakfast host at 13 years old, asking for help for his mother.
asserted
he → encounter → mother
He alleges the broadcaster later kissed and touched him when he was 17.
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he → allege → him
In a tense exchange with Mr Jones's defence team, barrister Claire O'Neill questioned the woman about her motives in continuing to speak to Mr Jones, and seek his assistance, at the same time as encouraging her son to report the alleged assault to police.
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O'Neill → question → police
The trial heard the woman emailed Mr Jones several times about a bill for legal services in 2017, after Mr Jones had put her in touch with a law firm to help retrieve money from her estranged ex-husband.
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Jones → hear → husband
"You suggested in this email that you were anxious and desperate about your financial situation?" Ms O'Neill asked.
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O'Neill → suggest → situation
"I continue to be," the woman responded.
asserted
woman → continue → ?
"You had a house by the ocean…" Ms O'Neill put to the woman.
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O'Neill → have → woman
"We lived in a battleaxe," the witness replied, before conceding her house was "a few hundred metres" from the ocean.
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house → live → ocean
The mother also agreed under questioning that she had a car, a job, was able to meet repayments on her house and had joined her son on a trip to Europe the following year.
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she → agree → Europe
"You were not financially desperate do you agree?" Ms O'Neill asked.
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O'Neill → agree → ?
"Sure," the witness replied.
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witness → reply → ?
The woman admitted emailing Mr Jones to ask him to use his "influence" to get Complainant A's membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground fast-tracked through a waitlist, which she said Mr Jones did not do.
asserted
Jones → admit → waitlist
She also agreed she asked him for "advice" about a repair bill she had received for her 4WD car, but denied she was insinuating that Mr Jones should pay for it.
asserted
Jones → agree → it
"Around the same time that [Complainant A] was speaking to police you were emailing Mr Jones about the cost of repairs to your Land Rover?" Ms O'Neill asked.
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O'Neill → speak → Rover
"Correct," she said.
asserted
she → say → ?
"You were taking advantage of Mr Jones's generosity for as long as you could," Ms O'Neill put to the woman.
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O'Neill → take → woman
"Absolute rubbish," the witness said.
asserted
witness → say → ?
Complainant A's mother reiterated evidence she gave on Thursday, telling the court she was in a "web of dependency" with Mr Jones and that "everything was run by him", after he had assisted in having her home finished.
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home → reiterate → him
The trial has previously heard that her son wrote her a note about 10 days after the alleged assault at Mr Jones's Fitzroy Falls property, saying "something sexual" had happened.
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something → hear → property
Complainant A asked police not to pursue his complaint in 2018, but renewed the allegation in a 2024 police statement.
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A → ask → statement
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