Claims extracted
27
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
4%
1 of 27 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
61/100
The Sydney Morning Herald's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
8
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A former athlete who has alleged Alan Jones kissed him non-consensually has told a court that his relationship with the then-broadcaster had “a secret part I wasn’t disclosing to anyone”.
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I → allege → anyone
Complainant “M” returned to the witness box for a fourth day in Jones’ indecent assault and sexual touching trial at the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney.
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M → return → Sydney
He has accused Jones of kissing him non-consensually on two occasions, including on the corner of his mouth at an event in Sydney about a decade ago.
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He → accuse → Sydney
“M” alleges the second kiss occurred years later when he visited the radio host’s Circular Quay apartment, and that Jones kissed him repeatedly on the cheek, moving towards his mouth, and pressed his genitals against the complainant’s leg.
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Jones → allege → leg
Jones denies the alleged physical acts occurred.
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acts → deny → ?
He has pleaded not guilty to two charges relating to “M” and 20 more alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences relating to five other complainants.
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He → plead → complainants
During re-examination on Friday, prosecutor Georgina Wright, SC, took “M” to his evidence given during cross-examination, in which he was asked about his continuing friendship with Jones following the alleged kiss at the function.
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he → take → function
He had said: “Yes, the friendship had continued, or the relationship we had, however you define it, continued.”
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you → say → it
Wright asked how he would define his relationship with Jones following the event.
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he → ask → event
“M” said he struggled with the word “friendship”.
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he → say → word
“Colleague is not the appropriate word; I don’t know how to define it,” he said, adding he was “managing” the relationship.
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he → know → relationship
“We had a professional relationship.
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We → have → relationship
[There was] a private part to that relationship, but then for me there was this other part which was this secret part I wasn’t disclosing to anyone.”
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I → be → anyone
During cross-examination, “M” said he remembered telling police in his statement that Jones kissed him on the first occasion on his “face, close to the corner of my mouth” as opposed to on his lips.
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Jones → say → lips
He said that he believed he “pointed to where it was”.
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it → say → ?
On Friday, Wright asked if part of what he told police on one occasion was that Jones kissed him on the lips at the event.
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Jones → ask → event
“Yes,” “M” responded.
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M → respond → ?
Wright took him to the suggestion raised in cross-examination that he had never used the word “frozen” in his police statements about the alleged function kiss.
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he → take → kiss
He had told the court earlier this week that he believed he froze and then went back to his table.
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he → tell → table
Wright asked if part of what he told police was, “when Alan did this, I felt uncomfortable because of where he kissed me ...
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he → ask → me
And I did not want him to do that and it made me extraordinarily uncomfortable”.
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me → want → that
The man replied that he did.
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he → reply → ?
Later on Friday, a man who attended the event in Sydney where “M” alleges Jones kissed him non-consensually said he could not recall whether the complainant was at the event.
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complainant → attend → event
He said “M” “didn’t always attend the events”.
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M → say → events
Jones’ trial has now heard from three of the six complainants in the case.
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trial → hear → case
Next week, a fourth complainant, dubbed “H”, is expected to give evidence.
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complainant → dub → evidence
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news → know → ?
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