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The Guardian
· collected 2026-09-24 · by Amanda Meade Media correspondent
David Allan, who served as Alan Jones’s butler for nearly two decades until August 2019, testified in a Sydney court that Jones welcomed a prominent athlete to his apartment with hugs and slaps on the bottom, addressing him as "champion." The trial involves charges of indecent assault and sexual touching against Jones, who has pleaded not guilty. Allan stated he witnessed many athletes visiting Jones’s home over the years but denied seeing any inappropriate behavior towards male athletes between 2003 and 2006.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-24,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
In a Sydney courtroom, David Allan, who was Alan Jones's butler for nearly 18 years until August 2019, testified about his employer's interactions with guests at their luxury harbourside home. He described how Jones would welcome a prominent athlete known as complainant M with hugs and kisses on the cheek, calling him "champion." The trial involves charges of indecent assault and sexual touching against Jones from 2003 to 2020 involving five men, including this athlete. Allan also detailed his extensive duties, such as cooking for near-daily guests and ironing everything down to Jones' underpants while managing the broadcaster's strict work schedule that left him sleeping only 2.5 hours a night.
Written for “Alan Jones Trial Witness Statements” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 2 other(s) covering the same event.
The man who was Alan Jones’s butler for almost two decades has told a Sydney court his boss would welcome a prominent athlete to his luxury harbourside apartment with “a hug and a slap on the bottom” and would call him “champion”.
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boss → tell → him
The butler, David Allan, testified in the Downing Centre court that he worked at “the coalface” of the broadcaster’s domestic life as a household manager for 18 and a half years up until August 2019.
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he → testify → August
He cooked, cleaned and ironed everything including his underpants and socks, while his employer “tried to exist on 2.5 hours [sleep] a day”.
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employer → cook → sleep
“I polished the shoes and cleaned the loos and everything else you do in a house,” Allan, 79, said.
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Allan → polish → house
The trial has heard from the prominent athlete, an alleged victim known as complainant M, who told the court Jones would welcome him with a hug and a kiss on the cheek and use flattering terms like “champion” and “beautiful man”.
asserted
Jones → hear → champion
Complainant M’s case involves two of the 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching against Jones.
asserted
case → involve → Jones
The trial is in its eighth week and Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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Jones → plead → charges
Allan, who said he remembers the prominent athlete visiting on eight or nine occasions, was asked by prosecutor Georgina Wright: “How would the defendant greet [M] when he arrived in the apartment?”
Allan: “Well, it was always the same as all sports people seem to do today.
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people → say → apartment
It’s a hug and a slap on the bottom … [and he would say] Hello, champion.
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he → ’ → bottom
And [they would] sit down and chat away.”
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they → sit → ?
After he was asked if he said “slap on the bottom” he said: “Probably the wrong thing to say today, isn’t it?”
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it → ask → bottom
Allan said he referred to his employer as Sir or Mr Jones while others called him AJ or Alan.
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others → say → him
He never sat down to eat with him but was always close by serving food or working in the kitchen.
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He → sit → kitchen
He said “many, many athletes” visited the apartment.
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athletes → say → apartment
“I saw we had cricketers, we had swimmers … we had endless people in the sporting environment”.
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we → see → environment
Allan agreed he saw Jones with a young male athlete at the apartment between 2003 and 2005, and a total of half a dozen young athletes were visitors.
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total → agree → athletes
Allan recalled his interview with Jones for the position of butler.
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Allan → recall → butler
“I can remember his words to me were, ‘Can you knock up a few sandwiches?’
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you → remember → sandwiches
And I said, ‘Crust on or crust off?’
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I → say → ?
“Mr Jones had a very hard, extraordinarily brutal regime of work hours.”
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Jones → have → hours
“When he realised I could boil an egg, he would bring guests, we’d have guests for lunch.
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we → realise → lunch
And then that extended into dinnertime, and we’d do dinners, and then we’d do Sunday roasts and the weekend and then Saturday breakfast when he was off air.”
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he → extend → air
Under cross-examination by defence barrister Claire O’Neill, Allan was asked if he witnessed “any behaviour by Mr Jones towards a male athlete that was inappropriate” between 2003 and 2006.
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that → ask → 2003
Allan: “No, I can’t say I did.
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I → say → ?
The trial before judge Glenn Walsh continues.
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trial → continue → Walsh
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