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In a Sydney court, an alleged teenage victim of Alan Jones denies that his family tried to deceive Jones or get financial assistance from him. During cross-examination by Gabrielle Bashir SC, the teenager repeatedly stated that his mother’s involvement in correspondence with Jones was limited and insisted he was not trying to deceive the broadcaster about the emails’ authorship. The witness maintains that he did not consent to any inappropriate contact when he visited Jones at age 17.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-08,
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 New South Wales Local Court trial on Thursday, Complainant A denied trying to deceive radio host Alan Jones and obtain financial support from him during his teenage years. The 85-year-old Jones is facing 21 counts of indecent assault and sexual touching related to five male complainants between 2003 and 2020; he has pleaded not guilty. Complainant A, now an adult doctor, accused Jones of kissing him, putting his tongue in his mouth, and touching his buttocks when he was 17 years old. Emails read during the trial showed extensive correspondence between Jones and the complainant over three years, with Jones helping re-negotiate a home loan for the complainant's mother, wiping off $600,000 in debt. During cross-examination by defense barrister Gabrielle Bashir, SC, Complainant A denied trying to get as much financial assistance as possible from Jones, stating it was a lie when questioned about his intent behind the emails.
Written for “Alan Jones Court Case” on 2026-10-08,
grounded in this article and the 2 other(s) covering the same event.
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An alleged teenage victim of Alan Jones has denied his family tried to deceive the broadcaster and get as much money out of him as they could during a tense cross-examination in a Sydney court.
uncertain
they → allege → court
Asked whether he was intent on getting as much financial assistance as he could from the former 2GB host, the witness replied: “That is a lie.”
uncertain
That → ask → host
The youngest complainant in the trial has told the court he was 17 when Jones allegedly put his tongue inside his mouth and touched him on the bottom during a visit to the shock jock’s property in the Southern Highlands.
uncertain
Jones → tell → Highlands
Known as complainant A, the witness said he visited the Fitzroy Falls farm several years after he started corresponding with Jones at the age of 13.
asserted
he → know → 13
He posted a letter to Jones asking for help after his father left, a family member died and his single mother was struggling financially.
asserted
mother → post → help
Complainant A is one of five men who allege Jones indecently assaulted or sexually touched them between 2003 and 2020.
asserted
Jones → allege → 2003
The host has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching.
asserted
host → plead → assault
Jones’s barrister, Gabrielle Bashir SC, has been cross-examining the young man for two days about the extent of his mother’s involvement in the hundreds of emails which were sent to Jones between 2013 and 2016.
asserted
which → cros → 2013
The witness has accepted that his mother provided financial details and documents and made suggestions about what to write, but insisted the correspondence was largely his own work.
asserted
correspondence → accept → what
Bashir asked: “Were you trying to deceive Mr Jones about the author of the email when you sent emails just signed off from [A] that your mother had input into?”
asserted
mother → ask → that
Complainant A replied: “No.”
asserted
A → reply → ?
Bashir said: “I suggest that you were - what do you say to that?”
asserted
you → say → that
A replied: “That you’re wrong.”
asserted
you → reply → ?
Bashir took the witness to a particular email and asked the witness if he agreed that he wanted Jones’s assistance with his mother’s mortgage.
asserted
he → take → mortgage
The complainant repeatedly refused to agree, saying “I am not going to be railroaded” and “I am not going to have my words twisted, Ms Bashir”.
asserted
words → refuse → ?
Bashir asked: “You understood your mother had the intention of obtaining as much assistance from Mr Jones as she could?”
uncertain
she → ask → Jones
A replied: “That is a lie.”
asserted
That → reply → ?
The terse exchanges between Bashir and the witness elicited several objections from prosecutor Georgina Wright, who on Wednesday said: “I object to this, your Honour.
asserted
I → elicit → this
After hours of detailed questions about whether the complainant wrote a specific email about a contract more than a decade ago, Judge Glenn Walsh intervened.
asserted
Walsh → write → contract
“He can’t approve a contract; he is 14 years of age,” Walsh said.
asserted
Walsh → approve → age
The court heard one email Jones sent to A when he was 16 years of age said he had provided in excess of $100,000, “the cost is out of hand” and needs to come to an end.
asserted
cost → hear → end
“Enough is enough,” he said.
asserted
he → say → ?
The teenager replied to Jones that he and his mother could start making repayments to reimburse him.
uncertain
he → reply → him
Jones wrote he did not expect to be repaid.
asserted
he → write → ?
The witness has given evidence that he did not consent to the kiss from Jones in 2017 and that he had pulled away, saying “Enough Alan.
asserted
he → give → 2017
He said Jones “had a grin on his face”.
asserted
Jones → say → face
The incident left him scared for the consequences of pushing Jones away, he said.
asserted
he → leave → Jones
“I needed to be grateful, and being defiant is not being grateful and making a scene is not being grateful.”
asserted
making → need → scene
The trial continues under Judge Walsh.
asserted
trial → continue → Walsh
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