The trial is expected to resume at ۱۰am with complainant J continuing his evidence. I’m in court now with Amanda Meade to follow all the developments on day two.
If you want a summary of what happened yesterday, you can read Ben Doherty’s analysis below:
The booming voice, the vast radio audience, the bully pulpit of an eponymous TV show, the great and the good on speed-dial, a staffer in the prime ministerial office dubbed the ‘minister for Alan Jones’: these were not ancillaries peripheral to the Jones empire, they were central to it.
Even walking into court on Monday, at the centre of a glacially moving press pack, it was all about Alan.
That evaporated as soon as he stepped inside the claustrophobic confines of court ۳.۱.
Here he is simply ‘the defendant’.
Welcome to day two of the Alan Jones indecent assault trial.
On Monday, a former schoolboy athlete told the court he didn’t tell anyone that the broadcaster, now ۸۵, was allegedly kissing him and touching his genitalia when he was a teenager because he was “fearful” of losing Jones’s financial support.
The man, known as complainant J, is expected to continue giving evidence via video link on Tuesday.
J is the first of six complainants expected to give evidence of their alleged indecent assault by Jones, who is facing ۲۲ charges. The trial before judge Glenn Walsh at Downing Centre local court is expected to run for four months and hear from ۷۶ witnesses.
Jones has denied all wrongdoing and said the allegations are either baseless or distorted the truth.
Jones’s defence barrister Gabrielle Bashir SC on Monday argued that the alleged victims had been egged on to complain by media rivals – and their reliability and credibility were questionable.
I’m Jordyn Beazley and I’ll be keeping you up to date throughout the day alongside my colleague Amanda Meade.
