Former veteran radio host Alan Jones is seeking evidence police invalidly raided his home as he mulls a bid to stop his prosecution for sexual abuse.
stand accused of engaging in impropriety when raiding the home of former shock jock Alan Jones during a sexual assault investigation. Police should reveal which officers accessed or downloaded material from his phone and through intercepted calls, claiming the search warrants could be invalid.
"The phone was seized, and the evidence to date suggests it was then searched willy-nilly," his barrister Gabrielle Bashir SC said. On its face, the search warrant was "bad", she continued, partly because it referred to Jones being accused of sexual intercourse without consent, amongst other offences. Jones has pleaded not guilty to 25 charges of indecent assault and two charges of sexual touching against nine alleged victims over nearly two decades when he ruled the airwaves.
Bashir flagged that her client might apply to either temporarily or permanently halt the proceedings, or argue that certain evidence be tossed because it was obtained unlawfully. Representing the NSW Police Commissioner, barrister Peter Singleton said there was no evidence officers had engaged in any sort of impropriety or that the warrant itself was invalid.
He said the court should not order the release of documents merely to allow Jones' defence team to see if there was anything there to support a future bid to put the case on ice. Jones is set to contest the allegations in a four-month-long hearing starting in August. His defence team has been fighting to gain access to documents from the police as well as the complainants in the matter.
He worked with Sydney radio station 2UE before joining rival 2GB, where he was a long-time ratings juggernaut until 2020. Jones is accused of sexual misconduct against nine complainants between 2003 and 2020, both in private and in public places such as restaurants and at high-profile events. Two of the alleged victims were acting as chauffeurs for the former private school teacher when he indecently assaulted them, according to prosecutors.
The charges, which Jones has claimed are "all either baseless or they distort the truth", followed his retirement from a hugely influential broadcasting career launched in 1985. During his decades on the air, Jones became a feared interviewer who excelled at questioning leaders while dividing audiences with his outspoken views. Major tax reform, spending cuts and defence boost: What you can expect in this year's 'ambitious' federal budgetRebecca vanished 28 years ago. Her sister has never given up hope
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