The former Sydney radio host Alan Jones has been charged with two further offences against a new ninth alleged victim, meaning he is now facing a total of 26 charges including indecent assault and sexual touching.
New South Wales police on Tuesday said they had laid the additional charges of assault with an act of indecency after receiving further legal advice the previous night.
Jones had been arrested and charged on Monday in relation to offences spanning two decades against an initial eight alleged victims.
His lawyer, Chris Murphy, said on Monday that Jones denied any misconduct and would assert his innocence in court.
“Nothing has been tested. Nothing has been proven,” Murphy said.
Jones was granted conditional bail and was scheduled to appear at Downing Centre local court in Sydney on 18 December. Police said he faced restrictions on travel and had been ordered not to contact or harass his alleged victims.
The NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, told reporters on Monday that Jones’s arrest was the result of a “long, thorough, protracted investigation” and police had anticipated more people could come forward.
“There’s no such thing as a matter that’s too old to be investigated,” she said.
The 83-year-old former broadcaster was arrested on Monday morning at his apartment in Sydney’s Circular Quay. Police later said Jones waited calmly for three-and-a-half hours while detectives searched the apartment and seized multiple electronic devices.
He was taken to Day Street police station in central Sydney and charged with 24 offences against eight alleged victims, including 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault where the alleged victim was under the authority of the alleged offender, nine counts of assault with an act of indecency, two counts of sexually touching another person without consent and two counts of common assault.
The incidents, including Tuesday’s charges, were alleged to have occurred between 2001 and 2019. Police claimed one alleged victim was 17 at the time the alleged offences took place.
“We’ll also allege that [for] some of the victims, when the alleged offence took place was the first time that they ever met the accused,” said Michael Fitzgerald, the commissioner in charge of the state crime command, on Monday.
Police claimed at least one alleged victim was employed by or with Jones.
Jones hosted breakfast radio in Sydney on 2GB for nearly 20 years. For much of that time, he was one of the nation’s most influential media personalities.
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