Mother of one of Alan Jones’s alleged victims told him ‘I should have protected you’, court hears

Complainant J’s mother asked son if former broadcaster ever touched him, high-profile trial told Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The mother of one of Alan Jones’s alleged victims has told the court she apologised to her son for not protecting him after he disclosed the broadcaster had sexually touched him when he was a teenager. The single mother of four said she was “in shock” when her son, an outstanding schoolboy athlete, admitted that he had initially lied when she asked him if Jones had touched him. The mother was the final witness for complainant J, whose evidence has taken up almost two weeks of the trial of Jones, who has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of indecent assault and two of sexual touching against six complainants. She said after allegations about the former 2GB broadcaster were published in the Sydney Morning Herald in late 2023, she asked him: “Did Alan Jones ever touch you or do anything to you?” J said he had not. But after Jones was arrested a year later, her son, now in his early 40s, told her that he had reported to police that Jones had allegedly touched him. â€