Former Australian rugby trainer and celebrity broadcaster Alan Jones was jailed Monday for affirmed “sexual touching offences”, cops claimed.
Detectives from a committed kid misuse team jailed Jones while carrying out a search warrant at his high-end Sydney Harbour apartment or condo.
The 83-year-old is implicated of “indecent assault and sexual touching offences” extending in between 2001 and 2019, New South Wales Police claimed.
Jones is a family name throughout Australia, and has actually for years held enormous guide over popular opinion with his conventional talk program.
He has actually vigorously rejected attack claims, which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald paper late in 2015.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb informed press reporters Monday she was “anticipating that other people may come forward”.
“It is very complex and protracted, and I know that those officers have been working tirelessly to lead to today’s operation,” she claimed.
She did not offer additional information on the situation yet advised sufferers of historical misuse ahead ahead.
“There is no such thing as a matter that is too old to be investigated,” she claimed. “We will take your matter seriously.”
Jones, that continuously attempted and fell short to win elected workplace, left his Sydney radio program in 2020.
In 1984, he trained Australia’s nationwide rugby group, the Wallabies, to a historical “grand slam” of exploring triumphes over England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
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