EXCLUSIVE
Alan Jones was privately mourning the loss of his brother Bob when he was accused of indecently assaulting young men he met during his decades-long radio career.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal Jones had been quietly caring for his ailing older brother, who died aged 85 on September 8, for much of last year.
Jones was arrested at his Circular Quay apartment at 7.45am on November 18 and taken to a Sydney police station, where he was charged with 26 offenses involving nine alleged victims.
The 83-year-old is accused of assaulting the complainants at his harborside apartment, at his former homes in Newtown and Fitzroy Falls in the Southern Highlands, and at other locations in Sydney.
The alleged crimes occurred between June 2001 and December 2019 and include allegations that Jones fondled penises, squeezed a man’s butt and pulled on a man’s scrotum.
Jones faces 11 counts of aggravated indecent assault, 11 counts of assault with an indecent act, two counts of sexually touching another person without consent and two counts of common assault.
The youngest of the alleged victims was just 17 at the time Jones is accused of assaulting him, while another was allegedly an Olympic athlete.
Court documents obtained by Nine newspapers claim police allege Jones “stroked” or “rubbed” the penises of three men.
Alan Jones was still privately mourning the loss of his brother Bob when he was accused of indecently assaulting young men he met during his decades-long radio career. He is pictured outside the Day Street police station in Sydney on November 18.
Other indecent acts alleged against Jones included kissing on the lips and “using the tongue”, as well as him “touching (a complainant’s) penis, pulling on his scrotum”.
Bob Jones, his only brother, did not speak when the 2GB host was first accused of committing indecent acts and had previously been reported to have distanced himself from him.
Robert Charles Jones He was one of three children raised by Charlie and Elizabeth Jones on a dairy farm at Acland in Queensland’s Darling Downs, west of Brisbane.
A notice published in the Courier-Mail and Toowoomba Chronicle on September 14 was one of the few public acknowledgments of his death.
“Passed away peacefully in Tasmania, late Brisbane/Toowoomba,” the notice said.
‘He is survived by his children… also his brother Alan and sister Colleen. Beloved son of the late Charlie and Elizabeth Jones.
A funeral service was held at Churst Church St Lucia in Brisbane, followed by a wake at St Lucia Golf Club on 19 October.
His son Ashley posted a tribute to his father on Instagram: ‘Ok for our much loved Poppy Bob. We will miss your humor and love of life.’
Alan Jones had been quietly caring for his ailing older brother, who died aged 85 on September 8, for much of last year. He is pictured at the Cruising Yacht Club in Rushcutters Bay after the funeral of a family friend on August 27.
Robert Charles Jones was one of three children raised by Charlie and Elizabeth Jones on a dairy farm at Acland in Queensland’s Darling Downs, west of Brisbane.
Jones has no children of his own, but is godfather to the children of many family members and friends and is particularly close to his niece Tonia Taylor, daughter of his sister Colleen.
Journalist Chris Masters wrote in his 2006 biography Jonestown that his brother Bob was “more like his modest bushie father” than the man who wrote speeches for Prime Minister Malclom Fraser and coached the Wallabies.
“Although (Bob) has maintained a lifelong pride in Alan’s achievements, they do not appear to have been kindred spirits and have not kept in close contact,” Masters wrote at the time.
“Beyond the limits of loyalty and family, friends detected an inexplicable distance.”
Daily Mail Australia understands that changed later in Bob’s life.
Masters quoted Bob in a passage recalling Jones winning a collegiate cross-country race in record time against a field that included competitors more athletically gifted than him.
“Alan might have looked like a coward, but deep down he was tough as nails,” Bob said.
Jones followed Bob to Kelvin Grove Teachers’ College in Brisbane, where he adopted an elegant social persona that Bob described as “posh”.
His teaching career would include a spell at King’s School in Parramatta, where Jones coached rugby and in 1974 led the First XV to a GPS premiership.
Club coaching duties followed before Jones took over the national team role. He later became the king of Sydney talk radio.
Jones retired from 2GB in May 2020 but was hosting a show on digital network ADH TV until health issues forced him off the air.
In March he released a video statement denying the assault allegations.
“I’m not going to dwell here on the allegations made about me unless I completely refute them and the inferences associated with them,” Jones said.
“But the Get-Jones campaign is nothing new in my life.”
At the time, Daily Mail Australia quoted a friend as saying Jones was “an absolutely broken man” and that the allegations had left him “completely devastated”.
He underwent a hip replacement about two months later.
Jones has not spoken publicly since the indecent assault charges were laid, but lawyer Chris Murphy said his client would defend them.
“Nothing has been proven, nothing has been proven,” Murphy said the day of Jones’ arrest.
“Alan Jones will properly assert his innocence in the courtroom; if he denies any wrongdoing, this matter will be defended.”
Jones released a video statement in March refuting the allegations that were first raised publicly by Nine newspapers late last year.
He is due to appear at Downing Center Local Court for the first time on December 18.