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A warning this story contains some explicit detail. The brother of a man accusing Alan Jones of indecent assault has told a Sydney court he never saw the radio host act inappropriately towards the young man. Alan Jones has entered the second week of his mammoth criminal trial. Which today heard about the moments one complainant confided in his brother and his then-girlfriend.

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00:02Talkback host Alan Jones is accused of kissing and touching six men without their consent.
00:08The first of the six, complainant Jay has finished giving evidence,
00:11accusing Mr Jones of assaulting him multiple times when he was 17 or 18.
00:16Today, his brother was under oath, telling the court he first heard about the allegations
00:21after Mr Jones' arrest in 2024.
00:24He says Jay asked to meet him days later at this McDonald's restaurant.
00:29He said to me, this is the hardest thing I've ever had to tell you.
00:32You've probably seen the news about the defendant.
00:35I'm one of the people who've come forward.
00:38Jay's brother says he asked Jay how bad it was.
00:41He said he didn't try to f*** me or anything like that.
00:44He would try, he would grab me on the c***, he'd kiss me.
00:48Prosecutors asked Jay's brother if he ever saw Mr Jones act inappropriately toward Jay.
00:54He says he didn't.
00:55The trial has also heard from Jay's ex-girlfriend.
00:58The only person Jay says he did confide in at the time.
01:02She says Jay came to her house straight from a trip to Mr Jones' Fitzroy Falls property in 2004.
01:09He walked through the door and I could see immediately something was up.
01:13I said, maybe you should report it.
01:15And he said no, a very firm no.
01:18Lawyers for Alan Jones say the broadcaster was very generous with Jay's family, helping Jay's brother to buy an engagement
01:25ring and sending him a dinner set as a wedding present.
01:30Court was cut short thanks to a fire alarm.
01:33Alan Jones was evacuated alongside everyone else.
01:37That was quite the dramatic way to end the day.
01:39Yeah.
01:40The End
01:42The End
01:42The End
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