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A high-profile athlete has denied making up an allegation that he was kissed by Alan Jones at a public event, telling a court that he can't get it out of his memory. During cross examination lawyers for the veteran broadcaster argued that their client had been in COVID isolation at the time of a second alleged assault.

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00:02Alan Jones has been accused of assaulting a prominent athlete,
00:05complainant M, in a room full of people in 2015.
00:08An allegation Alan Jones says couldn't have happened.
00:12The broadcaster's lawyers have cross-examined M for a second day,
00:16using dozens of photos of the event to suggest Mr Jones was not nearby at the time.
00:22I know the kiss happened because I can't get it out of my memory, the complainant said.
00:26What I do know and what I have been able to say very clearly, I know.
00:30What I may not be able to give is who was sitting at my table, what direction I was facing.
00:35Mr Jones texted M later that night, saying he hoped the athlete could feel his kisses,
00:41but the defence says that's just how their client speaks.
00:44A later message from another day, reading,
00:47Feel my kisses, darling, all over.
00:49He hadn't kissed you that day? No.
00:51You hadn't even seen each other, had you? No.
00:54M accepts he maintained text contact with Mr Jones,
00:58at one point sending him a topless picture he'd just had taken in a photo shoot.
01:03He previously told the court his best recollection is the second alleged kiss
01:08happened on the evening of 19 March 2020 at his Macquarie Street apartment.
01:13Mr Jones' defence presented photos showing the broadcaster on air
01:17from Fitzroy Falls that morning in COVID isolation.
01:21I suggest you don't know when you saw him at Macquarie Street.
01:24I'm not 100% certain of the date.
01:28Complainant M snapped back at times under repeated accusations from Alan Jones' lawyers
01:33that the assaults didn't happen.
01:35He maintains he's unsure of the date, but says he's had time to replay the memories,
01:40and they are still clear.
01:42He'll be back for re-examination tomorrow.
01:44All right.
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