New South Wales police say they have charged former radio titan Alan Jones with an additional offence, bringing the total number of his alleged victims to 11.
Police said on Friday they had charged the 83-year-old former Sydney radio host with an additional count of assault with act of indecency.
Jones is due to appear before Sydney’s Downing Centre local court on 11 March in relation to the latest charge.
He was charged in November with 26 historical sexual assault offences alleged to have occurred against nine people spanning almost two decades.
In December, police charged Jones with an additional eight indecent assault offences alleged to have occurred against a 10th victim.
Police allege the offences took place between 2001 and 2019, and say the youngest of the alleged victims was 17 at the time.
Jones appeared for the first time at the Downing Centre local court in December, where it was confirmed he would face a jury trial and his lawyer said he would plead not guilty to the 34 charges.
The offences allegedly occurred in several different locations across NSWincluding Newtown, Sydney city, Fitzroy Falls and Alexandria, according to court documents.
On Friday, NSW police said detectives from the child abuse squad detectives had laid the additional charge, bringing Jones’s total number of alleged offences to 35.
Police set up Strike Force Bonnefin in March last year to investigate a number of alleged indecent assaults and sexual touching incidents allegedly involving Jones.
Historical allegations indecent assault against Jones were raised in December 2023 by the Sydney Morning Herald’s investigative reporter Kate McClymont.
In response Jones denied all wrongdoing and said he was planning legal action against Nine newspapers for the “demonstrably false” allegations.
Jones dominated breakfast radio in Sydney for 35 years until the then 79-year-old announced his retirement and stepped away from daily broadcasting in May 2020.
The former 2GB broadcaster was arrested at his luxury unit in Sydney’s Circular Quay on 18 November last year after a “long, thorough, protracted” investigation.
In November, when the first charges were laid against Jones, the NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, told reporters police were anticipating more people coming forward.
Jones allegedly committed 11 offences against one man between 2008 and 2009, including touching his inner thigh, rubbing his penis and kissing him on the mouth, according to police charge sheets.
According to the charge sheets, the man who allegedly had 11 offences committed against him, known as Complainant C, was an employee of Jones, adding an element of aggravation because he was under the authority of Jones.
The ages of the victims are not disclosed in the charge sheets but police have said previously the youngest was 17 at the time of the offence.
After his first court appearance in December, Jones stopped for a moment outside to speak to the throng of journalists that had surrounded him.
“I am certainly not guilty, and I’ll be presenting my case to a jury, as you heard this morning,” he said at the time.
