{
  "id": 1653444,
  "title": "‘Get real’: Complainant’s emotional outburst during Alan Jones trial",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/get-real-complainants-emotional-outburst-during-alan-jones-trial-1653444",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T06:39:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Age",
    "slug": "the-age",
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/get-real-complainant-s-emotional-outburst-during-alan-jones-trial-20260818-p60pax.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Complainant 'C' has told a Sydney court that his text messages to Alan Jones, the then-2GB host, were \"consistent with someone who had been groomed … on the way to talk to him\". According to Complainant C, he was allegedly groomed by Jones for a decade, starting when he was a young driver for the broadcaster.\n\nComplainant C has alleged that Jones indecently assaulted him on multiple occasions, including touching his penis and kissing him without consent. These alleged incidents occurred when Complainant C was in his early 20s and working with Jones in 2008.\n\nComplainant C has also alleged that another colleague witnessed one of the incidents, in which Jones allegedly groped his penis on the outside of his pants during a lunch in Mosman. Jones has pleaded not guilty to 22 charges related to six male complainants, including 20 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "‘Get real’: Complainant’s emotional outburst during Alan Jones trial",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/get-real-complainants-emotional-outburst-during-alan-jones-trial",
        "published": "2026-08-18T06:39:57.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}