A schoolboy is said to have gone to police more than six years ago to claim he was indecently assaulted by former radio star and Wallabies coach Alan Jones.
The claim, published by the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, came despite NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb saying last week that no police complaints had been made about 82-year-old Jones.
“I understand at this stage that no one has made a complaint to the police, but if they do, we will obviously take up that investigation and investigate the matter fully,” Ms Webb said on Friday.
Jones, a former broadcaster, lecturer and sports coach, has denied allegations that appeared in Nine newspapers last week about his alleged behavior towards a radio worker, a waiter, a musician and a young businessman who has since died.
A schoolboy is said to have gone to police more than six years ago claiming he had been indecently assaulted by former radio star Alan Jones (pictured). Jones denies all allegations of assault made against him
The Herald reported that the schoolboy claimed he was attacked by Jones when he was invited to spend a weekend at Jones' home in the Fitzroy Falls in January 2017.
The boy reported the matter to the police, but the matter did not go further.
A police spokesperson told Ny Breaking Australia that the NSW Sex Crimes Squad was “made aware early on Friday afternoon that a previous (alleged) victim from a case reported to police in 2017 may be willing to engage further with police.” to go to sea.
“That person is currently abroad and investigators will contact him this week.”
They added that 'as no victim is willing to make a complaint to the police at this time, it is correct that no investigation is currently underway.'
Jones – one of Australia's most influential broadcasters as a radio presenter on 2UE and 2GB from 1985 to 2020 – has threatened to sue Nine newspapers for defamation over their reporting.
A spokesperson for Jones' lawyers reportedly warned the Herald that reporting on this young man's claim could lead to “aggravated damages in the announced defamation proceedings.”
Peta Credlin – former chief of staff to Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott – wrote separately in the Sunday Telegraph this weekend, defending Jones.
“What happened to the rule of law in this country where allegations of abuse go first to the media and not to the police?” she wrote.
Ms Credlin said the media allegations meant people were being “dragged through the mud and the damage was being done, even if police might later conclude there is no evidence to even lay charges, let alone to win the case in court'.
Credlin, who has a show on Sky News, said Jones “was and is friendly”.
“I know dozens and dozens of people he has helped, causes he has supported out of his own pocket and done so quietly. “I judge people as I find them,” she said.
In a statement released last Thursday, Jones' lawyer Mark O'Brien said: “The allegations against Alan Jones by Kate McClymont published in the Nine newspapers today are demonstrably false.”
Fellow Conservative commentator Peta Credlin has said Alan Jones (pictured) 'was and is kind'
“In the short time available since publication, we have obtained substantial factual information that contradicts and refutes Mr. Jones' alleged pattern of conduct.
“We have retained Senior Counsel and have been instructed to immediately serve a Concern Notice under Section 12A of the Defamation Act as the first step in initiating defamation proceedings.
'No further comment will be made by or on behalf of Mr Jones.'