Alan Jones claims invalid warrants, police impropriety and ‘willy-nilly’ search in sex abuse investigation

Police stand accused of engaging in impropriety when raiding the home of former shock jock Alan Jones during a sexual assault investigation. Officers searched the 85-year-old’s Sydney home in November 2024 after an eight-month investigation into reports of historical sexual abuse. On Tuesday, his lawyers told Sydney’s Downing Centre local court the NSW police should reveal which officers accessed or downloaded material from his phone and through intercepted calls, claiming the search warrants could be invalid. “The phone was seized and the evidence to date suggests it was then searched willy-nilly,” his barrister Gabrielle Bashir SC said. On its face the search warrant was “bad”, she continued, partly because it referred to Jones being accused of sexual intercourse without consent among other offences. These were not the charges the radio veteran was eventually hit with, Bashir argued. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Jones has pleaded not guilty to 25 charges of indecent assault and two charges of sexual touching against nine alleged victims over nearly two decades when he ruled the airwaves. Bashir flagged her client might apply to either temporarily or permanently halt the proceedings, or argue certain evidence be tossed because it was obtained unlawfully. Representing the NSW police commissioner, barrister Peter Singleton said there was no evidence officers had engaged in any sort of impropriety or that the warrant itself was invalid. …