From underpants to the ultimate humiliation: Alan Jones, creeping and complainant ‘C’

August 15, 2026 — 5:00am

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Everything came creeping. The professional relationship that broke into friendship on the long drive to Fitzroy Falls, the slide of its expression from formal handwritten letters to text message banter, the early days of eviscerating dress-downs that were somehow replaced by terms of endearment and declarations of love.

A hand placed on a knee.

That came creeping too, according to Alan Jones’s former driver, known as Complainant C in the former broadcaster’s trial over charges of sexual touching. It did not slide up that first time, when the complainant said he gently brushed Jones’s hand away, as they drove from Jones’ office to his apartment on Macquarie Street.

But on subsequent drives along the same route, Jones’ hand allegedly lingered longer and climbed up to “C”’s inner groin, he said, before one day brushing across his penis, then rubbing it through his pants.

Three years earlier, “C” had been delighted to meet Jones when they sat near each........

© The Sydney Morning Herald