The high‑profile trial of 85‑year‑old radio personality Alan Jones continues at Downing Centre Local Court, where he has pleaded not guilty to 19 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching without consent, alleged to have occurred between 2003 and 2020 involving five men.

The fourth complainant, identified only as “H”, told the court he was chatting with Jones and two others at a packed Sydney function when Jones placed a hand on his upper back, moved it down his spine and rested it on his bottom, an act he says he did not consent to.

During the same hearing, a woman who was a work colleague of “H” recounted that she asked him several days after the event how the night had gone. She said he appeared “stunned and upset”, and that he described Jones’s hand moving down his back and across his buttocks.

Defence barrister Michael Burke cross‑examined the witness, suggesting that her memory of the police interview given five years later was unclear and that her account might be an exaggeration. The witness rejected the suggestion, stating that the complainant’s facial expression and demeanor “sticks with me now” and that she remembered the conversation vividly, even if she could not recall the exact date.

The court was shown text messages exchanged between the witness and “H” before she gave her police statement. In those messages she wrote that she hoped Jones would be charged, while “H” replied, “everything needs to be perfect”. On the day of Jones’s arrest, the witness texted, “and so it begins”, to which “H” responded, “How good!”. The witness acknowledged she did not mention these messages to police, noting that prosecutors did not ask about them.

The colleague’s former boss also testified, confirming attendance at the function but stating she did not observe the alleged touch and did not pay close attention to Jones that evening.

With the testimony of the fourth complainant and the new evidence presented, the number of alleged victims in the case has fallen to five. Jones maintains his innocence on all charges as the trial proceeds.