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Part of the evidence of the final complainant in the Alan Jones trial can now be reported including an admission from the man he lied to police about a separate alleged assault. The man known as complainant "A" has accused Mr Jones of kissing him as a 17-year-old schoolboy. He agreed the broadcaster was very generous to him but says he still feels shame over the alleged assault.

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00:01In week 12 of his indecent assault trial, Alan Jones is still smiling.
00:07The remaining evidence of the final complainant can now be reported after a court order was lifted.
00:12The complainant says he was 17 when Alan Jones kissed him on the mouth and touched his bottom
00:17during a visit to his Southern Highlands farmstay.
00:20He first complained to police the following year but asked for no investigation.
00:25Mr Jones' defence team says it's made up.
00:28Alan Jones did not kiss you on the mouth, did he?
00:31That's not a true statement, Ms Bashir.
00:33You and Mr Jones hugged goodnight and nothing more.
00:36That's correct, isn't it?
00:38No, Ms Bashir, that is not correct.
00:40In a heated cross-examination, complainant A admitted he lied to police about an unrelated
00:46assault by someone else years later.
00:48The court heard he presented to hospital with an injury that he'd done to himself,
00:53later telling police that he was really assaulted but two weeks earlier
00:57and that he'd recreated an injury because he wanted to be believed.
01:01Any assertions by you that your injuries were occasioned by an assault on the previous day
01:06were lies, weren't they?
01:08Yeah, no assault had occurred on that date.
01:10So, they were lies.
01:12That is correct.
01:13The defence says this complainant lacks credibility.
01:16Also questioning him about the money and the assistance that he and his mother received
01:21from Alan Jones over many years, even after the alleged indecent assault.
01:26Mr Jones has been nothing but kind and generous to you, hasn't he?
01:30Mr Jones has been generous to me over the years, but the word nothing is not correct.
01:35Illness has swept Mr Jones' defence team, delaying the trial until Monday,
01:40when it's due to hear from police who investigated Mr Jones.
01:44Mr Jones,ogenexe, police officers, police officers, police officers, police officers,
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