Alleged victim of Alan Jones made broadcaster soft-boiled eggs with soldiers and ironed his underpants, court told

Alan Jones arriving at his indecent assault trial in Sydney this week. The former broadcaster, 85, has denied all 22 charges. Photograph: Don Arnold/WireImage View image in fullscreen Alan Jones arriving at his indecent assault trial in Sydney this week. The former broadcaster, 85, has denied all 22 charges. Photograph: Don Arnold/WireImage Alleged victim of Alan Jones made broadcaster soft-boiled eggs with soldiers and ironed his underpants, court told Former 2UE and 2GB radio broadcaster is facing 22 indecent assault and sexual touching charges. Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A driver for Alan Jones felt violated and trapped when the broadcaster kissed him but didn’t complain due to the "extraordinary” power dynamic between them. Complainant C detailed the escalating interactions between him and Jones at the 2GB host’s indecent assault trial on Friday. Mimicking Jones’s alleged movements, C described the first time the broadcaster touched his penis. While driving, C felt Jones’s hand go from his knee, up to his left leg and over his penis on the outside of his pants. The young man froze up, and asked how he felt, C answered: “violated”. “I never had a man touch me on the penis before,” he told Downing Centre Local court. C never said anything because he was scared, he told the court, and similar incidents occurred again and again for weeks, before Jones allegedly tried to kiss him. The driver had parked Jones’s car in an underground lot underneath his apartment and was carrying the radio host’s jacket in his left hand, and his brief case in his right. The two entered the lift and C walked to the back as Jones came towards him, the doors shutting from behind. His face encroached on C’s, but with hands full the driver could only attempt to drop his head, putting his chin to his neck and try avoid Jones. C mimicked the motion, shaking his head and saying “no no no no” repeatedly. “I didn’t want him to kiss me,” C said, his voice breaking as he began to cry. Jones allegedly did the same on two more occasions, putting his hand on C’s face before going in to kiss him on the lips. “A kiss is two people kissing each other and I never leant forward. “I closed my mouth as tight as possible and just dealt with it.” C would try to drop Jones off in front of his apartment and hope the broadcaster would get out so he could avoid the elevator ride. “If I was lucky, he’d get out, if I wasn’t, he’d point to the underground car park,” he said. In the tight confines of the elevator, with his hands full carrying Jone’s stuff, C said: “I felt trapped”. But he felt like he couldn’t tell anyone else about what had happened – worrying they wouldn’t be sympathetic - nor ask Jones to stop. “It was hard to explain now but the power dynamic was extraordinary,” C said. “This bloke was my boss, he owned the radio station, I couldn’t say no.” A driver for Alan Jones aspired to be a producer but was required to make the 2GB host’s breakfast of soft-boiled eggs with bread soldiers, clean his bathroom at the radio station and iron underpants, a Sydney court has heard. Complainant C told Jones’s indecent assault trial on Friday he was “star-struck” when the broadcaster offered to pay him $40,000 a year to be his driver in the mid-2000s. It was his dream job, C said in Downing Centre Local court. C was unofficially a producer but was known as Jones’s driver at 2GB and his duties included household tasks at Jones’s Macquarie Street apartment. There were menial tasks like photocopying to be done at the radio station. “Alan had a kitchen in his office and I had to make soft-boiled eggs and Burgen bread … and cut it into soldiers,” C said on Friday. “I took it in on a tray and had a cloth napkin on my arm.” C said he had to loiter around the studio waiting for an opportunity to go in because if he left the empty tray too long he was berated by the broadcaster. “It was pretty aggressive; ‘get this out of here’ sort of thing,” C said when questioned by prosecutor Georgina Wright. Jones has pleaded not guilty to 20 indecent assault charges and two counts of sexual touching against six men. Complainant C, the second alleged victim to give evidence at the trial, told the court he grew up listening to talkback radio and all he ever wanted to do was work at a radio station. But, C said, he did not want to be a chauffeur or a butler. After the show ended each day he drove Jones home, the court was told. C wanted to go back and work at the radio station but was often required to complete household tasks under the direction of Jones’s butler. He said he was given the smaller items to iron, including handkerchiefs and underpants. “If I stuffed it up it wouldn’t have been the end of the world,” C said. C started working at 2GB when he was 18 years old. View image in fullscreen A court sketch shows Alan Jones taking notes during his trial. Photograph: Rocco Fazzari/AAP He was given a foot in the door by fellow shockjock Ray Hadley, who paid him for three months out of his own pocket before he secured full-time employment. Complainant C didn’t sign a contract because Jones told him contracts tended to “intimidate young people”, he told the court. “I just wanted to work in radio,” C said. “It was a dream to work at that radio station, and to be able to say I worked with Alan Jones was as good as it gets for a young kid who wants to work in radio.” One of his tasks was to deliver flowers to people for Jones, and he remembered delivering them to a diver before they won an Olympic gold medal. Explore more on these topics Alan Jones trial Alan Jones Sydney Australian media news Share Reuse this content