Retired Sydney radio broadcaster and former Australian national rugby coach Alan Jones was charged Monday with multiple sex crimes against males over two decades, police said. The 83-year-old will appear in a Sydney court on Dec.

Australian police on Monday charged former radio show host Alan Jones with 24 assault and sexual touching offenses, indictments that followed accusations in a newspaper that Jones had assaulted young men for decades.

Veteran Australian broadcaster and former Wallabies coach Alan Jones has been arrested after an investigation into a series of sexual abuse allegations, local media have reported. New South Wales Police said detectives from the Child Abuse Squad took an 83-year-old man into custody at an apartment in Sydney's Circular Quay early on Monday morning,

Detectives from the New South Wales Police’s Child Abuse Squad arrested Mr Jones, 83, at his Circular Quay home in Sydney early on Monday morning. The arrest followed months of investigation by a strike force set up in March to examine reports of indecent assault and sexual touching between 2001 and 2019,