The defence team of Alan Jones, one of Australia's most prominent former radio broadcasters, has told a Sydney court that a complainant invented intimate details about alleged indecent assaults to "humiliate" and "smear" the 85-year-old. During cross-examination at Downing Centre Local Court, defence barrister Gabrielle Bashir SC challenged the complainant, identified only as J, over accounts of alleged sexual touching at Jones's rural property in Fitzroy Falls (a farm in New South Wales's southern highlands), arguing inconsistencies between his police statement and court testimony suggested fabrication. Jones has pleaded not guilty to 22 indecent assault and sexual touching charges involving six men, and the trial is ongoing.