Court also hears from four people who say they didn’t witness alleged offence against another complainant.
One of Alan Jones’s accusers has had his allegation withdrawn, with one charge of assault with an act of indecency dropped from the former broadcaster’s trial.
The allegation, dating from 2012 and brought by a complainant pseudonymised as F, was withdrawn by the prosecution in a Sydney court on Monday afternoon.
The charge had alleged Jones touched and squeezed the complainant’s bottom, on the outside of his clothing, at a public function in September 2012.
Jones still faces 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching.
Jones’s trial, now in its eighth week before Sydney’s Downing Centre local court, has heard evidence from three complainants: C, a former radio station colleague who testified about alleged incidents at work and at a lunch; J, a young athlete supported by Jones who gave evidence about alleged assaults at Jones’s Fitzroy Falls property; and M, a high-profile former athlete who said he was kissed twice without his consent.
M, a former high-profile athlete, told the court he “froze” when publicly kissed by Alan Jones at a sports function, but four people who attended the event have told a court they did not see anything untoward.
The sports star has accused Jones of kissing him without consent more than a decade ago at a sports function attended by hundreds of people.
On Monday, Judge Glenn Walsh expressed his frustration with witnesses of limited probative value being called before court, saying people who could not remember seeing Jones or the complainant at the event were of “little assistance” to the court.