Alan Jones, Australian rugby’s most successful coach of all time and an influential media figure, was charged on Monday with a string of sexual offences spanning nearly two decades. Detectives from the New South Wales Child Abuse Squad arrested Jones ...

The retired radio host, who was granted bail after being arrested, was accused of abusing eight victims over nearly 20 years.

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.