Shane Jones and wife Dot say she was grabbed after altercation at Auckland Airport

Cabinet minister’s wife says she was allegedly grabbed by a man after altercation; Shane Jones claims the man was ‘incandescent’ with rage; Dot Jones says she wants other MPs’ spouses to know that the risk is real. The wife of Cabinet minister Shane Jones says she was grabbed on the shoulder at Auckland airport by a man who had shouted angry slurs at her husband. Dot Jones says she has laid a police complaint, saying politicians and their family should not be accosted while going about their lives.

She said she decided when approached by the Herald to speak publicly in part to highlight the risk MPs faced but also as a warning to other MPs’ spouses..