Joey Barton took his intellectual persona in court on Tuesday afternoon. He walked in wearing a thick paperback from Christopher Hitchens essays about politics, literature and religion, entitled, entitled, and was charmed when asked him to get into the dock.
“OK to leave my coat and that here?” He asked a judicial officer. Within a few hours he fluctuated somewhat in his chair because it became clear that he was about to be convicted of attacking his wife, Georgina, by pulling her to the ground by kicking her hair and her, a 'golf-ball-sized' lump to her head that left her phone to the emergency services.
Barton, convicted by senior district judge Paul Goldspring, who reminded him that “the only place where your wife has the right to feel at home”, avoided the prison. Partly because his two previous criminal convictions – for Affray and battery, and abuse with actually physical injury – came 15 years ago.
But the pseudo-intellectual veneer of the Portly 42-year-old with uile glasses, black rolling neck top and manicured goatee was removed.
If someone was still about Barton under illusions, this process exposed him to the dirty, violent and despicable person he really is. He showed no emotion when a 12 -week prison sentence, two years suspended, was imposed.
Barton knew exactly how to play things when the police started investigating the Klomp and the bloody nose that was sustained by his visibly needing, yet completely coherent woman late on a warm June evening that the couple had spent with friends in 2021. He was compatible with the police officers who found him in bed when he came to interview him to interview him the morning.
But there was a 'no comment' on every question they asked him under caution at a police station. He refused to cooperate because he was a 'high -profile figure' and 'just wanted to' go home, “Barton's lawyer Simon Csoka KC told the judge yesterday.
Mr. Csoka also brought Barton's career into play as a former football player. How can a lump on the head consistent with Mrs Barton “be kicked in the head by a former professional football player?” he asked. “You would expect that there are cracks.”
As in so many cases of domestic violence, Mrs. Barton decided to withdraw her evidence. A test date approached and she was pregnant with their child.
She wrote to officers of justice to say that she had been under the influence of a drink and was unable to remember events well. But her friends on stage that night saw Barton for what he was. Another woman who was there, mentioned in court as Jan, refused to testify in a way that could support him. The judge saw that as important.
Barton heard his version of events calmly taken apart by the judge in court 1. His claim that he had been to bed when Mrs. Barton's injury was sustained not even counting with the story of his wife.
The judge did not even bother to treat the suggestion, Mrs Barton's use of the word 'just' – when she said that her husband 'just hit' – was a Liverpudlian speech figure, which means that her call to the police did not come immediately after the blow. “It's a scouse expression. In almost every sentence, some scousers can be said, “said Mr. Csoka. He seemed to hold on to straws.
By 4.30 pm on Tuesday, Barton – who did not work in football since Bristol Rovers dismissed him 18 months ago and would certainly never do this again – was asked if he had the money to pay the £ 2.055 costs of the prosecutor and warned that further episodes would go to prison.
Some will not consider the decision to consider him astonishingly, given that over the years he has affected people with some consistency and has shown no repentance after each attack. Barton hit Manchester City Mate Ousmane Dabo on a training ground and claimed: 'He was not a natural hunter. I'm off the streets. There is your difference. '
He attacked a 15-year-old at a McDonald's in Liverpool and was imprisoned for six months. “I went for the Gobbiest child, hit him once and dropped him,” he explained later. He was accused of leaving Barnsley -manager Daniel Stendel with a damn sight after a tunnel notification while he was in charge of Fleetwood, although it was released from abh.
The prison sentence of six months in 2008, half of which he served, was part of a trip to self-improvement, he said a chance to read books about Buddhist principles and the drug culture of the Tour de France. His philosopher of the working class Shtick then held. He was invited to the questions of the BBC.
But in recent years, expressions have brought so disgusting that some people wonder about the mental health of Barton. A non -printable and cruel tirade against Jeremy Vine led the broadcaster to successfully sue him for defamation. Social media reports about the former football player Eni Aluko saw him being accused of making malignant communication.
The most despicable of all, he fired the murder of Anthony Walker, killed by a slap on the head with a 2ft IJsbijl, inflicted by Barton's racist brother and racist cousin, as a result of a 'f ****** scrap'.
Barton stayed behind the courtroom after his conviction, stared in his phone and took a message before he walked away with his legal team and the Hitchens book, of which he is a fifth, still under his arm.
Given his unemployment, it seems likely that he will have a lot of reading time, although a tweet he released last night suggested the usual lack of repentance, despite the carefully argued judgment read by the judge, who remembered him and the court Mrs Barton was the “victim in this case.”
“Really disappointed in the decision of the magistrate,” Barton tweeted. “I intend to appeal against this decision to a higher court, the Kroonhof and although this process is underway, that is everything I will say about this.”
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