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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matt Watts

Joey Barton guilty of sending grossly offensive social media posts to Jeremy Vine and female football pundits

Former footballer Joey Barton has been convicted of sending grossly offensive social media posts about broadcaster Jeremy Vine and TV football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.

A jury at Liverpool Crown Court found Barton, 43, had “crossed the line between free speech and a crime” with six posts he made on X, formerly Twitter.

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