US EditionFormer footballer Joey Barton found guilty of assaulting wife
- Former footballer Joey Barton, age 42, was found guilty of assaulting his 38-year-old wife, Georgia Barton, at their family home in Kew, south-west London, in June 2021.
- The assault occurred after a drunken night out with two other couples, while their children were sleeping upstairs.
- During the assault, Barton grabbed, pushed, and kicked his wife in the head, leaving her with a lump on her forehead and a bleeding nose.
- Despite Mrs. Barton initially calling the police saying her husband had "just hit me" and later retracting her allegations in a letter stating she was just angry and was not a victim of violence, prosecutor Helena Duong presented Mrs. Barton's 999 call as compelling evidence, stating that the bloody nose was "plainly, something not caused by an accident."
- Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring rejected Barton's "vague" account of events and, after a two-day trial, sentenced him to a 12-week suspended prison sentence at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
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