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TARGETED & EXTREME
Daily Record
|December 09, 2025
But Barton is spared jail for toxic posts
JOEY Barton had his bags packed when he arrived at courtbut he was spared jail for sending grossly offensive social media posts.
The ex-footballer got a six-month suspended sentence for posts directed at football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko, plus broadcaster Jeremy Vine.
He published an image with Lucy and Eni's faces on the bodies of serial killers Fred and Rose West - and insinuated Jeremy was a paedophile.
Sentencing, Judge Andrew Menary KC told Barton: “Robust debate, satire, mockery and even crude language may fall within permissible free speech. But when posts deliberately target individuals with vilifying comparisons to serial killers or false insinuations of paedophilia, designed to humiliate and distress, they forfeit their protection.
This story is from the December 09, 2025 edition of Daily Record.
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