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BARTON 'NONCE' SLUR LIBEL LOSS
Daily Star
|May 25, 2024
First court round in Vine's favour
JOEY Barton has lost the first leg of his libel battle with Jeremy Vine after branding the BBC broadcaster a “bike nonce”.
The former footballer’s lawyer had claimed it was an “obvious attempt at humorous abuse”.
But a High Court judge ruled the slur Barton used on X – formerly Twitter – was defamatory.
This story is from the May 25, 2024 edition of Daily Star.
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