Joey Barton guilty over ‘offensive’ X posts

Former footballer Joey Barton was found guilty of six counts of sending “grossly offensive” social media posts directed at broadcaster Jeremy Vine and TV football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.

In posts sent between January and March 2024, Barton, 43, likened Aluko and Ward to serial killer couple Fred and Rose West and called Vine a “bicycle nonce,” a slang term for pedophile.