Ex-Man City Player Barton Gets Suspended Jail Term For Assaulting Wife

Joey Barton, a former player for Manchester City, was found guilty of assaulting his wife by beating her in the head at their family home, and he was given a 12-week suspended prison sentence on Tuesday.

After the incident in southwest London in June 2021, the former midfielder left Georgia Barton, 38, with a lump on her forehead and a bleeding nose.

After a drunken argument about a family issue, Barton, 42, grabbed his wife and shoved her to the ground before punching her in the head.

Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring, a judge in Westminster Magistrates’ Court, ruled that Barton’s account of events in evidence was “vague” and untrue.

Barton had “a record of violence,” the magistrate said, “I’m satisfied that an immediate custodial sentence is not required.”

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With a young child, Goldspring claimed the couple remained in a “happy relationship,” adding, “I don’t want to interfere with that.”

Barton was given a 12-week sentence with a two-year suspension and a fine of more than £2,500 ($2,600) in victim surcharges and legal costs.

At the time of the assault, Barton, who played for City, Newcastle, and Queen’s Park Rangers, was Bristol Rovers’ manager.

Barton’s wife, who claimed her husband had “just hit me,” called the police right away after the incident, but later later retorted her claims in a letter to the prosecution.

Georgia Barton’s 999 call to police on the night of the incident, according to prosecutor Helena Duong, was “compelling evidence” of the assault, as she had put it in “clear terms.”

According to the prosecutor, Barton’s wife did not have the same effects as Barton and she had suggested.

Barton previously testified to the court that he had admitted having an argument with his wife, but that nothing “physical” had actually happened.

In 2022, he was scheduled to go on trial, but Georgia Barton sent a letter to the prosecution retracting her claims.

She claimed in the letter that a friend’s move to separate the pair had caused her injuries accidentally.

Source: Channels TV