Former Manchester City footballer Joey Barton was Tuesday given a 12-week suspended jail sentence after being discovered responsible of assaulting his spouse by kicking her within the head at their household dwelling.
The former midfielder left Georgia Barton, 38, with a lump on her brow and a bleeding nostril after the incident in southwest London, in June 2021.
Barton, 42, grabbed his spouse and pushed her to the bottom earlier than kicking her within the head after a drunken row a few household matter.
Sentencing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, chief Justice of the Peace Paul Goldspring rejected Barton’s account of occasions given throughout proof as untruthful and “vague”.
While he acknowledged Barton had “a record of violence”, the Justice of the Peace stated: “I am satisfied that it is not necessary to impose an immediate custodial sentence.”
Goldspring stated the couple remained in a “happy relationship” with a younger little one, including: “That is not something I want to interfere with.”
Barton was handed a 12-week sentence suspended for 2 years and ordered to pay greater than £2,000 ($2,600) in sufferer surcharge and prosecution prices.
Barton, who performed for numerous golf equipment together with City, Newcastle and Queen’s Park Rangers, was supervisor of Bristol Rovers on the time of the assault.
Barton’s spouse had known as police instantly after the incident, saying her husband had “just hit me”, however later despatched a letter to prosecutors retracting her allegations.
Prosecutor Helena Duong advised the court docket that Georgia Barton’s 999 name to police on the night time of the incident was “compelling evidence” of the assault, as she had described it in “clear terms”.
Barton’s spouse was not as affected by alcohol as each she and Barton had instructed, the prosecutor stated.
Barton beforehand advised the court docket he admitted entering into an argument along with his spouse, however denied that something “physical” had occurred.
He was attributable to face trial in 2022 however the case was adjourned after Georgia Barton despatched a letter to prosecutors retracting her allegations.
In the letter, she stated her accidents had been attributable to accident when a pal moved in to separate the pair.
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