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Former UK soccer player and team manager Joey Barton was handed a suspended six month sentence on Monday for posting “offensive” messages on 𝕏.
A judge ruled last month that the 43-year-old retired athlete “crossed the line between free speech and a crime” in the social media posts.
One of the “grossly offensive” internet posts was Barton daring to call English television host and journalist Jeremy Vine a “bike nonce” after the TV and radio presenter suggested Barton had a “brain injury.”
The soccer star was also charged for a post comparing sports commentators Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko to English serial killers Fred and Rose West.
The suspended sentence means that over the next 18 months Barton must complete 200 hours of unpaid community service and pay £23,419 in prosecution costs or serve six months in jail.
The popular athlete is also forbidden from communicating with or posting anything about the “victims” on social media.
Barton believes he is a victim of “political prosecution,” but the jury concluded his conduct was beyond the legal limit, “amounting to a sustained campaign of online abuse that was not mere commentary but targeted, extreme and deliberately harmful.”
British political activist Tommy Robinson commented on the ruling, writing, “Another day in Starmer’s regime ‘Modern Britain’ as Joey Barton sentenced to a six-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months and made to do 200 hours of unpaid work. For the ‘crimes’ of social media posts deemed ‘intent to cause distress or anxiety’. Absolute joke of a system.”
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