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Former UK soccer player and team manager Joey Barton was found guilty Friday on six counts of posting “offensive” messages on 𝕏, in the latest example of Britain becoming a draconian anti-free speech hellhole.
A Liverpool Crown Court jury ruled 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.”
Barton asked, “Have you been on Epstein Island? Are you going to be on these flight logs? Might as well own up now because I’d phone the police if I saw you near a primary school on ya bike.”
“Oh @the JeremyVine Did you Rolf-aroo and Schofield go out on a tandem bike ride? You big bike nonce ya,” reads another one of the posts that Barton was charged over.
Others said, “If you see this fella by a primary school call 999” and “Beware Man with Camera on his helmets cruising past primary schools. Call the Cops if spotted.”
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.
He called Ward and Aluko the “Fred and Rose West of football commentary.”
In court, Barton said he “would probably not do it again if he had his time again,” adding he believes Ward and Aluko are “strong enough” to deal with the joke.
However, a prosecutor said Barton “targeted and bullied them” and “crossed the line between exercising a democratic right to freedom of expression and a crime” by “sending messages of an extreme, degrading and dehumanizing character.”
The prosecutor added, “It was not some robust exchange of firmly held views or, as he would like you to believe, an attempt to generate an online debate It was undiluted bullying. It was a campaign of such bullying by the deployment of grossly offensive messages — with the intention of sending them to cause distress, anxiety or humiliation.”
During the court proceeding, Judge Andrew Menary KC was triggered Barton wore a Union Jack patterned scarf as the verdicts were returned, telling the court, “He has chosen to adorn himself with a particular flag which I suppose is a stunt to make a point. He will not be permitted to do that on the sentencing date.”
Barton posted bail, but will be sentenced on December 8.
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