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Former footballer Joey Barton found guilty of assaulting wife

Former footballer Joey Barton, age 42, was found guilty of assaulting his 38-year-old wife, Georgia Barton, at their family home in Kew, south-west London, in June 2021.
The assault occurred after a drunken night out with two other couples, while their children were sleeping upstairs.
During the assault, Barton grabbed, pushed, and kicked his wife in the head, leaving her with a lump on her forehead and a bleeding nose.
Despite Mrs. Barton initially calling the police saying her husband had "just hit me" and later retracting her allegations in a letter stating she was just angry and was not a victim of violence, prosecutor Helena Duong presented Mrs. Barton's 999 call as compelling evidence, stating that the bloody nose was "plainly, something not caused by an accident."
Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring rejected Barton's "vague" account of events and, after a two-day trial, sentenced him to a 12-week suspended prison sentence at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

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