Former footballer Joey Barton kicked his wife in the head during a row at their family home, a court has heard. Barton, 42, is accused of assaulting Georgia Barton, 38, in Kew, south-west London in June 2021. Prosecutor Helena Duong said the pair had been drinking with two other couples when they started arguing after Barton threatened to fight his wife’s dad and brother.
![[Joey Barton and his wife Georgia Barton at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, where the former footballer is accused of assaulting his wife. Picture date: Friday January 24, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Barton. Photo credit should read: Lucy North/PA Wire]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237176942-4c4f-e1737733371979.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
She told Westminster Magistrates’ Court the ex-Man City and QPR midfielder ‘grabbed [Georgia] and pushed her to the ground and kicked her in the head’. Their pals were said to have tried to pull Barton off her but he allegedly ‘threw’ one of them off and warned: ‘Don’t disrespect me.’.
![[Joey Barton at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, where the former footballer is accused of assaulting his wife Georgia Barton. Picture date: Friday January 24, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Barton. Photo credit should read: Lucy North/PA Wire]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_237154056-2328.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Mrs Barton called the police shortly after 11pm on June 2 to ‘report she had been hit by her husband’, the court heard. The pair had both drunk ‘four or five bottles of wine’, a previous hearing was told. During the 999 call played to the court, a tearful Mrs Barton told the operator: ‘Me husband’s just hit me in the house.
‘He’s in the house, I’m outside.’. Asked if anything similar had happened before, she said: ‘No, it’s the first time’, adding that she had been hit ‘in the face’. When police arrived at around 11:30pm, Mrs Barton told them: ‘I’ve been pushed down and kicked about and stuff.
‘He said he was going to fight with my brother and my dad.’. A police officer asked Mrs Barton if she wanted to use an ice pack for the ‘bump’ on her head, the court heard. Barton was arrested at about midnight in his bedroom, where he had been asleep, and was still drunk, the trial was told.
