Joey Barton in court over alleged attack that left wife with 'golf ball-sized lump' on head
Joey Barton in court over alleged attack that left wife with 'golf ball-sized lump' on head
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Joey Barton arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday to respond to charges of assaulting his wife Georgia. The court heard Barton allegedly shoved his wife to the floor and kicked her in the head in a drunken row while their children slept upstairs. It was told the former footballer also allegedly threatened to fight his wife's brother and father in a "verbal disagreement about a family matter". Barton then, it is claimed, "grabbed [Georgia] and pushed her to the ground and kicked her in the head".
As a friend tried to intervene, Barton "threw" him off and said "don't disrespect me", the trial heard. Georgia, who was left with a lump on her forehead and a bleeding nose, called police shortly after 11pm to "report she had been hit by her husband". During a tearful 999 call played to the court, she said: "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, Georgia 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.".
The former Bristol Rovers manager denies leaving his wife with a golf ball-sized lump on her head after drinking four bottles of wine. After calling the police, Mrs Barton later told prosecutors she did not support the case involving the alleged assault at their West London home, two days before their anniversary in June 2021.
