Former footballer Joey Barton has been found guilty of six counts of sending “grossly offensive” social media posts directed at broadcaster Jeremy Vine and TV football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.
Barton, 43, had compared Aluko and Ward to the serial killer couple Fred and Rose West, and called Vine a “bike nonce”, a slang term for a paedophile, in posts sent between January and March 2024.
