He kicked his wife against his head
English ex-international sentenced to probation penalty
26.03.2025 – 06:46 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Manchester City’s former professional had kicked his wife against his head. He is relevant to the preliminary and was in jail a few years ago.
Because he physically attacked his wife, the former football professional Joey Barton was convicted. The former English international received a twelve -week suspended sentence.
The 42-year-old is said to have pushed his wife Georgia to the ground in her alcoholic state in June 2021 and kicked her head. A court decided that. Despite Barton’s “violent history”, as the judge emphasized, a prison sentence was dispensed with. Barton continues to live with his wife, the couple has a small child.
The former midfielder, who played for Manchester City and Olympique Marseille among others, always caused negative headlines during his active career. So he injured a youth player by putting an eye on a cigar in his eye, having a player ready for hospital and putting a bloody facial injury to the then Barnsley coach Daniel Stendel.
In 2007, Barton spent 74 days in prison for an attack on a passerby in Liverpool.