BBC Sport
Former footballer Joey Barton has been found guilty of six counts of sending “grossly offensive” social media posts aimed at broadcaster Jeremy Vine and television pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.
Barton, 43, compared Aluko and Ward to the serial killer couple Fred and Rose West, and called Vine a “bike nonce” in posts sent between January and March 2024.
Jurors at Liverpool Crown Court accepted the prosecution’s argument that Barton, from Huyton in Merseyside, had “crossed the line between…
