Joey Barton's trial for allegedly assaulting his wife has been delayed after she wrote a letter to prosecutors in a bid to 'exculpate' her husband, a court has heard
Joey Barton's trial for allegedly assaulting his wife during a drunken row has been delayed after she wrote a letter to prosecutors in a bid to "exculpate" her husband, a court has heard.The former Premier League footballer's barrister Simon Csoka QC said Georgia Barton now claims she was injured accidentally when friends intervened in the argument with her husband after drinking "four or five bottles of wine each".
He is alleged to have grabbed his wife by the throat and kicked her in the head during a row outside their home in Kew, south-west London, where they had been with two other couples on June 2 last year. However, the court heard she had sent a letter to the Crown Prosecution Service on February 17, followed up with two emails, which had only been seen by prosecutor Helena Duong on Friday morning."Mr Barton is married to the alleged victim in this case and they continue to be in a relationship," said Ms Duong."She has given an account some eight months after the incident and, in the Crown's submission, it is plainly an attempt to exculpate her husband.
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