Joey Barton has confirmed he’s to pay Jeremy Vine a additional £35,000 in damages, after additionally beforehand being instructed to pay £75,000.
Vine, 58, sued Barton, 41, for libel and harassment over 14 on-line posts, together with the place he known as Vine a ‘big bike nonce’ and a ‘pedo defender’ on X.
A High Court choose dominated in May that 11 of the posts might defame Vine.
Following the outcomes of the case, Barton, who performed for groups together with Manchester City, Newcastle United, Rangers, and French aspect Marseille throughout his profession, has taken to X to problem a additional replace.
‘I was sued for defamation and harassment by Jeremy Vine over posts published between 8 and 12 January 2024 which falsely accused him of having a sexual interest in children, and which were viewed millions of times,’ wrote Barton.
‘Mr Vine issued proceedings and, after being served with his claim, I published information relating to his home address on my X account, published a crowdfunding appeal which falsely alleged that Mr Vine had published baseless and unwarranted defamatory allegations about me, in an attempt to raise funds from the public, and I harassed Mr Vine, including by referring to him being run over on his bicycle.’
Barton arrange a GoFundMe web page to elevate money for his authorized charges, which raised over £100,000.
‘My actions led Mr Vine to bring additional claims against me in defamation, harassment, and misuse of private information,’ he continued.
‘I recognise that the allegations I made in the crowdfunding appeal were untrue, and that I infringed Mr Vine’s rights by misusing his non-public data and harassing him, doing so after he had sought to resolve our dispute via the Court.
‘The authentic proceedings have been compromised on the premise of the cost of damages and prices.
‘To resolve Mr Vine’s extra claims towards me in defamation, harassment, and misuse of personal data, I’ve agreed not to make the identical allegations or undertake the identical conduct once more in relation to Mr Vine, and I apologise to him for the misery he has suffered.
‘I have agreed to pay Mr Vine a further £35,000 in damages and his legal costs.’
Vine acknowledged final month that the earlier £75,000 in damages and apology from Barton have been not the final outcome of the case.
‘The news of Joey Barton’s apology and dedication to pay damages and prices is just not the ultimate end result of this case,’ he wrote on X.
‘After 5 defamatory tweets, my lawyer provided Barton a likelihood to settle: pay £75k, plus my prices, and apologize.
‘He ignored that provide and posted more disgusting tweets about me, even publishing my residence deal with to his followers.
‘When I then took my case to the High Court, a choose dominated that TEN of the tweets I complained of have been defamatory.
‘Having misplaced, Barton has returned to the provide we made after tweet 5. There has subsequently been a parallel motion on tweets 6-10 and Barton will pay additional damages for these.
‘A number of other steps — including statements made in Court by way of apology — are still to be taken, and Barton has agreed to pay my legal costs of all of the claims.’
Barton additionally posted an apology in June.
At the listening to, Gervase de Wilde, representing Vine, stated that the posts contained ‘clear references to (Mr Vine) having a sexual interest in children’ and that the phrase ‘nonce’ had ‘an irreducible, defamatory meaning’.
William McCormick KC, for Barton, stated on the earlier listening to that the posts contained ‘vulgar abuse’ however didn’t libel Vine, and represented ‘someone who is posting in the heat of the moment’.
News of Vine’s authorized motion towards Barton first got here in January, when Barton posted a picture to X – which was swiftly deleted however seen by Metro.co.uk – that included a {photograph} of a pre-action letter denoting a declare for defamation and harassment.
The letter warned that the doc was confidential and shouldn’t be made public in any method, or else it could lead to Vine in search of extra damages.
Barton shared the paperwork on-line anyway with a caption that learn: ‘So @theJeremyVine is suing me,’ together with a collection of crying-laughing emojis and the hashtag ‘#bikenonce.’
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