Jeremy Vine says Joey Barton agreeing to pay £75,000 in damages is NOT the ultimate consequence in libel case – after ex-footballer lied and falsely claimed BBC star had a ‘sexual curiosity in youngsters’

Jeremy Vine has mentioned that Joey Barton agreeing to pay him £75,000 in damages will not be the ultimate consequence of their libel case. 

In a press release revealed on X he claimed that Barton had rejected an preliminary proposal to pay the 5 determine sum and subject an apology. 

On prime of this Barton then proceed to jot down extra tweets to his followers about Vine, together with releasing his dwelling tackle, that means that he’ll possible need to pay extra in damages. 

Vine mentioned: ‘The information of Joey Barton’s apology and dedication to pay damages and prices will not be the ultimate consequence of this case. 

‘After 5 defamatory tweets, my lawyer supplied Barton an opportunity to settle: pay £75k, plus my prices, and apologize. 

‘He ignored that provide and posted extra disgusting tweets about me, even publishing my dwelling tackle to his followers.’

He continued: ‘Once I then took my case to the Excessive Courtroom, a decide dominated that TEN of the tweets I complained of had been defamatory. 

‘Having misplaced, Barton has returned to the supply we made after tweet 5. There has subsequently been a parallel motion on tweets 6-10 and Barton pays additional damages for these. A lot of different steps — together with statements made in Courtroom by the use of apology — are nonetheless to be taken, and Barton has agreed to pay my authorized prices of all the claims.’

Jeremy Vine has been seen smiling after a grovelling apology from Joey Barton, because the ex-footballer agreed to pay £75,000 over Twitter posts by which he lied that the BBC presenter had a ‘sexual curiosity in youngsters’ and supported pressured vaccination.

Former Manchester Metropolis and England participant Barton, 41, been pressured to share a web-based apology to Vine – having beforehand used the platform to label him a ‘nonce’.

BBC Radio 2 host Vine, 59, launched authorized motion in response to the web taunt of ‘bike nonce’ made in January this yr.

Barton, sacked as Bristol Rovers supervisor final October, has now confirmed his climbdown in a remark shared along with his 2.8million followers on X, previously Twitter.

He admitted accountability for what he described as ‘defamation and harassment’.

Barton wrote this lunchtime: ‘Between 8 and 12 January 2024 I revealed 11 posts which accused Jeremy Vine of getting a sexual curiosity in youngsters, and created a hashtag which made the identical allegations, which had been seen tens of millions of instances.

‘I recognise that this can be a very critical allegation. It’s unfaithful. I don’t consider that Mr Vine has a sexual curiosity in youngsters, and I want to set the report straight.

‘I additionally revealed posts throughout the identical interval by which I referred to Mr Vine having advocated pressured vaccination throughout the Covid 19 pandemic, based mostly upon a video clip of his TV programme.

‘I settle for that he didn’t advocate this coverage and that the video clip has been edited to offer a deceptive impression of what he was actually saying.

‘I then taunted and abused Mr Vine for bringing a authorized criticism towards me.

‘I’ve agreed to not make the identical allegations once more about Mr Vine and I apologise to him for the misery he has suffered.

‘To resolve his claims towards me in defamation and harassment, I’ve agreed to pay Mr Vine £75,000 in damages and his authorized prices.’

Earlier this morning he had posted, ‘I am performed with social media’, including a thumbs-up emoji. 

Excessive Courtroom decide Mrs Justice Steyn dominated on Might 24 {that a} social media put up by Barton calling the broadcaster a ‘bike nonce’ was defamatory. 

Barton had labelled Vine a ‘huge bike nonce’ and a ‘pedo defender’.

The tirade of abuse got here after Mr Vine questioned whether or not Mr Barton had a mind damage in response to a put up the place the footballer in contrast feminine soccer pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward to serial killers Fred and Rose West.

This led to Mr Barton launching a ‘calculated and sustained assault on Mr Vine’ in early January this yr, the courtroom heard.

Mr Barton revealed a number of posts over the next days and commenced utilizing ‘#bikenonce’ on X, which led to it trending on the platform, the courtroom was advised.

Decide Steyn mentioned in response: ‘The robust impression gained by the assertion the claimant is called “aka bike nonce”, adopted instantly by the additional assertion that he’s often known as, once more, “aka pedo defender”, is that the time period “nonce” was being utilized in its major that means to allege the claimant has a sexual curiosity in youngsters.

‘Whereas I don’t contemplate that the hypothetical reader, who would learn the put up rapidly and transfer on, would infer a causative hyperlink, ie. that the claimant defends paedophiles as a result of he shares the identical propensity, the juxtaposition of the phrases “nonce” and “pedo” is placing and would reinforce the impression that the previous was used within the sense of “paedophile”.

‘The reader would have understood that the phrase “bike” was a meaningless facet of the accusation, serving solely as a sign that this was a label connected to the claimant, who was often known as a bike owner, with out detracting from the operative phrase “nonce”.’

William McCormick, for Barton, had mentioned the posts contained ‘vulgar abuse’ however didn’t libel Mr Vine and represented ‘somebody who’s posting within the warmth of the second’.

Barton’s profession noticed him play for groups together with not solely Manchester Metropolis but in addition Newcastle United and French facet Marseille, earlier than going into administration with Fleetwood City.

Earlier controversies surrounding him embody an incident the place he put a cigar within the eye of fellow Manchester Metropolis participant Jason Tandy at a 2004 Christmas get together – leading to Barton being docked six weeks’ wages.

In 2007 he was concerned in a coaching floor brawl with Ousmane Dabo, which led to a six-match ban and the courts handing him a four-month suspended sentence for precise bodily hurt.

A yr later in 2008 he was sentenced to 6 months in jail for assault and affray for his half in a battle in Liverpool metropolis centre.

And the footballer was handed a 12-match ban after he elbowed Carlos Tevez within the throat throughout a match between Queens Park Rangers and Manchester Metropolis in 2012.

Gary Lineker has accused Barton of ‘raging’ and ‘kicking out’, for which he branded him the MoTD presenter an ‘odious little toad’.

He additionally threatened pundit and former England star Gary Neville, saying he would ‘get emptied’.

Barton lashed out at Neville after he backed a press release from ITV Sport which mentioned the best way Barton focused presenters Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, as ‘clearly contemptible and shameful on his half’.