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      Joey Barton’s assault trial dismissed after he’s accused of ‘kicking wife and leaving golf ball sized lump on her head’

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      A JUDGE has today thrown out Joey Barton’s assault case after he was accused of attacking his wife two days before their anniversary.The Bristol Rovers boss was accused of leaving Georgia Barton, 35, with a lump the size of a “golf ball” after hitting her at home in Kew, South West London.
      Joey Barton has arrived at court with wife GeorgiaCredit: Doug Seeburg/News Group Newspapers Ltd
      But the assault by beating case has now been dropped on the grounds of abuse of process.
      It comes after Georgia wrote a letter to the CPS saying she got the details wrong after drinking all day and did not want to press charges against Barton, 40.
      The prosecution did not take a statement after this and refused to call her as a witness – causing District Judge Andrew Sweet to rule that Barton would not receive a fair trial.
      Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court was told Georgia had phoned police on June 2 last year telling them: “My husband has just hit me in the house”.
      When questioned by an officer at the scene, she added: “I’ve been pushed down and kicked about and stuff”.
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      But prosecutor Daniel Donoghue told the court Georgia became “evasive” the following day and has since retracted the allegation against her husband.
      She was not going to be called to be a witness against her husband at his trial, which started today.
      Bodycam footage played to Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court earlier showed Barton sleeping heavily in his bedroom when police arrived at the couple’s home.
      The manager was eventually woken up when the duvet was lifted from him while he was still in his pants.
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      Barton could be seen asking for his trousers before he was handcuffed and arrested.
      He was detained and gave a “no comment” interview when quizzed by cops, it was said.
      The court was told Georgia later sent a letter to the CPS on February 17 which is in “stark contrast” to her first account.
      The letter explained the couple, who are still together, were having dinner with pals and had sunk up to five bottles of wine each.
      Georgia suggested the injury was caused “accidentally” when friends intervened, the court heard.
      Barton married his childhood sweetheart in a lavish ceremony in 2019 at a country house in Oxfordshire.
      The couple have two children together – a son born in 2011 and a daughter born in 2014.
      Barton started his football career with Manchester City in 2002 after going through their youth system and went on to make 150 appearances for the club.
      He then moved to Newcastle United in a £5.8million transfer in July 2007 before leaving for Queens Park Rangers in August 2011.
      The midfielder was then put on loan to French side Marseille during the 2012-13 season before making his way to Burnley for one season – helping promote them to the Premier League.
      Barton made one appearance for England in 2007 – despite criticising some of his fellow players.
      The footballer then began his management career with Fleetwood Town in June 2018 after a stint at Rangers.
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      He moved to current club Bristol Rovers in February last year.
      Barton, of Widnes, Cheshire, denied assault by beating.
      Barton’s trial has twice been delayedCredit: Doug Seeburg/News Group Newspapers Ltd
      Barton denies assault by beatingCredit: Getty – Contributor
      The pair married in a lavish ceremony in 2019Credit: Instagram / Georgia Mcneil
      They have two children togetherCredit: Instagram
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      Former Premier League star banned from driving after being caught at wheel with phone

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      FORMER Premier League and BBC star Jermaine Jenas has been banned from driving for six months after being caught using his phone at the wheel.The former Spurs, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest footballer, 39, was stopped by cops after they suspected he was using his mobile in his Range Rover.
      Jermaine Jenas has been banned from driving for six months
      In October last year, he was stopped in Marsh Lane, Stanmore, North London.
      Just after 3pm in the afternoon officers saw the former England ace just over five miles from his home, as he was alleged to be using his phone behind the wheel.
      He was also caught speeding on the M25 on March 4 earlier this year, going 65mph in a 50mph. 
      Earlier this month Jenas admitted both offences at Willesden Magistrates’ Court.
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      He has now been slapped with six penalty points, and is banned from driving for six months.
      He was also fined £660 for using his phone – and was fined a further £1,410, another three penalty points and ordered to pay £231 in others costs for speeding.
      PC Neil Cornelius told the court: “I noticed that the driver of this vehicle was using a handheld mobile device whilst driving. The device was being held in both their hands.”
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      Jenas, played more than 150 games for Tottenham, and was named PFA Young Player of the Year in 2002-2003.
      He retired in 2016 and has since gone on to be a successful pundit on Match of The Day, and currently co-hosts The One Show on BBC.
      Back in 2013 Jenas, who was playing for QPR at the time, was fined for failing to provide information to police when he was caught speeding.
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      In 2011 he was photographed after he crashed his £200k Bentley into the back of a van.
      He was also given three points for speeding in 2003 whilst he was playing for Newcastle United. More

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      Benjamin Mendy ‘told cops he was shocked at arrest for raping woman’ and said ‘I didn’t try to stop her leaving’ mansion

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      MANCHESTER City’s Benjamin Mendy told police he was “shocked” at being arrested for rape, a court heard.Mendy, 28, was interviewed by police multiple times in relation to a number of rape and sexual assault allegations, Chester Crown Court was told.
      Benjamin Mendy arrives at Chester Crown Court todayCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      The Manchester City player’s ongoing trial sees him charged along with his co accused Louis Saha Matturie with multiple rapes and sex assaultsCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      The Premier League footballer and his friend and ‘fixer’ Louis Saha Matturie, 41, deny all charges at their trial, now in its 12th week.
      The footballer gave a number of prepared statements to detectives followed by “no comment” interviews on instruction by his solicitor, the court heard.
      Timothy Cray KC, prosecuting, read the prepared statement Mendy gave in relation to the first of the young women he is alleged to have raped.
      The woman, aged 24, claims Mendy raped her three times at his home in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, in October 2020.
      Mendy said in the statement he had been out for a few drinks to a bar with Matturie and others in Alderley Edge near his home and met some girls who were invited back to his house.
      While there he saw one girl using her phone, which visitors had been instructed not to do, to video his home.
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      Mendy told police: “I asked her to delete the video. She gave me her phone and I deleted it.
      “As I did so a photo of her with no clothes on came up on screen. She said she had more photos of her like that and we agreed to go upstairs to my bedroom so she could show me more.”
      In his bedroom Mendy said she showed him more naked photos and took her top off and they started kissing.
      Mendy said the woman gave him oral sex and agreed they would “play around” but she did not want to go any further.
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      Later she left with another girl and he ended up having sex with one of the 24-year-old’s friends from the bar, who stayed the night in his bed.
      He told detectives: “I’m shocked to be accused of rape and false imprisonment. All sexual activity between me and her was completely consensual.
      “I did nothing to prevent her from leaving.”
      Mendy gave a further three prepared statements to police in relation to separate women he had allegedly raped where he told detectives the sex was consensual.
      He denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
      Matturie, of Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.
      Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.
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      None of the women involved, as sexual assault complainants, can be identified.
      The trial was adjourned until Friday morning. More

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      Benjamin Mendy’s ‘fixer’ took teen girl, 17, on ‘date to Nando’s before asking her about his penis size’

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      A FRIEND of Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy raped a teenage girl after a first date at Nando’s, a court has been told.Louis Saha Matturie told the then-17-year-old he was a football agent and, after the meal, took her to his flat, exposed himself and asked if he had the “biggest d***” she had seen, Chester Crown Court heard.
      Louis Saha Matturie at Chester Crown Court where he is charged with multiple rapes and sexual assaultsCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy also faces several chargesCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      Manchester City defender Mendy, 28, and his pal and “fixer” Matturie, 41, deny a series of rapes and sexual assaults.
      The jury watched a police interview of the last of 13 complainants, who told officers about the alleged rape between July 22 and August 30, 2012.
      She said she saw Matturie while clubbing in Manchester, swapped numbers with him and arranged a date at the chicken restaurant.
      She said he later drove the pair to his south Manchester flat, where they sat on a bed and kissed before he took his penis out.
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      “He just had it out, fully exposed,” she said.
      “I just remember saying, ‘No. I don’t want to have sex.’
      “I wasn’t really feeling it. I didn’t really fancy him.
      “I just remember him wanting to have sex. I felt like I had to have sex with him because he had it out.
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      “I just thought, ‘It’s got to this stage now.’ I felt obliged.
      “I remember him saying, ‘Is this the biggest d*** you have ever seen?’
      “And I remember looking at him and saying, ‘No.’
      “Like, I’m disgusted and numb. Repulsed.”
      The woman said she went to the toilet, cried and texted her mum to say she would be back soon.
      Matturie later drove her home.
      After news of Mendy and Matturie’s arrest last August, the woman said a friend sent an article about it to a group chat on her phone.
      She told officers: “I thought, ‘Oh, my God!’ I felt sick and knew that I needed to say what I know.
      “I just replied and said, ‘I went on a date with him once.'”
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      Earlier, the court heard from a friend of another woman, 18 at the time, who alleges Matturie sexually assaulted her at the home of a footballer in Sheffield in 2016.
      She said Matturie was the organiser of parties in Manchester, sometimes involving footballers, and contacted young women through Snapchat and Instagram.
      She said there would be “no more” than five men at the events, with 10 or 15 girls invited and around 10 parties held during lockdown at a flat near Manchester city centre.
      After Mendy’s arrest, she said Matturie rang her.
      She told the jury: “He said, ‘Don’t believe what’s in the newspapers. These are girls, not women’ – something along those lines – and he’s told his boys to keep their heads down.”
      Prosecutors say Mendy is a “predator” who “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game”, while Matturie allegedly had the job of finding young women for sex.
      Mendy, of Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
      Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.
      Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.
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      None of the women involved, as sexual assault complainants, can legally be identified.
      The trial was adjourned until next Monday morning. More

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      Man denies murdering Tyson Fury’s cousin Rico Burton, 31, after he was stabbed outside bar

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      A MAN has today denied murdering Tyson Fury’s cousin in a knife attack outside a bar.Rico Burton, 31, was stabbed to death in a 3am “bloodbath” in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, in August.
      Rico Burton was stabbed to death after a night out
      Liam O’Prey has been charged with murderCredit: Facebook
      A 17-year-old man, believed to be a relative, suffered significant life-changing injuries.
      Liam O’Prey, 21, appeared at Manchester Crown Court today to deny a charge of murder.
      He also pleaded not guilty to wounding with intent in relation to the teen.
      O’Prey, wearing a grey jumper, admitted possession of a bladed article and possession of cocaine.
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      He was remanded in custody ahead of a provisional trial date of February 6 next year.
      Ex-youth boxing star Rico had been watching the Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk fight with pals on August 20 before they moved to a different pub in leafy Altrincham.
      Emergency crews were scrambled to the Goose Green area early the next morning after a fight allegedly broke out.
      Rico was rushed to hospital but sadly couldn’t be saved and was declared dead shortly after.
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      Officers arrested O’Prey and a 20-year-old man on suspicion of murder following the horror.
      The second suspect has been released on bail pending enquiries.
      Fury previously called on the government to “bring higher sentencing for knife crime” after his cousin was “stabbed in the neck”.
      The heavyweight boxing champion wrote on Instagram: “My cousin was murdered last night, stabbed in the neck.
      “This is becoming ridiculous… idiots carry knives. This needs to stop.”
      He added: “ASAP, UK government needs to bring higher sentencing for knife crime.
      “It’s a pandemic and you don’t know how bad it is until one of your own.
      “Life is very precious and it can be taken away very quick. Enjoy every moment.”
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      Steve Egan, 60, chief coach at Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy where Rico trained, described him as a “lovely lad” and a “fantastic boxer”.
      He added: “We are all devastated.”
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      Girl ‘screamed “rape, rape” at Benjamin Mendy party before being told to “shut up” by Louis Saha Matturie’

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      A WOMAN told the trial of Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy she saw and heard a girl screaming “rape, rape” at a party attended by the player.His co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, then started shouting at the woman to “shut up” as police banged on the door to break up the lockdown-busting gathering last year.
      Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy is currently on trial after denying multiple rape and sexual assault chargesCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      Mendy’s co-accused Louis Saha Matturie also denies a number of chargesCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      The witness has accused Matturie of sexually assaulting her at a property in Sheffield in late 2016, the jury at Chester Crown Court heard.
      Both Manchester City footballer Mendy and his friend and “fixer” Matturie deny a series of rape and sexual assaults on young women.
      The woman told the jury the party took place at an apartment on Chapel Street near Manchester city centre at the end of January last year.
      She said the young woman had been in an upstairs room with other people, but she did not know who.
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      She told police the woman came out of the room “screaming her head off, shouting, ‘rape, rape'”.
      The witness told officers Matturie, who was downstairs at the time then, “grabbed the girl and told her to shut up”.
      The court heard the police arrived and were banging on the door as the party was during lockdown.
      Officers were asking other party-goers about the girl but she had left the flat before police got in, the witness told the jury.
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      Earlier, the witness told the jury she was 18 and living and working in Sheffield when she began to socialise with footballers and was then sexually assaulted by Matturie.
      Later she began to socialise in Manchester from 2020 onwards and went to numerous parties, some attended by footballers, the “majority” of which took place during lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, she said.
      The court heard of a different party at the same apartment on Chapel Street in December 2020 attended by Mendy and his then team-mate, Raheem Sterling.
      She was sat on a sofa and ex-Liverpool, now Chelsea winger, Sterling was passing by and tripped over her foot.
      Lisa Wilding KC, defending Matturie, asked the witness: “He tripped over you and he was aggressive with you?”
      The witness agreed and said Sterling called her “fat”.
      Ms Wilding continued: “And you were cross about that?
      “One of your friends called him a four-foot gnome and properly insulted him and you felt better?”
      The witness replied: “Not cross but confused as to why anyone can be aggressive to someone when tripping over a foot. Non-intentional.”
      Prosecutors have alleged Mendy is a “predator” who “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game”, while Matturie, his friend and “fixer”, is alleged to have had the job of finding young women for sex.
      Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
      Matturie of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.
      Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.
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      None of the women involved, as sexual assault complainants, can be identified.
      The trial was adjourned until tomorrow morning. More

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      Mason Greenwood is released on bail after facing a month behind bars before trial over attempted rape and assault

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      MASON Greenwood has been released on bail ahead of his trial for attempted rape and assault.On Monday the Manchester United striker, 21, was told he would spend over a month behind bars after initially being denied bail.
      Mason Greenwood has been granted bail ahead of his trial for attempted rape and assaultCredit: AFP
      The Manchester United striker was initially denied bailCredit: PA
      A black Audi sports car is driven away from HMP Berwyn after Mason Greenwood is granted bailCredit: CHRIS NEILL
      But his lawyers overturned the order following a brief private hearing at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court today.
      The footballer, who didn’t attend the hearing, has been released from prison after the decision by judge John Potter.
      His bail conditions state that he’s not to contact witnesses and must reside at his home address in Bowden, Greater Manchester.
      The footballer will make his next appearance at the same Crown Court on November 21.
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      The striker had been held in custody since he was charged on Saturday.
      On Monday Greenwood’s alleged victim was seen being supported by a female pal as she sat outside the courtroom.
      The alleged offences relate to one woman and are said to have taken place between November 1, 2018, and October 15, 2022.
      Greenwood is accused of “repeatedly engaging” in controlling and coercive behaviour for almost four years.
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      These include making threats and derogatory comments on social media.
      He is also charged with attempting to rape her on October 21, 2021.
      Attempted rape carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted.
      The striker also allegedly assaulted her between December 12, 2021, and December 31, 2021.
      Police swooped on the footballer’s £15,000-a-month rented home in Trafford on Saturday.
      Greenwood was held on suspicion of being in contact with his alleged victim in a breach of his bail conditions.
      The Crown Prosecution then authorised Greater Manchester Police to charge the footballer.
      The striker has been waiting to discover his fate since he was first held in January this year.
      Manchester United released a statement after Greenwood’s charge was announced.
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      A spokesperson said: “Manchester United notes that criminal charges have been brought against Mason Greenwood by the Crown Prosecution Service.
      “He remains suspended by the club, pending the outcome of the judicial process.”
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      Woman ‘had sex with Jack Grealish and sexual activity with Benjamin Mendy after being raped by third man’

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      A WOMAN had sex with Manchester City’s Jack Grealish and “sexual activity” with team-mate Benjamin Mendy after she was allegedly raped by a third man, a court heard yesterday.She told police that she had been at a nightclub with the two players and Louis Saha Matturie in August last year.
      A woman had ‘sexual activity’ with Benjamin Mendy, pictured, before being raped by another man, a court heardCredit: Andy Kelvin / Kelvinmedia
      They all travelled to Mendy’s mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire, for an afterparty.
      The woman said she was raped by Matturie after he offered to take her to buy some vodka from a nearby shop.
      She told officers that after arriving back at Mendy’s home, she had spent “hours sitting on the sofa in the living room” chatting with two girls and one of Grealish’s friends.
      At Chester crown court, she was asked by Mr Matturie’s barrister, Lisa Wilding KC: “Did you have sex with Jack Grealish?”
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      She said: “Yeah.”
      “Do you have a memory of that?” the KC asked.
      She said: “I don’t know what room it was in.
      “I am sure we had sex.”
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      She also admitted she later got into bed with Mendy and they engaged in sexual activity but did not have sex, which the court heard she did not tell police about originally.
      Mendy, 28, denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault — all relating to six women.
      Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault allegations relating to seven women.
      Trial continues.
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