JOEY Barton has lost part of his court showdown with Jeremy Vine after he branded the TV presenter a "bike nonce".This included posts on X, formerly Twitter, where the TV presenter was accused of being a "paedo defender".Barton, 41, later retweeted a picture of Vine cycling, writing: “If you see this fella by a primary school call 999.”The High Court judge was asked to rule on the "natural and ordinary" meanings of the tweets.
She said the "strong impression" from the words is that the term "nonce" was being used in its "primary meaning to allege the claimant has a sexual interest in children". The judge added: "While I do not consider that the hypothetical reader, who would read the post quickly and move on, would infer a causative link, ie that the claimant defends paedophiles because he shares the same propensity, the juxtaposition of the words 'nonce' and 'pedo' is striking and would reinforce the impression that the former was used in the sense of 'paedophile'.
"The reader would have understood that the word 'bike' was a meaningless aspect of the accusation, serving only as an indication that this was a label attached to the claimant, who was known as a cyclist, without detracting from the operative word 'nonce'." Vine's lawyer Gervase de Wilde previously argued the posts wrongly suggest the broadcaster has a "sexual interest in children".was responding in a "Twitter spat" in the "same way anyone who remembers him will remember he used to tackle".
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