Joey Barton faces a new criminal trial over an allegation he assaulted his wife, judges at the High Court have ruled after proceedings against him were previously paused.
A judge then ordered that proceedings be paused over concerns a trial would be unfair to Mr Barton after prosecutors said they did not plan to ask Mrs Barton to give evidence in court. In a 20-page ruling, Dame Victoria Sharp said the previous judge’s decision “was wrong in principle”. But Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court heard in March 2022 that Mrs Barton wrote to prosecutors a month before the scheduled trial to claim she was injured accidentally when friends intervened in an argument between the pair, having both drunk “four or five bottles of wine”.
However, Dame Victoria said the prosecution is only obliged to call witnesses who have provided witness statements they plan to rely on and it was not “an abuse of process” to not call Mrs Barton.
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