Barton admits team mate assault

[clippedgull]

Premier League footballer Joey Barton has admitted assaulting a former team-mate in a training ground row.

The Newcastle United midfielder was due to go on trial at Manchester Minshull Crown Court over the incident.

The 25-year-old changed his plea shortly before the scheduled start.

He attacked Ousmane Dabo during a training ground bust-up on 1 May last year when both played for Manchester City.

 

[surrey jim]

he could hardly plea a squeaky clean past in court could he

be interested to see if he is made a scapegoat and serves time or is let off with a slapped wrist ala most footballers

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

he's already serving time for another assault.......

 

[che]

Joey Barton is a disgrace for football. He is an overrated player.

 

[Pat McCrotch]

absolutle Thug. hope he gets what is coming to him.

and then i hope he gets his arse raided by a willing fellow inmate

 

[Lady Whistledown]

he's already serving time for another assault.......

This one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMorhNRmiDM

Nothing but a thug.

 

[severnside gull]

sad waste of talent.

 

[empire]

Joey Barton is a disgrace for football. He is an overrated player.

no way overrated,when he wants he is the biz and a great asset as a player,shame he is a thug mind

 

[che]

sad waste of talent.

What sort of talent ?

 

[severnside gull]

What sort of talent ?

he has more ability to hurt his own team mates than anyone in football and when he cant find a colleague or an apprentice to practice his skills on he takes it out onto the street.....

 

[severnside gull]

am I right in thinking though that it was Barton who was retained and then sold for a Queen's ransom while the victim, Dabo was released from his contract by Man City?


Kinda makes you wonder about football and the priorities it represents

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The CCTV footage shows him to be no better than the sort of pissed up chavs we regularly complain about on here.

 

[Marshy]

give him another 18 months, the clip on the news shows exactly what he is....a thug

 

[Superseagull]

The guy is chav scum who happens to be lucky enough to earn a fortune in the premiership - but he'll always be chav scum no matter how much he earns.

 

[severnside gull]

......and someone will continue to pay him very well indeed

 

[Easy 10]

I can't understand it. He comes from such a nice family.

 

[Skint Gull]

Apparently the reason he admitted it was because the judge said he would then get a suspended sentance.

How the f*** does someone get a suspended sentance even though after the actual incident (although admitedly before the court case) he assaults somebody else and gets locked up? Surely the fact you are already in prison for something else invalidates your right to get a suspended sentance?

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I think the judge was talking about a suspended sentence today.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Apparently the reason he admitted it was because the judge said he would then get a suspended sentance.

How the f*** does someone get a suspended sentance even though after the actual incident (although admitedly before the court case) he assaults somebody else and gets locked up? Surely the fact you are already in prison for something else invalidates your right to get a suspended sentance?

Nope.

This is one of the slightly crap things about the criminal justice system in this country.

Even when there's a stack of evidence against them, defendants will frequently plead not guilty until the last possible moment, in the hope that something will happen- like a witness not turning up for court- which might make the CPS decide it's not in the public interest to adjourn the case, and scrap it instead.

Which means that many, many hours of police, CPS, court and witness time are wasted, not to mention a whole lot of public money, putting together a full case file, as opposed to the shorter file you get if the defendant pleads guilty at an early stage.

As soon as the defendant realises all the witnesses have turned up for the court date, he changes his plea to guilty, then expects to receive some credit towards his sentence in exchange for that.

By which time the civilian and/or police witnesses may have been sitting in a court waiting room all day, taking time off work etc etc, only to be told they're not needed after all.

IMHO you should get absolutely bugger all credit for a guilty plea if entered at that late stage, because of the cost to the taxpayer of having to arrange a trial.

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

Nope.

This is one of the slightly crap things about the criminal justice system in this country.

Even when there's a stack of evidence against them, defendants will frequently plead not guilty until the last possible moment, in the hope that something will happen- like a witness not turning up for court- which might make the CPS decide it's not in the public interest to adjourn the case, and scrap it instead.

Which means that many, many hours of police, CPS, court and witness time are wasted, not to mention a whole lot of public money, putting together a full case file, as opposed to the shorter file you get if the defendant pleads guilty at an early stage.

As soon as the defendant realises all the witnesses have turned up for the court date, he changes his plea to guilty, then expects to receive some credit towards his sentence in exchange for that.

By which time the civilian and/or police witnesses may have been sitting in a court waiting room all day, taking time off work etc etc, only to be told they're not needed after all.

IMHO you should get absolutely bugger all credit for a guilty plea if entered at that late stage, because of the cost to the taxpayer of having to arrange a trial.

Agreed-some merit should be placed on early guilty pleas but nothing on last minute.