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3:41Now PlayingEx-footballer Joey Barton has been given a suspended jail sentence for "grossly offensive" social media posts about broadcaster Jeremy Vine and football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.
Barton was given six months in custody, suspended for 18 months.
He was also made to do 200 hours of unpaid work in the community, pay more than £20,000 in costs, and given restraining orders.
The former Premier League footballer was found guilty last month after comparing Aluko and Ward to serial killers Fred and Rose West and calling Vine a "bike nonce" in posts sent between January and March 2024.
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