General Musings

[Socko]

He said: “This was the state, in my opinion, trying to squeeze me into the ground. This is a state prosecution, I believe, for whatever their agendas are in pushing on people.”

Barton said he did not intend to actually call Vine a paedophile and that his posts directed towards the broadcaster were “a wind-up” and “a bad, dark, juvenile joke”.

At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”

 

A man so thick he can't even right wing grift.