Joey Barton arriving at court. (Image: PA.)
Former Premier League footballer Joey Barton pushed his wife to the floor before kicking her in the head in a drunken row, a court has heard.
The ex- and QPR midfielder, 42, is accused of assaulting Georgia Barton, 38, in Kew, south-west London in June 2021, before threatening to fight her brother and dad.
Prosecutors claim that Mrs Barton was left with a lump on her forehead and a bleeding nose after the alleged assault. Friends were said to have been forced to intervene in the argument between the pair, pulling Barton away from his wife after they were drinking with the couple.
Barton has denied the charges.
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