De Wilde said that between January and August 2024, Barton published 48 posts relating to Aluko on his X account, adding that he had “carried out a deliberately targeted public campaign of vilification”.<\/p>\n
He said one post included an image of Aluko’s head superimposed onto serial killer Rosemary West’s body.<\/p>\n
“The campaign amounted to an attack on multiple aspects of her life and personality,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Mr Barton’s campaign caused Ms Aluko enormous distress. When she sought to defend herself against Mr Barton’s conduct, and that of his followers, he criticised and attacked her for doing so.”<\/p>\n
De Wilde said Aluko was worried that however she tried to stop the harassment, Barton “would exploit and manipulate it to use against her”.<\/p>\n
The barrister said: “Mr Barton has now accepted that his campaign against Ms Aluko amounted to harassment and that he should not have made the publications.”<\/p>\n
According to a court order seen by the Press Association, Barton has been told to pay \u00a3339,000, with the first \u00a3100,000 plus interest due by March 24.<\/p>\n
Justice Nicholas Lavender granted Barton seven days to ask to change the order.<\/p>\n
Aluko attended the London court earlier and said: “I’m glad it’s the end.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Wilde said that between January and August 2024, Barton published 48 posts relating to Aluko on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-468171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}