{"id":517902,"date":"2026-04-07T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:29:09","slug":"joey-barton-pleads-not-guilty-to-causing-grievous-bodily-harm-in-golf-club-incident-joey-barton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517902\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Barton pleads not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm in golf club incident | Joey Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Joey Barton has denied assaulting a man outside a golf club in north-west England. The 43-year-old former Manchester City and Newcastle midfielder appeared via video link from Liverpool prison for the plea hearing at Liverpool crown court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Kevin Lynch on 8 March. Barton\u2019s co-defendant, Gary O\u2019Grady, was not asked to enter a plea to the charge on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An earlier court hearing was told the defendants had been drinking with Lynch at Huyton &amp; Prescot Golf Club before the alleged attack. Lynch, a former non-league football manager and founder of the special education school NexGen Academy, was said to have suffered serious injuries to an eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Judge Andrew Menary set a trial date of 1 September, with the case expected to last seven days, during a 15-minute hearing that also dealt with administrative matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Barton was remanded in custody, and the judge renewed conditional bail for O\u2019Grady, who was supported in court by several family members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Barton won one England cap during a playing career that also included stints at Rangers and Marseille.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey Barton has denied assaulting a man outside a golf club in north-west England. The 43-year-old former Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517902","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=517902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}