JOEY Barton has lost the first leg of his libel battle with Jeremy Vine after branding the BBC broadcaster a “bike nonce”.
The former footballer’s lawyer had claimed it was an “obvious attempt at humorous abuse”.
But a High Court judge ruled the slur Barton used on X – formerly Twitter – was defamatory.
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