Overview
- The court ordered £339,000 in damages and costs, with £100,000 plus interest due by March 24 and a seven-day window to seek variations.
- Proceedings were stayed and the order bars Barton from contacting Aluko except through lawyers or making any reference to her unless legally required.
- Barton accepted that his conduct constituted harassment and that he should not have published the posts.
- The court heard he made 48 posts about Aluko between January and August 2024, including an image superimposing her face onto serial killer Rosemary West.
- He missed the hearing because he was in custody and later appeared in a Liverpool court charged over an alleged assault near a Huyton golf club, where he was remanded.