The radio station and former front of England Eni Aluko, who was attacked on social networks by former standing player Joey Barton, has said that he hopes that the trial that his positions were defamatory will make people think what they say online.
Aluko said that he should not have to be anxious because his race and gender were attacked every time he was on television.
Speaking after winning the first stage of a claim for the defamation of the Superior Court against Barton, he said that “it passed the point of asking people who understand the importance of language and how to treat women.”
The 38 -year -old told BBC News: “I can’t feel anxious every time I get on television that my career and my genre will be attacked.”
Referring to the comments made by Aluko in 2020, which seemed to criticize the people placed in the government’s license scheme, so he apologized, Barton published comments suggested that Aluko’s private Hal was made in the private “and that his private.”
Hello, he also accused her or “playing the racing card.”
‘Armed’
The Judge of the Superior Court, the Justice Lavender, ruled that Barton’s comments were mainly opinion statements, but were defamatory by meaning or hint.
Aluko said: “Things must change.
“There is a double standard for me, sometimes a triple standard that sounds like a black woman, if I say something.
“This is bigger than me. This was not something I could accept and it really is part of a broader culture for women in transmission.
“Opinions and freedom of expression are a human right and I support, but it cannot be armed and used as a route to hate speech”
“The only way to change is to hold people responsible.”
PA mediaThe former lioness scored 33 international goals in 102 appearances before retiring in 2020 and moving on to a transmission race.
She said she had faced threats of violence and suffered abuses on social networks after Barton published twice in X on her in January 2024.
Itv and BT Sport regular said that the judge’s finding would lead to more people to talk about bad behavior and abuse online.
She added: “I love what I do. I love transmission. I love talking about football. I love the bee, an example for other young blacks and color women that you can do and that you can enter into spaces that have normally taken.”
Barton has not yet responded to the ruling and could appeal against him. The 42 -year -old man could also defend the statements if the case goes to trial.
In a separate criminal case, Barton declared himself innocent of allegedly publishing offensive comments on social networks about Aluko, as well as broadcasters Lucy Ward and Jeremy Vine.
