Former footballer Joey Barton has been arrested after an alleged assault close to a golf membership.
The 43-year-old is known to be one in every of two males arrested after studies of an assault in Huyton, Merseyside, on Sunday.
At a Excessive Courtroom listening to on Tuesday over a libel declare involving Barton, Gervase de Wilde, representing ex-England footballer Eni Aluko, stated his instructing solicitor had “acquired a name from an obligation solicitor in a police station in Liverpool” shortly earlier than the listening to.
Mr de Wilde advised the courtroom that Barton, a former Manchester Metropolis and QPR midfielder, “was arrested yesterday and is presently being held in custody”.
A spokesman for Merseyside Police stated: “We will affirm that two individuals have been arrested following studies of an assault in Huyton on Sunday March 8.
“At round 9pm, emergency companies had been referred to as to Fairway to studies of a person having been assaulted close to to Huyton and Prescot Golf Membership.
“The sufferer was taken to hospital for evaluation of accidents to his face and ribs.
“A 50-year-old man and a 43-year-old man have each been arrested on suspicion of Part 18 wounding.”
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