Former football player Joey Barton will remain in custody until his trial next year after a bail application was rejected.
The 44-year-old was due to stand trial Liverpool Crown Court last week charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Kevin Lynch, 51, at £1,440 a year Huyton and Prescot Golf club in Merseyside on March 8.
But on Wednesday the case was adjourned and adjourned until March next year.
Barton, wearing a gray zip-up fleece, appeared via video link from HMP Liverpool at a hearing on Monday when Judge David Potter refused a renewed bail application.
He nodded as the judge took him into custody ahead of the pre-trial hearing on December 11.
Joey Barton will remain in custody until his trial next year after a bail application was rejected
Kevin Lynch, 51, was injured in the alleged attack at Huyton and Prescot Golf Club
Former footballer Barton appeared via video link from HMP Liverpool (pictured)
His trial will take place exactly one year after the alleged assault, meaning the suspect, who was arrested shortly after the incident, will have spent 12 months in custody.
Barton is accused of carrying out the attack on Lynch after they drank together at the golf club.
Mr Lynch, a former non-league football manager and founder of the NexGen Academy for special education, is said to have suffered serious injuries to his eye.
At Liverpool Crown Court last week, a request by Barton’s counsel Tim Forte KC to adjourn the case so that potential new witnesses could be contacted was not resisted by prosecutor Alex Leach KC.
Judge Potter said there were still ‘persistent issues’ which meant the trial could not start on September 1 and set a new date of March 8, 2027.
Former Manchester City and QPR midfielder Barton, from Widnes, Cheshire, has one England cap and has also played for Newcastle, Rangers, Burnley and Marseille.
He subsequently managed Fleetwood Town and Bristol Rovers.
