Barton also posted that Aluko was in the “Joseph Stalin/Pol Pot category”, saying she had “murdered hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of football fans’ ears”.
Jurors found him not guilty on the comparison to the 20th Century dictators and the Wests, but ruled the superimposed image was grossly offensive.
Barton, originally from Huyton in Merseyside, was also convicted over a post in which he claimed Aluko was “only there to tick boxes” as he criticised diversity schemes.
His post said her input was “all off the back of the BLM [Black Lives Matter]/George Floyd nonsense”, referring to the 2020 killing of a black man by US police.
Barton, who has 2.6 million followers on X, claimed his posts about Vine were merely “crude banter” and that in using the phrase “bike nonce” he had never intended to imply the radio presenter was a paedophile.
He was convicted over posts suggesting Vine had visited “Epstein island” – a reference to the paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein – and one saying: “If you see this fella by a primary school call 999.”
