Coleen Rooney’s lawyer has spoken out following the verdict of her trial against Rebekah Vardy, emphasising that his client ‘didn’t want any of this’ and ‘doesn’t want any compensation’ after her victory.On Friday, it was confirmed that Vardy had lost the so-called ‘Wagatha Christie’ case, after accusing Rooney of ‘libel’.The controversy all began when in October 2019, Rooney, who’s married to former footballer Wayne Rooney, accused Vardy, the wife of England star Jamie Vardy, of leaking ‘false stories’ about her to the press, having conducted a ‘sting operation’ on Instagram.While Rooney, 36, said she was ‘pleased’ by the outcome, Vardy, 40, said she felt ‘extremely sad and disappointed’, adding: ‘Please can the people who have been abusing me and my family now stop.
The case is over.’In a new interview with BBC Radio 4 Today on Saturday, Paul Lunt, a commercial litigation partner at Brabners who was hired by Rooney, was asked whether his client would be seeking any compensation.‘Coleen hasn’t wanted this, she didn’t want any of this.
She doesn’t want any compensation, retribution, she’s never wanted any of that,’ the lawyer said.‘She just wanted the intrusion that she was seeing into her private life to stop, and that was her sole aim and her sole focus.
She has no remaining objectives.‘Certainly she doesn’t have any need for compensation or demands or anything of that nature.
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