Rebekah Vardy was a “highly unreliable witness” during her libel battle with Coleen Rooney and gave “implausible and throwaway explanations” in the witness box, a judge has heard.Rebekah walked out of court today after Coleen’s barrister David Sherbourne made the claim in the final hours of the Wagatha Christie trial at London’s High Court.Coleen accused Rebekah, who is married to Leicester City player Jamie, of leaking information from her private Instagram story in October 2019.Rebekah denies this and is suing Coleen for libel.Mr Sherborne said in his closing submissions today that “anybody in court could be forgiven for wondering how the case has been allowed to get this far".While Coleen and her England star husband Wayne did not attend court for the first time during the trial this morning, Rebekah came alone but left part-way through the opposing side’s submissions.Mr Sherborne said Rebekah had “demonstrated herself to be an entirely unreliable witness” and this was shown by her “inability to accept the ordinary meaning of words such as ‘leak’.He said: “It was hard to keep up with Mrs Vardy as she gave evidence.
Her case shifted at every stage and during oral evidence with further more fanciful explanations being made for the first time in the witness box.“She gave implausible throwaway explanations while in the witness box as a way of distracting from what was before her or distancing herself from individuals.“These are the marks of a witness whose evidence is ill-considered and lacking in candour.“We say Mrs Vardy was a highly unreliable witness and her evidence should be treated with the utmost caution.”Mr Sherborne also took aim at Rebekah’s agent Caroline, who did not give evidence at the trial and Jamie.
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