Rebekah Vardy wins first stage of libel trial as Coleen Rooney ordered to pay £23,000 in costs

metro.co.uk:

Rebekah Vardy has claimed victory in the first stage of her libel trial against Coleen Rooney.The two WAGs are at war over Rooney’s infamous ‘It’s……… Rebekah Vardy’s account’ post, which accused the mum-of-five of leaking fake stories to the press.Rooney’s team claimed it outlined ‘reasonable grounds’ she had to suspect Vardy or those with access to her Instagram account of breaching her trust.But Mr Justice Warby agreed that the post directly pointed the finger at Vardy as the source.

Mr Justice Warby ruled that the ‘natural and ordinary’ meaning of Mrs Rooney’s posts was that Mrs Vardy had ‘regularly and frequently abused her status as a trusted follower of Ms Rooney’s personal Instagram account by secretly informing The Sun newspaper of.