WhatsApp messages between Rebekah Vardy and her former agent were deleted "deliberately" rather than lost by accident.It comes as Coleen Rooney, 36, was announced as the winner of the high-profile Wagatha Court case in London on Friday (July 29).40-year-old Vardy, the wife of former England striker Jamie Vardy, had sued Coleen, the wife of former England ace Wayne Rooney, for libel.READ MORE: Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney set to face off with rival TV shows about court row The court determined that the loss of Vardy and Watt's copies of their original WhatsApp conversation was "deliberate rather than accidental", adding that the missing data would have supported Rooney's truth defence.
The WhatsApp messages between Vardy and Ms Watt between 2017 and 2019, when Vardy had been following Coleen Rooney's private Instagram account, had been deemed highly relevant in determining the claim.However, the media files, which contained images, videos and voicemails, went missing as well as the original messages.It was previously claimed the potentially crucial WhatsApp messages held on Vardy's phone were lost after the device was accidentally dropped off the side of a boat in the North Sea.However, Mrs Justice Steyn has said that it was "likely" she deliberately dropped the phone and that chances of it being accidental was "slim".It came shortly after a request was made to search the phone, and Vardy's copy of the same messages was lost during the process of backing them up.The court found that Vardy and Caroline Watt were party to the disclosure of various posts from Rooney's private Instagram account, including the marriage, birthday, Halloween, pyjamas, car crash, gender selection, babysitting and flooded basement posts.They.
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