Coleen Rooney has won her court case against Rebekah Vardy in the WAGatha Christie saga that gripped the nation.The court found that Vardy together with her agent Caroline Watt were involved with the distribution to The Sun of the marriage, birthday, Halloween, pyjamas, car crash, gender selection, babysitting and flooded basement posts.
They considered it likely that Ms Watt was involved in the direct act of passing the information, but found Vardy "knew of, condoned and was actively engaged" in the process.Additional information from Rooney's private Instagram account was "likely to have been passed to The Sun by the Claimant and Ms Watt, acting together", court documents reveal.
While Rooney succeeded in proving that her statement was substantially true, it was determined that it was not in the public interest, as Vardy had no opportunity to respond.
The court also 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.
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