After seven days of testimony and dozens of court sketches of a blockbuster libel trial which has captivated millions of Brits, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney are left waiting weeks for the judge’s ruling.
The trial had been expected to conclude yesterday but was extended to allow time for each Wag’s lawyer to prepare their closing statements which were delivered in turn at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today.
Dating back to 2019, when Coleen Rooney accused Rebekah Vardy of leaking stories about her to the press after using Agatha Christie-style deduction skills, Vardy brought the libel action against her fellow Wag in a bid to clear her name.
The 40-year-old, though, was accused of lying under oath and giving implausible evidence by Rooney’s lawyer as the case came to its conclusion.
Vardy was already fuming when she arrived in Court 13, and her mood didn’t improve one bit as the morning wore on.
Before proceedings began, she vented her fury on a Sun journalist in the press box – not the author – over a front-page story, which she and her husband ‘categorically deny’, claiming they were upping sticks and moving to the US.
She hissed that the article was ‘cruel’ and had upset her children.
Surprisingly enough, the byline of the journalist on the story which so angered her was The Sun’s showbiz supremo Simon Boyle, whose name had come up a lot in the case, and who has been described as a ‘close friend’ of hers.
Once the final day started, after 38 minutes of being called a liar, Rebekah had clearly heard enough of Coleen’s lawyer David Sherborne’s closing speech and swept out into the corridor while the court was still in session.
She didn’t appear again until much later in the morning, but with a face like thunder as the attack on her credibility continued unabated.
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