Judge to release ruling in battle of footballers’ wives over Instagram leak allegation
It has taken almost three years of legal arguments, millions of pounds in lawyers’ fees, and an often excruciating public trial – but at noon on Friday the world will finally learn who has won the “Wagatha Christie” libel case.against her fellow footballer’s wife Coleen Rooney, played out over seven days in May at the high court in central London. Rooney had alleged that stories from her private Instagram account were being leaked by Vardy to journalists at the Sun.
But because the use of juries has in effect been abolished for libel trials in England and Wales, there was no instant verdict as to who had won the case. When the court proceedings wrapped up, everyone moved on. The footballers’ wives and their families went on holiday, the lawyers dealt with other trials, and as far as the public were concerned it went quiet.
At the heart of the case was the question of whether Rooney – the wife of the former England footballer Wayne Rooney – could substantiate her original claim that Vardy – the wife of Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy – was the person who made the leak.
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