#Macclean tank leaking around top full#
#Macclean tank leaking around top trial#

Mrs Justice Steyn said 'In my judgment, it is likely that Ms Vardy deliberately deleted her WhatsApp chat with Ms Watt, and that Ms Watt deliberately dropped her phone in the sea.' The judgment has said they were both involved Rebekah Vardy has said she was wrong to trust her friend and agent Caroline Watt (left), who has been too ill to attend the trial, accusing her of leaking stories about Coleen. The phone lost at the bottom of the North Sea: Vardy and assistant’s missing WhatsApp messages This inevitably affects my overall view of her credibility, although I have borne in mind that untruthful evidence may be given to mask guilt or to fortify innocence.'

Mrs Justice Steyn continued: 'Mrs Vardy was generally unwilling to make factual concessions, however implausible her evidence. in relation to the World Cup 2018 and the photoshopped pictures, and others where she was evasive.' 'There were many occasions when her evidence was manifestly inconsistent with the contemporaneous documentary evidence, e.g. The judge added: 'Nevertheless, I find that it is, unfortunately, necessary to treat Mrs Vardy's evidence with very considerable caution. In her judgment, she said: 'It was evident that Mrs Vardy found the process of giving evidence stressful and, at times, distressing'.

#Macclean tank leaking around top trial#

Mrs Justice Steyn has found that Rebekah Vardy's evidence in the trial was 'manifestly inconsistent' with other evidence on 'many occasions'. She left court for an hour without explanation, returning with some Lucozade, her laptop and her lawyer Rebekah Vardy sketched in the High Court where she was accused of lying and giving 'implausible' evidence.

#Macclean tank leaking around top full#

Here, read the full ruling which was published on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary website at noon, and the key areas of the case that were decided. And in a much-anticipated ruling released today, Mrs Justice Steyn found in Mrs Rooney's favour and dismissed the claim against her. Mrs Vardy - married to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy - denied leaking stories to the media and sued her fellow footballer's wife for libel, while Mrs Rooney defended the claim on the basis her post was 'substantially true'.īoth women attended a week-long trial at the High Court in London in May. The wife of former England star Wayne Rooney publicly claimed Mrs Vardy's account was the source behind three stories in The Sun newspaper featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram stories. In the October 2019 post, Mrs Rooney, 36, said she had carried out a months-long 'sting operation' and accused Mrs Vardy, 40, of leaking 'false stories' about her private life to the press. Rebekah Vardy has lost the ' Wagatha Christie' libel battle against Coleen Rooney over a viral social media post, after a High Court judge found it was 'substantially true'.