‘Wagatha Christie’: Vardy accused of destroying evidence as libel trial begins

Lawyers for Coleen Rooney claim loss of data was part of deliberate and calculated' campaign

Coleen Rooney has accused Rebekah Vardy of conducting a deliberate and calculated" campaign to destroy evidence prior to their Wagatha Christie" libel trial, which got under way at the high court.

Rooney's lawyers claimed potentially important WhatsApp messages involving Vardy had been manually deleted, pointed to an unfortunate incident in which Vardy's agent accidentally dropped her mobile phone off the side of a boat in the North Sea, and discussed how Vardy's own IT expert lost the password to a backup of her WhatsApp account.