Rebekah Vardy wins in first stage of Coleen Rooney libel action

Judge rules Instagram post could be read as an allegation and not meant as reasonable grounds to suspect'

Coleen Rooney's Instagram post about the suspected source of leaks of private information in the so-called Wagatha Christie" row clearly identified" Rebekah Vardy as having secretly informed the Sun newspaper of Ms Rooney's private posts and stories", a judge ruled on Friday.

In a victory for Vardy that sets the parameters for her libel action, Mr Justice Warby rejected the contention that the post - which concluded It's ................ Rebekah Vardy's account" - merely meant that there were reasonable grounds to suspect" her, as Rooney's lawyers had argued.