Rebekah Vardy subjected to ridicule on a massive scale, libel trial told

Footballer's wife seeking substantial damages from Colleen Rooney at end of two weeks of high court hearings

Rebekah Vardy has demanded substantial" damages from Coleen Rooney after enduring public abuse and ridicule on a massive scale", as the Wagatha Christie" libel trial drew to a close at the high court after two weeks of headline-grabbing and occasionally excruciating hearings.

Vardy said her life had been made hell as a result of the allegation in 2019 that she was leaking stories from Rooney's private Instagram account to journalists at the Sun.