Rebekah Vardy and her agent deliberately deleted messages after their phones were ordered to be searched, a court was told today.
Mrs Vardy's then-agent Caroline Watt said her phone "fell into the sea" shortly after the court ordered it to be searched, according to Coleen Rooney's barrister during the trial earlier this year. Some messages were retrieved, however Mrs Justice Steyn DBE today determined "that the loss of both the Claimant’s and Ms Watt’s copies of their original WhatsApp conversation was deliberate rather than accidental".
In her ruling, the judge said it was "likely" that Mrs Vardy's agent at the time, Caroline Watt, "undertook the direct act" of passing the information to The S*n.
