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Lawyer for Coleen Rooney suggests Vardy is trying to shift blame for leaking of information to Sun newspaper

Rebekah Vardy is suing fellow footballer’s wife Coleen Rooney for libel in a high-profile trial at the Royal Courts of Justice.

Rebekah Vardy put on spot about missing messages between her and agent

Mrs Vardy is due to finish her evidence on Friday.

Earlier, Vardy had accused Rooney of ‘weaponising her fanbase against me’ with the Wagatha Christie bombshell accusation

When I was a schoolboy, there was nothing I enjoyed more than exaggerating a mild sniffle, sloping off school and settling down to another riveting episode of the fictional daytime Granada TV trial, Crown Court. It taught me the thrill and jeopardy of a courtroom drama early. Let’s call it…

'I've been laughing about it for a while but think about how it would feel if it was the other way round'