Rebekah Vardy agent’s phone is ‘in Davy Jones’ locker’, court hears
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12/05/2022 | 22:12 PM By William Janes, PA
Some WhatsApp messages sent by Rebekah Vardy’s agent are not part of the footballer’s wife’s libel claim because the agent’s phone is in “Davy Jones’ locker” after falling into the North Sea, the High Court in London has been told.
On the third day key30297 of the high-profile libel claim between Mrs Vardy and Coleen Rooney, the court heard about some of the alleged issues with disclosure – including that Mrs Vardy’s agent lost her phone key30292 after a judge said it should be searched.
Mrs Rooney’s key30293 barrister David Sherborne
copy rolex oyster perpetual rolex calibre 2836 2813 m114300 0002 unisex black dial said Caroline Watt key30295 was “filming the coastline” while on a boat trip in Scotland and dropped her phone, with Ms Watt “unable to retrieve it”.
Mr Sherborne said on Thursday it was a “shame” that messages between journalists – who had allegedly been leaked stories – and Ms Watt were “lying key30286 at the bottom of the sea in Davy Jones’ locker”.
AdvertisementMs Vardy replied: “Who is Davy Jones?”
Mrs Justice Steyn told her the reference to Davy Jones’ locker “just means the bottom of the sea”.
Mr Sherborne later said four months key30288 passed between Ms Watt losing her phone and Mrs Rooney’s solicitors being informed.
Coleen Rooney leaves court (James Manning/PA)
Mrs Vardy, 40, said she did not know why there was a key30290 delay.
Mr Sherborne has repeatedly claimed that disclosure linked to Mrs Vardy in the legal dispute had key30289 key30294 been hit by “a series of unfortunate events”.
Mrs Vardy told the court some messages were key30300 deleted from WhatsApp as she tried to export them.
Mr Sherborne said: “You say that as a result of that process, all of the messages key30299 on your phone, all the WhatsApp messages on your phone between you and Ms Watt, were deleted, were lost.
Mrs Vardy was giving evidence on the third day of the libel trial (James Manning/PA)
“You know that your expert has described that as somewhat surprising and our expert indicates that someone has manually deleted them from the phone.
“No-one has said to you that Mrs Rooney’s expert says that there is no possible explanation key30291 for how that happened in any other way than someone manually – a human – deleting those messages on the phone?”
The TV personality repeatedly denied deleting messages.
Mrs Vardy later key30298 said she “can neither confirm nor deny” what happened, suggesting she may have switched phones during a nine-month period where there are missing messages.
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