Coleen Rooney 's barrister has accused Rebekah Vardy of "lying on oath" and deleting messages to "cover up incriminating evidence", writes The Mirror.David Sherborne described the claim during his closing speech, that a phone belonging to Vardy's PR agent, Caroline Watt, had fallen into the North Sea days after a judge had ordered it to be examined as "fishy".Vardy left the courtroom after the barrister suggested that she destroyed evidence.Coleen, Rebekah and Wayne have all taken to the stand this week, in the costly libel battle at the Royal Courts of Justice.The 40-year-old has denied purposefully deleting messages and denies leaking posts on Coleen's personal Instagram to the press.In his closing remarks, Sherbourne said the evidence showed "Mrs Vardy deleted the WhatsApp chats and has lied on oath"."It was done to cover up incriminating evidence."Mrs Vardy deliberately deleted those messages to cover up the collusion between her and Ms Watt,'' the barrister said.Sherborne said Mrs Vardy claimed the messages vanished as she tried to export them to her lawyers.But experts said that could not have happened.In addition the laptop she used to perform the export had broken and had been disposed of."No proper explanation has been given for this deliberate destruction of relevant evidence,'' Sherborne said."This is yet another serious and deliberate destruction of relevant material for which there can be only one reason.''Sherborne said all of Vardy's messages to one of the key journalists in the case had been deleted too.Turning to the claim Watt's phone had fallen into the sea after a judge ordered that it be examined, Sherborne said: "The story is fishy enough."The WhatsApp messages would have appeared on both phones
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