The legal issues in the Wagatha libel battle between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy

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The Wagatha Christie trial between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy is coming to an end.The case centres around Rebekah’s Instagram account being accused by Coleen of leaking fake stories about her in October 2019 in a now famous Instagram post dubbed Wagatha Christie.

Rebekah, 40, denies the allegations and is suing 36 year old Coleen for libel. The pair’s lawyers made their closing statements at Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday 19 May and after much waiting the decision is set to be revealed this afternoon.

Ahead of the verdict, we take a look at the legal issues in the libel battle. What is a libel? A libel is a published statement which is damaging to a person’s reputation.

In the Wagatha Christie case, Rebekah says that she has suffered “very serious harm to her reputation” as a result of Coleen’s 2019 Instagram post which alleged her account was responsible for leaking information about her to The Sun newspaper and she is seeking “substantial damages”, or compensation.