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Bev Lyons

Rebekah Vardy storms out of courtroom 30 minutes into Wagatha Christie trial

Rebekah Vardy stormed out of the courtroom after Coleen Rooney's lawyer opened his closing argument.

It was just 30 minutes into the last day of the Wagatha Christie hearing when Vardy decided she'd had enough already.

The 40-year-old was accused of destroying evidence by Coleen's legal team and she walked out - taking her laptop with her.

Coleen and Wayne Rooney have gone on holiday with their children following their court appearance on Tuesday (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

She had arrived with only her security team to the High Court in London, with husband Jamie Vardy visibly absent following his fiery comments about Wayne Rooney's testimony on Tuesday, writes the Mirror.

Coleen and Wayne Rooney had already decided not to attend the rest of the trial and decided to go on holiday with their four sons.

When Rooney's lawyer, David Sherborne QC, accused Vardy of "lying under oath", she decided to leave.

Vardy is suing Rooney for libel as she defends her accusation that it was Vardy's Instagram account that leaked stories to the media, saying her post was “substantially true”.

Mr Sherborne told the court it “can and should conclude” the loss of WhatsApp messages between Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt was "the result of deliberate deletion".

He claimed: "The loss of documents is substantial in this case."

He added that: "Mrs Vardy deleted the WhatsApp chats and has lied on oath. There is only one reason for her having taken such a step.

"It was done to cover up incriminating evidence.

"Mrs Vardy deliberately deleted those messages to cover up the collusion between her and Ms Watt.''

Sherborne referred to Rebekah claiming the messages disappeared when she attempted to export them to her lawyers.

On Tuesday, experts said in court that could not have happened.

Sherborne said: "No proper explanation has been given for this deliberate destruction of relevant evidence."

"This is yet another serious and deliberate destruction of relevant material for which there can be only one reason.''

He also added that all Rebekah's messages to one of the key journalists had been erased too.

After commenting that agent Caroline Watt's phone dropped in the North Sea days after a judge had ordered it to be examined, he said: "The story is fishy enough."

Rebekah's lawyer Hugh Tomlinson QC will give his closing argument later today.

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