'Relief and closure' for Rooney after Wagatha case seemingly ends

LONG-RUNNING LEGAL BATTLE APPEARS TO BE OVER AT LAST

- By STAFF REPORTER

COLEEN Rooney has said she feels "relief" after a court ruled Rebekah Vardy must pay her at least £1.4 million in legal costs after the long-running "Wagatha Christie" libel battle.

In a post on Instagram stories, Mrs Rooney, pictured, wrote that this week's ruling on costs, which appeared to have brought the legal battle to an end more than five years after the viral social media post at the heart of the dispute, had brought "closure for my family and I".

Mrs Vardy, wife of Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, had sued Mrs Rooney at the High Court over alleged "very serious harm to her reputation" resulting from a social media post in October 2019 post.

The post, by Mrs Rooney, claimed that she had run a sting operation which proved Mrs Vardy’s Instagram account was responsible for leaking personal information about her to The Sun newspaper.