Apologies for quoting the Daily Mail but the arrogance and sheer stupidity involved in thinking that making huge chunks of evidence disappear is mind blowing! It's worse than "the dog ate my homework your honour. And if you are going to lie to a High Court judge, it's best to get your dates right... .
"The judgement reveals for the first time, Caroline Watt's full first-hand explanation about how she managed to drop her mobile phone into the North Sea, blaming a combination of 'choppy waters' and a weakness in her hand.
She recalled in her witness statement: 'It is the case that I accidentally dropped my phone while I was on a boat trip in August this year.
'This was a genuine accident which happened during a family holiday to Scotland. I have a weakness in my hand and was on a boat trip with my family.
'I was standing up in choppy waters holding my phone and I dropped my phone when the boat hit a wave. This was an uninsured phone and its loss was extremely inconvenient and expensive for me.'
It was also extremely inconvenient for the case.
She added: 'However, I don't believe its loss makes any difference to the information I am able to provide the Court.
'As I understand it, all the information on the phone was retained on iCloud and transferred to my new phone which I have provided for imaging.
'The only information which would not have been on iCloud is records of WhatsApp messages and calls, but my WhatsApp messages had already been routinely deleted back in 2019 way before the proceedings began.'.
But the sharp-eyed judge was not convinced. She pointed out: 'But the evidence indicates that Ms Watt had not deleted her WhatsApp messages in 2019
'On 25 November 2020, Ms Watt sent Ms Vardy two screenshots of WhatsApp messages between them from 16 August 2019 (including the images of Ms Rooney's posts).
'There is no reason that Ms Watt would have taken a screenshot of these messages prior to the start of the litigation. Nor is there any reason why Ms Watt would have retained these messages while routinely deleting all others.
'Ms Watt sent these messages when she did because she evidently considered they would assist Ms Vardy's case.
'It is likely that the WhatsApp chat between herself and Ms Vardy (as well as exchanges with journalists) was available on Ms Watt's phone when she was advised very shortly after the Reveal Post that such evidence must be preserved.'"
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