10 h, feb 26, 2020 y - UK LIBEL Depp v NGN & Wootton Johnny Depp Attended Hearing Royal Courts LONDON

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Johnny Depp sent texts during his relationship with Amber Heard saying he would 'drown' and 'burn' his wife then 'f*** the corpse', the High Court has heard today.

The Hollywood actor is suing the publishers of The Sun and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an article which alleged he had been abusive to his former wife.

At a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday, Mr Justice Nicol heard 70,000 text messages were 'accidentally' disclosed to the defendants by Mr Depp's former legal team.

Adam Wolanski QC, representing News Group Newspapers, told the court the texts are 'very damaging' to Mr Depp's case.

The barrister said the messages included texts sent to actor Paul Bettany, in November 2013, in which Mr Depp wrote: 'Let's burn Amber'.
'Nowhere, I repeat, nowhere, is there a single smoking gun, text or email, no document - unlike Ms Heard's own taped confession we looked at before - there is no document where Mr Depp says 'I hit Ms Heard' let alone 'I hit her on numerous occasions'.'

Mr Sherborne said there is no document is because Mr Depp 'simply never did it so they (the defence) are not going to find it.'

He said the defendants had the opportunity to look at 70,000 messages and had only found these few.

Mr Sherborne added: 'The idea that somehow these texts contradict the account (given by Mr Depp) and are therefore so critical to the defendants' case just simply isn't made out.'

The barrister said Mr Depp's witness statement claims it was 'physically impossible' for him to do the things Ms Heard accused him of on that flight, and that two other witnesses supported his account.

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