Rooney told ‘leave massage parlour or risk career’

A Liverpool massage parlour receptionist had told Wayne Rooney to get out “before he was destroyed and his career was over”, a phone hacking trial has heard.

Newspaper stories about the footballer’s “suggested use of prostitutes” had claimed Patricia Tierney had sex with him in a parlour in 2004, the court heard.

But Ms Tierney said in a statement read to the court that she had warned the footballer to leave.