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Football Boss in Blackmail Probe After Leaked Hotel Room Photos
Wayne Rooney Blackmail Probe Sparked by "£10,000 or Coleen Sees This" Instagram Post
There's no suggestion the women, who were seen joking around in photos featuring Derby County boss Wayne Rooney in a hotel room, were knowingly involved in any criminal activity
Wayne Rooneys' job as Derby boss 'on knife edge' after leaked hotel room photos
Derby top brass are said to be angry about the incident and believe former England international striker Wayne Rooney should be 'leading by example', according to reports
BBC News, 28 JUL 2021
The England and Manchester United legend partied with three women, all 21
The threat read: 'Morning Wayne 10 grand please mate or Coleen sees this'
Wayne Rooney was asked for £10,000 to keep photos of himself asleep in a hotel bedroom hidden from wife Coleen.
Over the weekend images of the former England striker asleep fully clothed in a hotel room with three women emerged.
Rooney’s lawyers contacted police after he was photographed in hotel with the group.
Police are believed to have opened a blackmail probe over the Instagram message, which included one photo and a caption saying 'Morning Wayne 10 grand please mate of Coleen sees this.'
However, police today dropped the investigation and decided no offence had been committed.
A spokesman for Cheshire Police said: "On Monday 26 July Cheshire Constabulary received reports of a possible blackmail relating to a number of images circulating online.
"Officers have spoken to the person involved and are satisfied that no offences have taken place.
"The person involved has also stated that they do not wish to take the matter any further."
There is no suggestion the women, who were seen joking around in the images, were knowingly involved in any criminal activity and repeat that after the police statement
In one image a woman was pictured bending over beside the slumbering star, dressed only in her underwear, with the caption ‘Mooney Rooney’.
Another photo showed him dozing with the caption ‘Sleepy Wayne’ as a woman made a peace sign to the camera.
It is understood Rooney had earlier met model Tayler Ryan, Elise Melvin and Brooke Morgan, all aged 21, in the Chinawhite night club in Manchester.
He later joined the women, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, at their £60 a night hotel in the city.
After the photos of Rooney, apparently taken inside a bedroom at the budget hotel, were widely circulated on social media, the player’s legal team contacted Greater Manchester Police.
The case was passed to Cheshire Police and it is understood Derby County manager Rooney had spoken to officers.
On Monday a statement from Championship club Derby said: “Wayne Rooney informed the club yesterday that the pictures had emerged and that they had been taken without his knowledge or approval.”
Coleen and Wayne Rooney have been married since 2008 (Image: Instagram)
The club said the matter had been reported to police who are investigating, adding: “While that remains the case, there will be no further comment.”
Rooney, 35, from Cheshire, was in charge of Derby as they suffered a 2-1 defeat away to Salford in a friendly on Saturday.
He was pictured back at the club’s training ground on Monday.
On the same day his wife, mum of four Coleen, 35, was on the beach in Abersoch, on the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
Coleen is believed to be on holiday in the exclusive seaside town with their sons Kai, 11, Klay, eight, Kit, five and Cass, three.
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