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Johnny Depp's lawyers today revealed they have been handed a video by a 'confidential source' of Amber Heard being violent towards her sister Whitney Henriquez and also accused the actress of texting her while she was in the witness box.

The bombshell film proves the actress' younger sibling was 'lying' when she told the High Court yesterday that Amber had never attacked her, the megastar actor's barrister David Sherborne said.

Ms Heard was also accused of texting Whitney during her evidence on Thursday in another extraordinary twist in her ex-husband Johnny Depp's libel trial in London.

David Sherborne had asked the judge to keep Whitney out of the court as they produced a new video which shows Amber being violent towards her. Whitney had testified yesterday that Amber had never attacked her. The judge said he would decide later today if it will be shown in court. 

Mr Sherborne told the court that Ms Henriquez had 'tailored' her evidence 'to meet her sister's evidence'. The barrister added that Mr Depp's legal team had been provided with 'material which we say demonstrates Ms Whitney (Henriquez) was lying yesterday'.  

He said: 'After she (Ms Henriquez) gave evidence yesterday, one of our team was contacted by an individual, on the basis of being kept confidential.'

He added: 'We were contacted to explain that Ms Amber Heard had a history of violence and attacking people and this video, which was attached, of her sister Whitney (Henriquez) was taken shortly after Amber Heard had attacked her and Ms Whitney (Henriquez) was filmed with people commenting on the bruises on her face and body.'

The megastar actor's legal team have also demanded that Ms Heard is not allowed to use her mobile while the court in more high drama at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning. 

The requests came before Ms Henriquez was due in the witness box this morning where she was due to finish her evidence in the biggest libel case of the 21st century. Mr Sherborne said: 'We ask that Amber Herd be refrained from using her phone [while seated in court]. communication may be happening to Miss Whitney Heard as we speak.' 

Actress Amber Heard arrives at the High Court in London this morning for Johnny Depp's libel case to continue. But proceedings were paused as Mr Depp's legal team claims Amber was texting her sister Whitney (right) while she gave evidence

Johnny Depp waves as he arrives to attend his libel trial against News Group Newspapers at London's High Court yesterday

It comes after the High Court also heard yesterday that the drug-addled Hollywood legend scrawled messages to his wife in blood on lampshades, cushions, walls and a mirror, using his badly wounded finger as a paintbrush.

The claim was made at the outset of the 14th day of Mr Depp's libel claim against The Sun over allegations he was violent to his ex-wife.   On Thursday, Ms Henriquez denied Ms Heard had ever hit her, or that she was 'frightened' of her sister.

She also gave evidence she saw Mr Depp punch Ms Heard 'really hard in the head ... multiple times' in Los Angeles in March 2015 in the so-called 'stairs incident'.

Ms Henriquez admitted that Ms Heard punched Mr Depp on that occasion, but only did so 'in my defence' because her sister believed the actor was going to push her down the stairs. 

Mr Depp, 57, is suing The Sun's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor Dan Wootton over an April 2018 article which labelled him a 'wife beater' over claims he attacked Ms Heard, 34, during their relationship.

Mr Sherborne told Mr Justice Nicol: 'In the context of the attack, what I will call 'the stairs incident', and the evidence we say of the attack by Ms Amber Heard on Mr Depp, Ms Whitney (Henriquez) you will recall protested that it was only in self-defence and it is the one physical attack that Ms Amber Heard admits to.'

He said that, on Thursday, Ms Henriquez was asked 'whether Ms Amber Heard was violent' and said that 'the stairs incident' in Los Angeles in March 2015 was a 'one-off'.

Mr Sherborne continued that Ms Henriquez's evidence about the incident in March 2015 is 'the only occasion on which any other human being is supposed to have witnessed' Mr Depp being violent towards Ms Heard.

He added: 'The reliability of Ms Whitney (Henriquez) is critical.'

Mr Sherborne said Ms Heard's evidence is that 'she was never violent, she (has not) physically attacked Mr Depp ... and the only occasion is said to be when she was acting in self-defence'.

'Evidence that Ms Heard was violent towards her sister is relevant to that issue,' Mr Sherborne said.

He told the court: 'We are entitled to put (allegations of) violence to Ms Whitney (Henriquez) ... we want to play the video tape to her and ask her about the incident in which Ms Amber Heard attacked her.'

Mr Sherborne added: 'Had we received this before the end of yesterday, we would have been entitled to put (the allegation) to her and we would be entitled to rely on it in our closing submissions.'

Ms Henriquez's cross-examination concluded on Thursday afternoon and she was due to be questioned by NGN's barrister Sasha Wass QC on Friday.

Ms Wass said she had not seen the video and was not aware of it until Mr Sherborne told the court about it.

Mr Justice Nicol said he wanted to 'press on' with other witnesses' evidence 'and, if there is an opportunity for Ms Wass to see the video before we get to the issue, that would be desirable'.

Amber Heard and her girlfriend Bianca Butti arrive at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today for the libel trial to continue

Amber Heard returned to London's High Court for her sister to continue giving evidence today after the actress said Johnny Depp threatened to 'slice up my face' with a bottle before trashing their house with raw meat. 

Whitney Henriquez will go back on the stand one day after passionately backing her sister Heard and saying Depp repeatedly attacked her - including once when she saw the actor grab her by the hair and hit her in the face.

Ms Henriquez will finish her evidence this morning before Heard's acting coach Kristina Sexton appears by video link from Australia and Heard's friends iO Tillett Wright and Raquel 'Rocky' Pennington give evidence from the US. 

Heard gave a horrific account of the carnage of her husband's three-day ecstasy and whisky rampage at their rented house on the Gold Coast in Australia, where he was shooting a Pirates of the Caribbean film in March 2015.

She told Mr Justice Nicol: 'He held me up against the fridge by my neck, screaming at me for ruining his life. He said over again I had ruined his f****** life, and that I did this, I did this to him, I made him mad. He held a bottle to my face and said he would slice up my face.'

She said Depp had washed down ten ecstasy tablets with whisky before he ripped off her clothes and grabbed her breasts, choked and slapped her and hurled her over a ping-pong table. 

She said the self-confessed alcoholic pelted her with 30 bottles 'like grenades' after she complained about his drinking.

He held her by the neck while smashing a phone 'repeatedly over and over into the wall, screaming at the top of his lungs' until the phone 'disappeared' into shredded bits, she said.

It was this, she suggested, that cut off the tip of Depp's finger – later discovered behind the bar – rather than his claim that it was a vodka bottle she hurled at him. 

Heard says she barricaded herself in the bedroom and the next morning found a scene of total devastation.

She said: 'There appeared to be mashed potatoes and gravy rubbed all over the door. There was a bird in the house that scared me to death – I guess it had flown in through a broken window.

'Then I started seeing all this blood on the carpet. There was blood everywhere, there was paint on the walls, then it started to become clear... they were messages.

'I could make out words but it didn't make sense. There was paint, blood, on the walls, messages to me. He wrote on lampshades, he had burned holes through cushions... there was blood and paint messages on cushions, there was a couch flipped over.'

Heard said that on the ground floor death metal music was blaring out and there were 'more messages in paint and blood'.

She added: 'I found raw meat. I continued to find it for the next day hidden in various places. He had taken my nightgown and ripped it into shreds and wrapped pieces of food... he had taken things from the fridge, smeared mashed potato and blood.' 

There was 'tons of broken glass – so much glass on the floor I could barely find a pathway to walk'. Among the £130,000 of damage Depp had allegedly scrawled a penis on to a painting of a topless woman.

When giving evidence, Depp insisted he had been trying to escape his wife's rages and called his security to rescue him as she berated him. He says his injured finger became infected with MRSA.  

Depp is suing The Sun newspaper for libel for calling him a 'wife beater'. 

His lawyers have suggested Heard changed her story about a separate incident after a photo showed her with a clear face alongside her husband, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and her sister in Los Angeles.

At first she said Depp beat her up on March 8, 2013, but later she said it was in fact on March 23, the day after the snap was taken.

Yesterday, as more photos emerged of the sisters and Richards taken on March 21, Ms Henriquez told the court she too had made 'a mistake' over the dates. 

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attend the red carpet event for 'Black Mass' at the Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2015

Heard denied faking images of bruises and clumps of ripped-out hair after witnesses said they had seen no injuries on her. 'I never leave the house without make-up. I live in LA,' she explained.

Depp is suing over the publication of an article on April 27, 2018 with the headline: 'Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be 'genuinely happy' casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?'

His lawyers say the article bore the meaning there was 'overwhelming evidence' Depp assaulted Heard on a number of occasions and left her 'in fear for her life'.

Sun publisher News Group Newspapers is defending the article as true, saying Depp was 'controlling and verbally and physically abusive towards Heard, particularly when he was under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs'.

The blockbuster case, the biggest English libel trial of the 21st century, is due to finish next week with closing submissions from both sides' legal teams on Monday and Tuesday. The trial continues.