Two mothers of students at a top Sydney private school are suing each other for defamation over comments posted to parent WeChat groups.
The pair became friends in mid-2011 as their children attended Knox Grammar, but by March 2016 they were in open warfare online.
The feud escalated to such heights that it will go before the NSW Supreme Court, amid claims from both sides the other ruined their reputation among the school mums.
Two mothers at a top Sydney private school are suing each other for defamation over comments posted to parent WeChat groups
Some of the messages posted on the WeChat group seen by dozens of other school mums
The first mother claimed her nemesis implied she taught her children to be violent, and once tried to avoid a random breath test and run over a police officer.
She also allegedly made her out to be a ‘savage’ and unethical person and an incompetent manager in posts seen by more than 1,000 WeChat members.
The second mother is counter-suing over a series of other messages to the Knox English as a Second Language and Knox Mothers WeChat groups, seen by dozens of members.
‘In front of me you call me baby and darling, and behind my back you stab me madly with a knife,’ she wrote, according to court papers seen by Daily Mail Australia.
‘You really think that you are a high class lady by sending your children to a private school, and by buying a few fake handbags?’
The pair became friends in mid-2011 as their attended Knox, but by March 2016 they were in open warfare online
The first mother also claimed the only reason the other one’s son got into Knox was because she noticed the vacancy and vouched for her with the school.
She called her a ‘bitch’ with a ‘fake face’ who was ‘phony and pretentious’, and labelled her a ‘green tea prostitute’.
The second mother responded on another forum by saying the other was ‘bitching like a vixen’ and accused her of destroying a family back in China by having an affair with a married man.
‘Such a person who was a mistress and destroyed the families of others is bad in essence,’ she wrote.
She claimed that although the first mother boasted about getting her son into Knox, she already had reference letter from two other friends.
‘This is the first time in my life I have met this type of shrew,’ she wrote.
‘I feel very sorry to have met someone s**tty like you. It feels like stepping on [dog poo emoji].’
Wei hit out at her for attacking others for buying fake products when she did too, and claimed she ‘brutally attacked and abused’ her in Year 4 groups.
The second mother is counter-suing over a series of other messages to the Knox English as a Second Language and Knox Mothers WeChat groups, seen by dozens of members
In her defence, the second mother argued her messages didn’t defame the first mother as she claimed, and even if they did she could defend them as being largely true.
She wrote that she was referring to a 2012 playdate where the first mother encouraged the other’s 12-year-old daughter to hit her own 7-year-old child.
Other messages were referring to a dinner party where the first mother’s husband told the story about trying to dodge a breath test and running down the police officer.
She said it was only the policeman’s quick reaction time that stopped him from sustaining more than a skin bruise, and that she bought him off to avoid charges.
The pair were ordered to mediation in May but after that failed a five-day trial date was earlier this month set for July next year.
Knox said it would not comment on a legal matter between two people and the WeChat groups were not official or endorsed by the school.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest any of the allegations made by either of the mothers are true, with the claims still to be determined by the court.