Kyle enlists lawyers to end 'mudslinging'

Love rat star's bid to shield the kids

- TOM BRYANT

FOOTBALLER Kyle Walker has instructed new lawyers to try to stop the "mudslinging" over his relationship with Lauryn Goodman.

The Man City star's marriage to wife Annie Kilner, seven months pregnant with their fourth child, has been in tatters since it was revealed he had fathered a second child with Lauryn.

Now he has enlisted London firm Payne Hicks Beach, experts in dispute resolution, to draw a line under the affair to protect the 19 children, and bring an end to the "tsunami of false allegations that are in no one's best interests".

A pal said England ace Walker hoped they could "all move on like adults rather than endless mud-slinging".

Walker, 33, has a three-year-old son, Kairo, with Lauryn, who told Annie on Boxing Day that he was also the father of her five-month-old daughter.