A virtual element discretisation for the numerical approximation of three-field formulation linear poroelasticity introduced in R. Oyarzúa and Ruiz-Baier, (SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 54 2951–2973, 2016) is proposed. The treatment extended to include also transient case. Appropriate projector operators are they assist deriving energy bounds time-dependent discrete problem. Under standard assumptions o...