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Tuesday 9 August 2022 11:46 AM Ryan Giggs trial: Kate Greville said ex-Manchester United star accused her of ... trends now

Tuesday 9 August 2022 11:46 AM Ryan Giggs trial: Kate Greville said ex-Manchester United star accused her of ... trends now

Kate Greville broke down in a police interview where she described how Ryan Giggs 'dragged' her out of a hotel room naked and dumped her in the corridor after she accused him of texting another woman in an affair that began when she asked him to sign a football shirt for her mother.

The former Manchester United star, 48, is accused of headbutting his former girlfriend, 36, during a row at his £1.7million mansion after controlling and abusing her for three years in a 'toxic' and 'coercive' relationship.

Today the court was played Ms Greville's 105 minute interview with detectives in November 2020 after the alleged assault, where she described how they started having affair having bonded over their unhappy marriages.

Ms Greville told police she left her husband after falling in love with her 'soulmate' and 'best friend' Giggs before 'red flags' emerged and he began calling her a 'whore' and accused him of 'f***ing someone else' if she didn't see him. 

Recalling a row when they were staying in an Abu Dhabi hotel, she said: 'I asked him "are you messaging a girl?" She said Giggs threw her out the room while she was naked and said: 'He flipped, went right up to my face and said "how f***ing dare you, it's my daughter. We're done, we're over.'

'He grabbed me by my wrist, so hard, literally dragged me to the lounge and dragged me of the floor. He threw all of my stuff, all of my make-up in the corridor and shut the door and wouldn't let me in', she said.

She worked for a PR firm used by one of Giggs' business and they first met in 2013, and said: 'Over a course of a year, two years, I started to notice he had a definite interest in me'. In 2016 they had an affair and she left her husband after two months, claiming the ex-footballer 'saved her' and their relationship was 'more than a sexual thing'.

'He would say I was his soulmate. We would talk for hours. He helped me get out of that situation', she said, but then said 'red flags' emerged when she failed to respond to messages or didn't see him, and told a police officer that he would claim she was 'f****** someone else' and call her a 'whore'.

They then split up when the affair emerged in the media in May 2016 and Giggs hadn't left his wife Stacey. She then moved to Abu Dhabi but Giggs 'kept pursuing and messaging me', she said, claiming that her lover's wife and daughter sent her 'nasty messages'.

She tells the officer she then discovered Giggs had not left his family home so she decided she was 'done' and blocked Giggs 'on everything'. But after he messaged her up to 30 times a day she claimed that he told her she was 'the love my life' only to discover he was seeing another woman. 'I was absolutely devastated', Ms Greville said.

Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, 48, is pictured arriving at Manchester Minshull Street Court on Tuesday after a court heard on Monday how he harboured a 'sinister and ugly side'

Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, 48, is pictured arriving at Manchester Minshull Street Court on Tuesday after a court heard on Monday how he harboured a 'sinister and ugly side'

Mr Giggs, pictured today, is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville and her sister Emma. He denies all charges

Mr Giggs, pictured today, is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville and her sister Emma. He denies all charges

Giggs (left), 48, is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate Greville (right), 36, between August 2017 and November 2020. The pair are pictured here on holiday in 2018

Giggs (left), 48, is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate Greville (right), 36, between August 2017 and November 2020. The pair are pictured here on holiday in 2018

The court heard how the ex-Wales winger said in the messages, sent to ex-girlfriend Emma Greville: 'I am am so f****** mad right now I¿m scaring myself because I could do anything,' before adding: 'I actually hate you for what you¿ve done to me. Hate you. HATE HATE HATE...'. Pictured: A mock-up version of the messages read out in court yesterday

The court heard how the ex-Wales winger said in the messages, sent to ex-girlfriend Emma Greville: 'I am am so f****** mad right now I'm scaring myself because I could do anything,' before adding: 'I actually hate you for what you've done to me. Hate you. HATE HATE HATE...'. Pictured: A mock-up version of the messages read out in court yesterday

She told police that in 2017 they met at a hotel but Giggs 'flipped' when she said he was a cheat. Giggs allegedly told her: 'You made me do this... I don't want to be with you anymore' - and dumped her naked in the corridor with her belongings. She was 'dragged' there by the wrist, she told detectives. 

The former Manchester United star, 48, is in the dock at Minshull Street Court where he is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend Ms Greville between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville and her sister Emma. He denies all charges.

The messages sent by ex-Manchester United star Ryan Giggs to his then girlfriend Kate Greville

One (after Miss Greville had blocked him from sending her messages) read: 'Please unblock me. All this blocking malarkey is poo. Promise, no more naked piccies.'

In second message entitled 'LIES, LIES LIES' Giggs wrote: 'Only an evil, horrible **** does that... Now I look like an utter t*** telling my three of my friends I am going to Scotland at the weekend.

'I simply cannot believe you f****** did that.

'I am so f****** mad right now I'm scaring myself because I could do anything.

'I actually hate you for what you've done to me. Hate you.

'HATE HATE HATE.'

A third message featured the header 'blackmail' but jurors were only told that it contained the word 'please' as well as an unspecified attachment.

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Giggs stood down in June as manager of the Wales national team following his arrest. During their three-year relationship he is alleged to have subjected Ms Greville to a campaign of 'control and coercion' which created a 'cycle of abuse'. 

He allegedly subjected his ex-girlfriend to a 'litany' of physical and psychological abuse before headbutting her in the face when she tried to leave him. 

In her police interview played to the jury today, Kate Greville said she had worked for Mr Giggs as a PR advisor to one of his companies. She said that she became aware he was attracted to her in a meeting where he allegedly 'kept staring at me'. She said it was both unnerving and 'flattering'.

Ms Greville then claimed that he pursued her - and she told him her mother wanted him to sign a football shirt, knowing it would lead somewhere.

She said: 'I went to meet him at the hotel, got the shirt signed and he asked me to stay for a drink

'He would tell me about his marriage and how he wasn't happy, I would talk about mine and things developed from there and we began an affair. I left my marriage two months before anything happened… it was like I had met my best friend and my saviour, he was the one to save me from that marriage and get me out of that situation

'He was said I was his best mate and soul mate, it was more than a sexual thing… he was like you're the love of my life'.

After nine months the affair ended because he hadn't left his wife. She tyold police that she then decided to move abroad.   

She told police: 'This went on for nine months, I thought he'll never split up with Stacey so I made the decision to move to Abu Dhabi, it wasn't good for me mentally and people started to find out things at work.

'I went to Abu Dhabi and I thought in my head he won't keep chasing after me but he did. I told him he needed to leave because he was still with Stacey. My values, it didn't sit well. It wasn't exciting to me he was with somebody else.

'He messaged me and told him he had moved out in October and they had split up and then I found they weren't. It was complete mind games.

'Then the media got hold of the fact we were together or something had gone on and it all came out in May 2016. It was horrendous, I got hounded by the paps, emails off media saying my life was ruined unless I sold my story. His wife and daughters were sending me nasty messages, understandably.

'He massively supported me but I found out he hadn't actually been split up for the whole time. Five months I thought they weren't together and for four they were.

'I said this is it I'm done, I blocked him on emails and off my phone. It was like I was addicted to him, it was like I couldn't get him out of my head.'

She said the relationship left her with 'horrendous anxiety' but she said Giggs was good at convincing her that 'everything was fine'.

Jurors heard how Giggs (pictured above in a court sketch yesterday) 'lost control' and allegedly headbutted his girlfriend at his £1.7m home before going on to assault her sister, Emma Greville

Jurors heard how Giggs (pictured above in a court sketch yesterday) 'lost control' and allegedly headbutted his girlfriend at his £1.7m home before going on to assault her sister, Emma Greville

Greville said she later got back into the room and asked Giggs 'what's just happened?' but said she apologised to him. She said it was the 'first incident' of him being aggressive to her.

In the police interview, which was conducted in November 2020 after she accused Giggs of assaulting her during an argument at his home in Worsley, Manchester, she said she returned to the UK and continued with their relationship. But she said Giggs became too controlling and started dating other women.

GIGGS' 'COERCIVE AND CONTROLLING BEHAVIOUR' DETAILED TO JURY 

Ryan Giggs' alleged assault on his former girlfriend, which prompted his arrest, was merely the culmination of years of abuse, the court heard.

Mr Wright detailed some of the incidents under which Giggs stands accused of using coercive or controlling behaviour and evidence of his 'much uglier and more sinister side'.

The incidents included:

Messaging Ms Greville and/or blocking her when she was on nights out with others, or she asked about Giggs' relationship with others. Threatening to send images 'of a personal nature' to her friends. Throwing her belongings out of his house when she questioned him about relationships with other women. At a London hotel, rowing in the hotel suite and throwing her bag at her. Appearing unwanted at her home or gym and contacting her friends to get her to speak to him again.

Mr Wright said these snapshots of his behaviour provided a 'shaft of light' on the real Ryan Giggs, who 'stays in the dark, not the public persona'. 

The prosecutor added: 'This was a manipulative, toxic, damaging relationship by a man upon a vulnerable woman.'

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Yesterday on the first day of his trial, the court heard how the former Manchester United star, 48, sent swear-word filled messages to his ex-girlfriend, asked her to unblock him on the

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