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Ryan Giggs had 'full-on relationships' with eight women during his time together with ex-girlfriend Kate Greville, his coercion and assault trial heard today.

Ms Greville, 36, told police in a video shown to the jury at Minshull Street Court that she made the discovery about his cheating while looking at his iPad shortly before she decided to leave him.

While scrolling through Giggs' tablet, she also said she saw messages to his friends calling her a 'sl*g' and 'silly cow' and a message in which he said he needed the 'bars to open' so he could go on the 'pull'.

She was interviewed by detectives weeks after she claimed Giggs, 48, headbutted her at his mansion Greater Manchester. Giggs constantly denied he was cheating on her, she said, but she 'needed to know the truth' as she checked on his device.

She said: 'The reality of what I had found on that iPad was way worse than I could imagine. Eight women he was having affairs with while he was with me. Full-on relationships.'

Ms Greville then said she decided to leave him while he was away managing Wales. 

She said: 'It was all there in black and white. I knew if I even brought it up he would deny it. I knew he was going away to manage Wales, about four weeks after I found out, so I just put a plan in place to leave.

'I sorted out a new flat, I wrote him a letter which I never got the chance to send. I knew if I confronted him about anything, it would just kick off. I just made a plan to leave, and I kept it in for three weeks, which sent me under. I just needed to take a bit of control.'

She had broken down in a police interview where she described how Ryan Giggs twice 'dragged' her out of a hotel room and dumped her in the corridor naked in rows over him texting and flirting with women - including one occasion where he allegedly kicked her in the back and threw a laptop at her head, a court heard today.

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

Today the court was played Ms Greville's 105 minute interview with detectives in November 2020 after he allegedly headbutted her at his £1.7million. 

She described how they started having an affair having bonded over their unhappy marriages. They were 'soul mates' and 'best friends' when they first got together, she claimed, but the three-year relationship would later become 'toxic' and 'coercive'. 

The 'cycle of abuse' included an email he sent to her titled 'blackmail' with a video 'we had done' and a threat to share it, she claimed, adding: 'He'd say: 'I'm going to send these messages to people if you don't reply'.'

Ms Greville also said: 'He wouldn't leave me alone, there was never a time when he didn't want to have sex'.

She alleged that in a London hotel room Giggs once 'kicked me in the back so hard that I flew off the bed and landed on the floor'. She then claims he 'dragged' her while naked into the suite area of the room.

'He got my bag with my laptop and threw it at my head', she told detectives, alleging that Giggs then locked her out of the hotel room naked, before letting her back in about 10 minutes later before having sex. 

Ms Greville told police it happened when she accused Giggs of flirting with other women in her presence. She said: 'I don't know whether he did it to make me jealous. He would completely ignore me and he would speak to everybody else. He would also flirt with my friends'.

She claimed he told her that he would ask whether it 'bothered' her when she flirted with them. Later she challenged him and claimed that Giggs told her it was 'over' and that she should apologise.

'I ended up saying sorry because he made me feel that bad,' she said.

After challenging him about the alleged back throwing, she claimed Giggs replied: 'He was like 'yeah, because you accused me of flirting'.

'He didn't say you deserve it, but you made me do it. And then I felt like it was my fault'.

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 off 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. 

The police interview began with Ms Greville describing how she had met Giggs in 2013 when she was working for a PR firm, in which Giggs was one of their clients.

They had an affair while she was married and Giggs was still wed to wife Stacey. Their relationship began after her mother asked her to get a shirt signed, she said.

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 her of 'f***ing someone else' if she didn't see him. 

She said Giggs made her feel 'paranoid' and 'like a psycho' when she confronted him over repeated affairs, claiming at one point he had two other girlfriends he was seeing behind her back. 

On one occasion she confronted him and he called her 'weak' for believing it. And as the relationship went on she alleged he bombarded her with sexual messages and photos and then threatened to publicly share explicit videos of them together.

She said: 'He'd come to my house in the morning, we'd have sex, it felt like he was just using me for sex. He wouldn't leave me alone, there was never a time when he didn't want to have sex. He'd come round to mine to have sex, then flew to Barcelona with a different girl.

'One minute he would be like, 'you're abusive, this is never going to work', and then he'd be sending me naughty pictures.

'If I didn't reply to him, I'd get a lot of abusive messages. He sent me an email once with blackmail [as the subject line] and it was a video of what we'd done. He'd say: 'I'm going to send these messages to people if you don't reply'.'

Giggs also 'did this gaslighting thing' that was 'very subtle' and 'constantly criticised' her, including how she loaded the dishwasher and how she made the bed, she told police, adding: 'It was like I was a housemaid, I was his staff member'.

On Day 2 of evidence at Ryan Giggs' trial, the court heard evidence from his former lover Kate Greville, who said:

On another occasion she said Giggs had walked out on her in a Dubai restaurant after she told him to come off his phone. She said: 'I was really upset, I don't understand what's happened. I went to my friend's house crying my eyes out, I didn't want to go back to the hotel room.'

The next day she said she received an email from an anonymous man who sent her a naked picture of Mr Giggs he had found on his wife's phone.

Ms Greville said: 'He said 'Is it him'. I knew it was him, I said yes who is it but he didn't tell me. He said he had kids and didn't want it to blow up.

'It's not nice when you see that and your whole body goes into shock. That was the first time I realised maybe he's not what I think he is. I confronted him and he tried to make up some story, he eventually told me who it was and she is married and said it was from ages ago and must have found it on her phone.

'It was the start of a pattern, he would do something bad and I'd accuse him he would get really aggressive and nasty with me. He then started to be really nice with me again and the nice Ryan I had before would come back. It created this push pull, he would do something bad but he would be really nice to me but it wouldn't last long and he would go back to himself when that little bit of guilt went away.'

Ms Greville said she was also messaged by another woman saying she was in a relationship with Giggs.

She said: 'At the time I had been naive… I still felt he was my world and we had a future and wanted to have a family… When I realised that it was like a rug had been pulled underneath my feet and I didn't want to carry on anymore.

'I never thought he would because of what I had gone through. I was just naive and gullible I guess….. I got the email and remember thinking he was my best friend and soulmate and the realisation he wasn't, I really struggled, it was really hard.

'But he wouldn't leave me alone and I worked for him. I would give him some s*** on messaging. It was me getting things off my chance. He would say 'I'm your boss, you can't talk to me like this' and said I was abusive. And then he would be sending me naughty pictures because I said 'That's it, I don't want anymore to do with you'.'

The alleged victim said this went on for four months but they would still go for dinner and would have sex. 

She said Mr Giggs would threaten her with her job and sent her an email headlined 'Blackmail' with a video 'we had done'.

She said: '(Giggs) said 'I'm going to send these messages and people will know what you've been doing.'

When asked if she knew what the video was of, Ms Greville said: 'I deleted it straight away, it could have been anything but it could have been a sexual video.

'It made me unblock him because I was scared. He would message my friends, he wanted to have sex all the time. He wouldn't pressurise me, no he would pressurise me for sex but he didn't force himself on me, he was using sex to get to me.

'He thought I was seeing some guy and he bombarded me. He said 'That's it, you're ruined, you're finished'...... It was a cycle of abuse and silence or sexual images over these four months. He would make me feel he was threatening my job which was so important and I was worried he would ruin my career.'

Kate said she had 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

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