Friday 12 August 2022 11:01 AM Messages between Ryan Giggs and his ex-girlfriend will be read to court today trends now

Friday 12 August 2022 11:01 AM Messages between Ryan Giggs and his ex-girlfriend will be read to court today trends now
Friday 12 August 2022 11:01 AM Messages between Ryan Giggs and his ex-girlfriend will be read to court today trends now

Friday 12 August 2022 11:01 AM Messages between Ryan Giggs and his ex-girlfriend will be read to court today trends now

A smiling Ryan Giggs has arrived for the fifth day of his assault trial where texts between him and Kate Greville will be read out in court today.

The former Manchester United winger is in the dock at Manchester Crown Court accused of headbutting his ex-girlfriend during an incident at his £1.7million mansion - as well as controlling and coercive behaviour.

The former couple were 'attached almost umbilically' to their phones and Ms Greville claims he had 'conditioned' and 'programmed' her to get upset if he did not respond to her 'instantly'. 

In her evidence this week, she alleged Giggs would have a similar angry reaction if she failed to reply to him within ten minutes, calling her a 'whore' and accusing her of sleeping with other men.

Giggs smiled as he arrived at Manchester Crown Court this morning for day five of his trial

Giggs smiled as he arrived at Manchester Crown Court this morning for day five of his trial

His former girlfriend, Kate Greville (pictured), 36, told the court how Giggs had 'headbutted her' during a row at his Manchester mansion in November 2020. She also told police he was having affairs with 12 women

His former girlfriend, Kate Greville (pictured), 36, who earlier this week told the court how Giggs had 'headbutted her' during a row at his Manchester mansion in November 2020

Ryan Giggs' former girlfriend, Kate Greville (pictured), 36, told the court how the ex-footballer (left today) had 'headbutted her' during a row at his Manchester mansion in November 2020. She also told police he was having affairs with 12 women

Jurors were yesterday shown video of Ms Greville sobbing as she told police that the former Wales midfielder had been having affairs with a dozen women.

The PR executive was filmed on a bodycam speaking to officers after the ex-Manchester United star allegedly headbutted her in his £1.7million mansion in Worsley, Greater Manchester in November 2020.

Giggs is in on trial accused of assaulting Ms Greville and her sister Emma during the incident. He is also accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour against Ms Greville between August 2017 and November 2020. He denies both charges and is on trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Ryan Giggs trial - A summary: What the jury heard on Thursday - on day four of the trial - as Kate Greville faced cross-examination
Jurors were yesterday shown video of Kate Greville sobbing as she told police after the alleged assault in November 2020 that the former Wales midfielder had been having affairs with a dozen women; She esterday denied claims by the former Manchester United star's lawyers that she planned to 'get pregnant' as their relationship broke down; She insisted that a text sent to her friend saying 'I am not walking away with nothing' was in relation to the couple's dog; Ms Greville also said a text saying that she needed a 'plan' was relating to a plan to get away from Giggs after allegedly finding evidence that he was having 'full-on' affairs with eight other women during their relationship;  Ms Greville was quizzed by Giggs's lawyer, Chris Daw QC on her having her contraceptive coil removed around that time; She also admitted to the court that she had lied to Giggs about visiting the hospital to have a check on 'cancerous cells' following a smear test; Ms Greville told the court: 'I was getting my coil out and I also wanted a STD test. I wanted him off my back. I completely regret saying these things but I needed to say something to get him off my back and for him to leave me alone.' Mr Daw suggested the pair had continued to have sex after she had her coil removed, alleging to her during cross-examination: 'Your plan was to get pregnant by Mr Giggs'; Kate Greville said the former footballer kicked her in the back 'so hard' that she 'fell off the bed' and to the floor during a hotel in London in 2019; A tearful Ms Greville said she was 'ashamed' of the decision to 'keep going back' to the ex Manchester United star, telling jurors: 'It was a cycle of abuse that he promised the world. He was very convincing, he could be very charming'; Mr Daw also took aim at Ms Greville's suggestions that Giggs had interfered in her relationships with her friends in the lead up to the end of their relationship in November 2020; He said in the months before their break-up, Ms Greville had enjoyed three holidays, to Ibiza, Portugal and Greece - the latter two of which she had flown out with her friends; The court heard how Giggs and Ms Greville were 'utterly addicted' to messaging and expected each other to reply 'in seconds'; Giggs's lawyer, Chris Daw QC, said Ms Greville would complain about the footballer's response times to her messages, but she told the court she had been 'conditioned' to behave like this; The court also heard about an alleged incident in the Stafford Hotel in London in December 2019, when Ms Greville alleges she was thrown out of their room 'naked' by Giggs, who then 'threw a laptop' at her head;  Mr Daw told the court that the pair had exchanged messages the next day and that he had offered to collect her from Shrewsbury the following morning;  Asked why Giggs came to collect her when he could have got a taxi, she said: 'He felt guilty about what he had done the night before'; But the barrister responded: 'This was the day after you claim he violently assaulted you and reading these messages we don't even get a hint of that'.

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Yesterday, jurors were shown police body-cam footage of Ms Greville speaking to police in the aftermath of the alleged incident.

In the footage, she tells officers: 'I found he had been cheating on me for the last six years with ten or 12 women. Every time I found something it got worse, I found his iPad, kept it all to myself for two weeks'. Ms Greville claims that Giggs had began 'flipping his s**t' and attacking her after she confronted him.

On the first day of his trial this week she told police in a later interview that he had eight other 'full-on relationships that had gone on constantly from 2014'.

The evidence emerged as the former Manchester United star's legal team accused Ms Greville of having 'stopped contraception in a plot to get pregnant by him'.

She denied claims by the footballer's lawyers that she 'planned to get pregnant' as their relationship broke down, the court heard.

Yesterday under cross examination Ms Greville had admitted to lying to Giggs about having cancerous cells detected in a smear test so she 'would not have to have sex with him'. As their relationship came to an end she also messaged a friend saying: 'I am not walking away with nothing', amid claims she was trying to have his baby.

The messages were sent after the PR executive began to 'plan' leave Giggs, having allegedly found evidence on the footballer's iPad that he had conducted 'full-on' affairs with eight other women during their relationship.  

The court was told how in October 2020, having found the messages, Ms Greville messaged a friend saying: 'I need a plan'. Referring to the message, Christopher Daw QC, representing Giggs, 48, asked Ms Greville: 'What were you talking about?'

Ms Greville told the court: 'I needed a plan to get away in secret so he couldn't find me, so he wouldn't harass me. And how to let him know how I had found all those things out.'

Mr Daw said: 'And walking away (with nothing)?' Ms Greville replied: 'I am talking about my dog. One hundred per cent, just the dog.' Mr Daw said: 'Your plan was to get pregnant by Mr Giggs.' Ms Greville said: 'No, absolutely not.' 

The court also heard how Ms Greville messaged her friend saying that she was getting her contraceptive coil removed that week. The court heard Ms Greville later did have the coil removed, having told Giggs she was going to hospital after a smear test showed 'cancerous cells'.

Chris Daw said: 'The truth is you were going to have your contraceptive out.'

Ms Greville told the court: 'I was getting my coil out and I also wanted a STD test. I wanted him off my back. I completely regret saying these things but I needed to say something to get him off my back and for him to leave me alone.'

Mr Daw said: 'The true position is there was no medical emergency for the coil to be taken out.' Ms Greville replied: 'There was no medical emergency but it (the coil) was coming to an end and it needed taking out.'

'If I was saying I had cancerous cells then I would not have to have sex with him.'

Mr Daw, refering to text messages between the pair, said: 'I am going to suggest you were having active, regular and very enthusiastic sex with Mr Giggs at this time including when you had this coil removed.' Ms Greville said: 'I disagree.'

It comes as the court heard claims from Ms Greville that Giggs had kicked her in the back 'so hard' that she 'fell off the bed' during a stay at the Stafford Hotel in London in December 2019.

Ms Greville had previously alleged that during the incident she was thrown out of their room by Giggs, who then 'threw a laptop' at her head

The PR executive also previously told Giggs's trial at Manchester Crown Court how the defendant had thrown her naked into a corridor during a separate incident at a hotel Dubai in September 2017. 

It comes as Ms Greville was quizzed by Giggs's barrister about her decision to continue her relationship with the ex-footballer, despite her claims of physical and mental abuse.

Mr Daw also questioned her decision to move into the ex-Wales winger's £1.7million mansion at the start of the first Covid lockdown in March 2020.

But a tearful Ms Greville said she was 'ashamed' of the decision to 'keep going back' to Giggs, telling jurors: 'It was a cycle of abuse that he promised the world. He was very convincing, he could be very charming.

'I went back again stupidly and I am ashamed of that, hugely ashamed of that, but I did.'

Mr Daw also took aim at Ms Greville's suggestions that Giggs had interfered in her relationships with her friends in the lead up to the end of their relationship in November 2020 - when Giggs is accused of 'headbutting' her and assaulting her sister Emma.

He said in the months before their break-up, Ms Greville had enjoyed three holidays, to Ibiza, Portugal and Greece - the latter two of which she had flown out with her friends.

But Ms Greville replied: 'He was creating really difficult relationships with these people. There's many more months and weeks that I have a relationship with my friends that can be difficult. That's just a holiday, or a long weekend.' 

She also accused of the former Manchester United star of 'flirting' with her friend in 'front of her face' and then asking: 'Does that make you jealous?'. 

Mr Daw also addressed claims made by Ms Greville earlier in the trial that she had found evidence on an iPad that the former footballer had engaged in 'full on' relationships with eight other women while with the PR executive.

He suggested that Ms Greville's decision to leave the former footballer was 'nothing to do with coercion, violence or anything like that - it was just to do with his cheating.' Ms Greville said it was also about his 'coercion and control and manipulating.' 

Ryan Giggs mother Lynne at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to support her son yesterday

Ryan Giggs mother Lynne at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court to support her son yesterday

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

Ryan Giggs at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday, watching ex-girlfriend Kate Greville giving evidence on police video played to the jury after he is alleged to have headbutted her

Ryan Giggs at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday, watching ex-girlfriend Kate Greville giving evidence on police video played to the jury after he is alleged to have headbutted her

Yesterday Ms Greville addressed a photograph that appeared in a national newspaper in the days that followed his alleged headbutting to 'turn the public against him'.

PR executive Kate Greville, 36, told Manchester Crown Court she arranged for the picture to be taken of her walking her dog along a country lane because she wanted members of the media to leave her doorstep.

She alleges the former Manchester United footballer grabbed her by the shoulders, looked her in the eye and headbutted her face following a row at their home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on November 1 2020.

Jurors at the trial of Giggs, 48, heard that an article appeared in The Sun newspaper on November 16 with the photograph and a story which read: 'Living hell. Ryan Giggs's ex spotted with a bruised lip in first outing since Wales manager's assault arrest'.

Ryan Giggs's ex-girlfriend tells court how former footballer 'kicked her off a bed' during row in London hotel room

Ryan Giggs's ex-girlfriend claimed in court that the former footballer 'kicked her off a bed' during a row in a London hotel room.

Giggs' barrister Chris Daw QC referred to an alleged incident at the Stafford Hotel in London, in December 2019.

Referring to Ms Greville's witness statement, he said: 'You said 'Giggs threw a bag at my head with a laptop in it which caused my head to swell and bruise, kicked me out of bed and threw me out of the hotel room naked again'.

'You said the first time he was abusive to me was in a Dubai hotel room three years ago. 'He dragged me by my arms and threw me out of the hotel room naked and then you say the second was at a hotel room in London'.

'In your interview, you said he kicked you off the bed so hard you landed on the floor.

The barrister said: 'Is that your evidence? He kicked you so hard you fell off the bed or in your interview were you trying to make everything sound as bad as it could?'

Ms Greville replied: 'No it was 100 per cent what happened.'

The barrister referred to messages between Giggs and Ms Greville at the time of the trip to London, describing them as 'good natured' and 'good humoured' the day after the alleged incident on December 6.

On the following day, Ms Greville sent a message to Giggs while on a train to a wedding in Shrewsbury, saying 'OMG dying' because she had a hangover.

Giggs replied to her saying: 'Ropey'.

The barrister pointed out that there was nothing to suggest that she had been violently assaulted the day before.

Ms Greville said: 'No, because he made me feel like it was my fault.'

The court heard Giggs travelled from London to Manchester and he picked Ms Greville up from Shrewsbury the next day

She messaged him to say: 'Thank you for coming to get me, it's very lovely of you.'

She said: 'I needed to be at a work thing with him in Manchester and there were no trains from Shrewsbury.'

Asked why Giggs came to collect her when he could have got a taxi, she said: 'He felt guilty about what he had done the night before.'

The barrister said: 'This was the day after you claim he violently assaulted you and reading these messages we don't even get a hint of that.'

Ms Greville said: 'He made me feel like it was his fault, he made me feel insecure and made me feel I couldn't have a problem with what happened because it was my fault.'

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A week earlier on November 10 a friend messaged her: 'I'm selling the next pic of you and getting some paper out of this (laughing emojis)'

Ms Greville replied: 'We can set up a pic and get money for both of us. What do you think?'

The friend said: 'I think yes.' Ms Greville wrote back: 'We could get 5K.' The friend said: 'And kit our new apartment out.'

Ms Greville replies: 'I think more to cover my legal costs (laugh emoji).' Three days later her friend wrote: 'Let's f****** do it. 'A sofa like Molly-Mae's would be like 10K.'

Ms Greville said: 'Need to sell some more stories.' The complainant went on send her friend a link to The Sun article.

She tells her she looks 'awful but me looking rough makes it look less staged'.

Ms Greville wrote: 'I think it's good I look shit to be honest.'

Under cross-examination, Chris Daw QC, representing Giggs, asked 'But it was staged, wasn't it?'

Ms Greville replied: 'Yes, I did set it up.'

Mr Daw said: 'You were setting up for public consumption a completely staged photograph where you were deliberately trying to make it look like something had happened to you?'

Ms Greville said: 'No, I am not talking about an injury there.'

Mr Daw said: 'You were trying effectively to tell the whole world a completely false story.'

Ms Greville replied: 'I was trying to stop the paps turning up on my doorstep every day.

'To take back control.

'Obviously I had an injury and I wanted to show them the reality but it was about stopping the photographers and press turning up at my family's door twice/three times a day to get pics of me.'

Mr Daw said 'You were trying to get the public to turn on Mr Giggs.'

Ms Greville replied: 'I wanted control of that first photograph and then it would end because they kept harassing me.'

Asked if she enhanced her appearance with make-up for the purpose of the photograph, Ms Greville replied: 'No.'

Mr Daw said: 'You just had a tiny, minor contact with Mr Giggs on the night (November 1).

'I suggest you have enhanced that with make-up to make it much worse than it was.'

Ms Greville replied: 'Not at all.'

Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, asked Ms Greville: 'Did you have any involvement in the written content of The Sun article?'

'No,' said Ms Greville.

Mr Wright said: 'Were you ever interviewed by anyone by the press?'

Ms Greville said: 'No.' Mr Wright went on: 'Have you every sought to be interviewed by anyone from the press?

'No,' she repeated. Mr Wright asked her: 'Were you left alone?' Ms Greville said: 'Not really, no.'

Mr Wright said: 'Did you sell a story to the press?' Ms Greville said: 'No.'

Mr Wright asked: 'Did you sell the photograph that was taken of you?' Ms Greville said: 'No.' Mr Wright asked: 'Did you ever ask for payment?' 'No,' the witness replied.

Mr Wright said: 'We have seen the messages with your friend Courtney ... discussing about what you might do. Did you ever do it?' Ms Greville replied: 'No.'

She told the court that she voluntarily told the police about the article. Mr Wright asked: 'What was your purpose in having that photograph staged?' Ms Greville replied: 'It was to stop the press turning up at my doorstep.  I was scared to go out. I felt trapped and my mum and dad were getting harassed.'

Giggs denies using controlling and coercive behaviour against Ms Greville between August 2017 and November 2020, assaulting her, causing actual bodily harm, and the common assault of her younger sister.

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs arrives at Manchester Crown Court where he is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against ex-girlfriend Kate Greville. He denies the allegations

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs arrives at Manchester Crown Court where he is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against ex-girlfriend Kate Greville. He denies the allegations

On Thursday morning, the court also heard how the pair were 'utterly addicted' to messaging and expected each other to reply 'in seconds', jury members in the footballer's domestic assault trial have been told. 

Under cross-examination by Giggs's lawyer, Ms Greville, 36, was asked about her complaining to the former Manchester United star regarding his response time to her messages.

The PR executive had previously claimed the ex-footballer was 'unsupportive' of her career and would 'undermine' her, including when she was looking to leave her then employer, GG Hospitality, run by Giggs and former team-mate Gary Neville, and set up her own business.

She also claimed Giggs, who she earlier in the trial claimed was having 'full-on' affairs with eight other women during their relationship, had 'conditioned' her to reply instantly to text messages and had made her feel 'insecure'.

But Giggs' lawyer, Chris Daw QC, challenged her claims. He read out a message sent by Ms Greville to Ms Giggs, in which she said: 'My own f****** boyfriend can't reply to a message,' to which Giggs replied: 'WTF I was sorting the kids out.'

Asked about the message, Ms Greville replied: 'He had conditioned me to behaving like that, I was like you expect me to reply within seconds so why don't you reply within seconds. I used to do it back to him…'

Mr Daw replied: 'That's a form of programming he did on you?' Ms Greville said: 'He did it to me so I ended up doing it back to him.'

Mr Daw said: 'You were both like that and utterly addicted to messaging backwards and forwards.' She replied: 'We messaged a lot yes.'

Mr Daw said: 'You both expected instant replies or got upset.' Ms Greville said: 'He conditioned me to being like that.'

'Ryan was attached to his phone so for him to not look at his phone for an hour was nor normal at all… If I had not replied to something for an hour I would have got a message like that.'

Mr Daw said: 'That's what I was saying previously, you were just as bad as each other.'

Ms Greville said: 'I felt it was him making me like that, he was making me react and act like that. It wasn't a natural reaction for me to act like that.' She said Giggs made her feel 'very insecure'. 

The court heard how Giggs was 'entirely supportive' of his former girlfriend setting up her own business despite her claiming that he often undermined her career.

Mr Daw told the court about a message sent by Ms Greville in July 2019 saying; 'I need to talk about setting up my business. Not now but when we are together. I need some help with accounts ... need your help and advice.'

Ryan Giggs's lawyer questions ex-girlfriend's claim she was 'isolated' from her friends - as he tells a court she went on three holidays in the months before their break-up

Ryan Giggs's lawyer questioned a claim by the footballer's ex-girlfriend that he had 'isolated' her from her friends, saying that she went on three holidays without him in the months before their break-up. 

In cross-examination, Chris Daw QC brought up Kate Greville's allegations that Giggs had 'effectively isolated you or affected your relationships with friends and family'.

She said: 'His impact on how I was feeling - it made me not want to interact with my friends as much and tell them what was going on, most of the time I kept everything to myself, which obviously affected my relationship with my friends.'

Ms Greville said that she 'didn't frequently spend time with my family', but that her sister would regularly come to the house.

'She helped around the house, that's why [Giggs] liked her,' she said.

Mr Daw pointed out a number of photos of Ms Greville on holiday with friends in 2019 and 2020.

He said she had visited Ibiza with Giggs and her friends in 2020, before going without him to Greece and Portugal in the months before their break-up. 

He told the court it was a 'naked lie' Giggs did anything to stop her seeing her friends.

Ms Greville replied: 'He was creating really difficult relationships with these people. 

'There's many more months and weeks that I have a relationship with my friends that can be difficult. That's just a holiday, or a long weekend.'

 

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Giggs replied: 'I will sort everything baby xx.' Mr Daw told her: 'You were actively pursuing different career options... and he was entirely supportive.' She agreed and said: 'We were in a relationship and that's what people in relationships tend to do.'

But she later added that he would undermine her. She said: 'When I originally said I was going to leave GG he didn't want me to leave at all. That was a conversation. He told me in the office he didn't want me to leave.'

'He was like two different people. He'd say all these words but his actions didn't match his words.

'He would pepper the niceness with horribleness, and the other way around as well.'

Giggs' barrister Chris Daw QC referred to an alleged incident at the Stafford Hotel in London, in December 2019.

Mr Daw said Giggs' version of events on the night of the Stafford Hotel incident was that the pair had been at a work function and Ms Greville accused Giggs of flirting with a woman he had been paired with for a crazy golf competition.

Ms Greville said she had accused him of flirting but denied that she tried to 'wind him up' by flirting with another man at a club later on.

Mr Daw said that the next morning 'you said to him: 'I was so drunk I don't remember much about that night''.

Ms Greville told the court: 'While we were at breakfast I went to touch my head and my head was hurting. I said: 'Did you throw a bag at me last night?' and he said: 'Yes, but you wound me up that much you made me do it'.'

Mr Daw said: 'That's all just lies, isn't it?' Ms Greville replied: 'No, absolutely not.'

Referring to Ms Greville's witness statement about the incident itself, he said: 'You said 'Giggs threw a bag at my head with a laptop in it which caused my head to swell and bruise, kicked me out of bed and threw me out of the hotel room naked again'.

'You said the first time he was abusive to me was in a Dubai hotel room three years ago. 'He dragged me by my arms and threw me out of the hotel room naked and then you say the second was at a hotel room in London'.

'In your interview, you said he kicked you off the bed so hard you landed on the floor.

The barrister said: 'Is that your evidence? He kicked you so hard you fell off the bed or in your interview were you trying to make everything sound as bad as it could?'

Ms Greville replied: 'No it was 100 per cent what happened.'

The barrister referred to messages between Giggs and Ms Greville at the time of the trip to London, describing them as 'good natured' and 'good humoured' the day after the alleged incident on December 6.

On the following day, Ms Greville sent a message to Giggs while on a train to a wedding in Shrewsbury, saying 'OMG dying' because she had a hangover.

Giggs replied to her saying: 'Ropey'.

The barrister pointed out that there was nothing to suggest that she had been violently assaulted the day before.

Ms Greville said: 'No, because he made me feel like it was my fault.'

The court heard Giggs travelled from London to Manchester and he picked Ms Greville up from Shrewsbury the next day

She messaged him to say: 'Thank you for coming to get me, it's very lovely of you.' She said: 'I needed to be at a work thing with him in Manchester and there were no trains from Shrewsbury.'

Asked why Giggs came to collect her when he could have got a taxi, she said: 'He felt guilty about what he had done the night before.'

The barrister said: 'This was the day after you claim he violently assaulted you and reading these messages we don't even get a hint of that.'

The former Wales midfielder's ex-partner Kate Greville is being cross-examined by his lawyers on day four of the trial, at Manchester Crown Court

The former Wales midfielder's ex-partner Kate Greville is being cross-examined by his lawyers on day four of the trial, at Manchester Crown Court

Ms Greville said: 'He made me feel like it was his fault, he made me feel insecure and made me feel I couldn't have a problem with what happened because it was my fault.'

Ryan Giggs's ex-girlfriend tells court how footballer 'flirted' with her friends in front of him

Ryan Giggs' ex-girlfriend claimed in court that the ex-footballer 'flirted' with her friends in front of her.

Kate Greville said that former Manchester United star would flirt with one of her friends 'a lot, to my face', claiming he would say to her, 'Does it make you jealous?'

She added: 'He wasn't like that 24/7, every minute of every day, otherwise I would have got out of that situation.

'He peppered it with nice things and doing nice things - he wasn't every second of it horrible.'

Ms Greville said that by September 2020 her relationship with two of her close friends was 'definitely souring'.

Mr Daw said: 'Can I suggest to you that the person who made it difficult was you, not Mr Giggs?'

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Jurors also heard that Ms Greville had described living with the defendant during the first Covid-19 lockdown from March 2020 as 'utter hell'.

The pair moved in together for the first time after Giggs asked her to live with him at his property in Worsley, Greater Manchester, she said.

Mr Daw asked: 'Could you have gone to your parents or someone else? Ms Greville replied: 'Yes.'

Mr Daw said: 'Was one of the reasons you didn't because actually you wanted to spend time with Ryan in his rather larger house?'

The witness said: 'I wanted to stay with Ryan, not because of his house but because we had just started the relationship again.'

Mr Daw replied: 'Can I suggest that you would not have done that if he had been a serial and violent abuser?'

Ms Greville said: 'It was a cycle of abuse that made me feel insecure. I kept going back, he kept promising the world.

'He made me believe that he would not do it again and, stupidly, I went back. I am hugely ashamed of that but I did.'

Mr Daw played two videos to the jury of seven women and five men which showed the couple in lockdown - one in which they exercised together in the garden and the other rapping along to 50 Cent's In Da Club.

Mr Daw put it to Ms Greville that lockdown was obviously hard but the pair were doing normal things 'much of the time' and having fun.

Ms Greville said: 'It was not all fun. It doesn't mean he was being nice to me all the time. At the start of lockdown it was fine but it got progressively worse.'

During lockdown the couple also took part in online family quizzes, wine tasting on Zoom and had Michelin-starred chefs bring in food, the court heard.

But Ms Greville said there were arguments, including one involving loading the dishwasher.

She told the court: 'He was making me feel like I was stupid, the way I was loading it. I had to do it exactly the way he wanted to do it. That's just one example of many.'

Mr Daw said: 'You suggest in your various accounts that lockdown was a period of living hell.'

Ryan Giggs's ex-girlfriend 'went ballistic' after he called her by the name of his former wife Stacey

Kate Greville 'went ballistic' at Ryan Giggs after he accidentally called her by the name of his ex-wife while they were out with friends on holiday in Dubai, a court heard.

His barrister said the footballer had made the gaffe 'over the course of a few rose wines'.

Giggs had called her 'Stace' but then quickly corrected himself and said 'Kate'.

In earlier evidence, Ms Greville said that Giggs would call her 'Stacey' as the 'ultimate insult'.

His lawyer said that was the reason for her anger at Giggs, not an incident a few days before when she accused him of pulling her bag and causing her to fall on her knee, resulting in bruising.

Mr Daw said: 'An unfortunate slip of the tongue had caused you to go ballistic.'

He said it was the 'entire source' of her anger at Giggs to which she replied: 'I wasn't angry, I was upset and when I get upset I go silent and Ryan didn't like me going silent.'

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Ms Greville replied: 'I felt like I was losing my mind. I was having panic attacks. It was a horrific time for me.'

The court also heard how Ms Greville branded Giggs 'disgusting' as she told him 'I actually hate you' and 'I will find someone a million times better' in a rant-filled message after she found out about him cheating on her.

Ms Greville went through his phone after he returned home drunk and found he had been messaging other women.

Giggs had come home, vomited in the sink and then passed out in bed, she recounted earlier in her evidence.

She told the court that she also checked his iPad and says she found more evidence of him cheating on her.

Ms Greville admitted it was 'common' for Giggs to get attention from women.

Ms Greville also denied she had lied 'prolifically' to the police in her various accounts.

Mr Daw said to the witness: 'Throughout your evidence, from start to finish, on the issue of controlling and coercive behaviour you have twisted the truth very carefully to try to implicate him in crimes he did not commit.' Ms Greville replied: 'I have told the truth.' 

Mr Daw also asked Ms Greville where Giggs allegedly headbutted her during the alleged assault in November 2020.

She indicated to the court that it was her upper lip, between her lip and nose.

She said she had no idea which part of his head he used 'because I didn't see, because it was right in my face'.

Mr Daw said: 'It wasn't a headbutt, was it?'

Ms Greville replied: 'Of course it was a headbutt.' Mr Daw said: 'It was two faces coming together in a very minor form of contact.'

She said: 'That suggestion is completely false. What happened is he came at me with his arms on my shoulders, looked me straight in the eyes and headbutted me in my lip.'

Yesterday, Mr Daw QC, asked why Ms Greville had not told her friend and business partner Elsa Roodt about an alleged assault in Dubai in 2017 when asked.

Ms Greville, sat behind a curtain shielded from Giggs and the public gallery, said: 'I was embarrassed and I didn't want to admit it.'

Mr Daw said: 'It was a bruise caused by rough sex that the two of you enjoyed a lot.'  Ms Greville replied: 'That bruise was not caused by rough sex.'

The court also heard how a few days after the alleged Dubai incident Ms Greville messaged a photograph of herself to Giggs.

Kate Greville branded Ryan Giggs 'disgusting' in furious text messages after discovering his infidelity, court hears

Kate Greville branded Ryan Giggs 'disgusting' as she told him 'I actually hate you' and 'I will find someone a million times better' in a rant-filled message after she found out about him cheating on her.

Ms Greville went through the footballer's phone after he returned home drunk and found he had been messaging other women.

Giggs had come home, vomited in the sink and then passed out in bed, she recounted earlier in her evidence.

She told the court that she also checked his iPad and says she found more evidence of him cheating on her.

Ms Greville admitted it was 'common' for Giggs to get attention from women.

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The message read: 'Tan is coming along nicely. My sex bruise is coming along nicely too!!'

Mr Daw added: 'The truth of it is you did from time to time get bruises from sex.' Ms Greville said: 'Not that I recall.'

Confirming that she had not reported the alleged assault to police in Dubai, she said: 'No, I didn't admit to the assault because I was embarrassed but I told Elsa we had argued. 

'I was later to work, visibly shaken and very upset which was evident that day. I tried to play down the bruising on my arm.'

Digging deeper into the pair's sex life, Mr Daw also told the court that Giggs had purchased and shared images of sex toys, including a paddle and handcuffs from lingerie brand Agent Provocateur.

Mr Daw said his client had bought the sex toys after Ms Greville had asked him to be 'more assertive' in the bedroom.

In a series of messages, read out in court by Mr Daw, Ms Greville messaged: 'I want you, rough.'

Mr Giggs messaged: 'Do you?

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