The ex-Manchester United player denies all the charges

Ryan Giggs allegedly threw a bag at his ex-partner and kicked her out of bed at a London hotel, a court has heard. The 48-year-old ex-Manchester United player is alleged to have used controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020 as well as assaulting her when she decided to split up with him.

He is also accused of common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville, at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on November 1, 2020. Giggs denies all charges and is on trial at Manchester Crown Court. Today barrister Christopher Daw QC, while cross-examining Kate Greville during her third day in the witness box, referred to an alleged incident at the Stafford Hotel in London in December 2019. That night resulted in Giggs being arrested by police, the court heard.

Mr Daw referred 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 didn’t say he kicked you in the back did you?”

Ms Greville said: “I didn’t. If that’s what my statement says I didn’t.” The barrister was asked to provide context by prosecutor Peter Wright QC. Mr Daw said: “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.” Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Mr Daw said: “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.” Ms Greville said: “I was giving more detail in this one. It was an overview in the last one.”

Mr Daw 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 said: “No it was 100% what happened.”

Mr Daw referred to messages between Giggs and Ms Greville at the time of the trip to London. He described the various messages as “good-natured” and “good-humoured” after the alleged incident on December 6. On the following day Ms Greville sent a video to Giggs. She sent a message to Giggs while on a train to a wedding in Shrewsbury, saying: “OMG dying.”

Mr Daw said: “The reference to you dying was because you had a hangover?” Ms Greville said: “Yes.” Giggs sent a message to her saying: “Ropey”.

Mr Daw said: “There’s nothing to suggest he violently assaulted you the night before.” Ms Greville said: “No because he made me feel like it was my fault.”

The 36-year-old later messaged Giggs: “Round three, pray for me.” She sent him a photo of herself. Mr Daw said: “It’s because you had been out the night before and you’re going to a wedding and having more to drink.” Ms Greville said: “Yes that’s what it’s about.”

Mr Daw said: “You say to Mr Giggs: ‘Hope you’re feeling better’. The tenor is the thing you’re feeling rough about is you having a hangover.” Ms Greville said.

When the case was opened prosecutor Peter Wright QC alleged Giggs subjected his ex-girlfriend to “systematic” physical and psychological attacks over more than three years and headbutted her when she tried to break up with him. Mr Wright said Giggs was “idolised” by fans but that the case would show a “much uglier and more sinister side to his character” that involved a “litany of abuse, both physical and psychological, of a woman that he professed to love”.

Mr Wright alleged that Giggs subjected Ms Greville to “systematic and at times violent abuse”. Mr Daw told the jury his client never once used unlawful violence against Ms Greville in the course of their relationship, “no matter how bad things got”, and described the allegations of assault against the Greville sisters as “lies” and “exaggeration”. The case continues.

Recap from Manchester Crown Court in the blog below.

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Prosecutor Peter Wright QC briefly reexamines the witness

Ms Greville was asked if she had been interviewed or quoted in a newspaper article

She said: “No.”

Mr Wright said: “Have they left you alone since, the press?”

Ms Greville said: “No not really (in tears).” Mr Wright said: “Did you sell a story to the press?”

Ms Greville said: “No.”

Mr Wright said: “Did you sell the photograph taken of you?”

Ms Greville said: “No.”

Mr Wright said: “Did you ever ask for payment?”

Ms Greville said: “No.”

He asked her if she told the police about the picture

Ms Greville said: “Yes because I felt bad about it.”

Mr Wright said: “What was your purpose of having this photograph staged?”

Ms Greville said: “To stop the press turning up on my doorstep, I was scared to go out and being told there were photographers waiting down the road and I hadn’t left the house.

"I felt trapped and my mum and dad were getting harassed and I wanted them to leave me alone. I shouldn’t have had those conversations and I feel ashamed but I didn’t ask for any money.”

Mr Daw said: “You were trying effectively to tell the world a complete false story.”

Ms Greville said: “I was trying to stop the stories and parazzi turning up at my door and trying to take back control. I had an injury and wanted to show the reality.

“I wanted to stop the paparazzi turning up outside my door and taking a picture of me… I took control and did it myself.”

Mr Daw said: “Normally when posing for a photo you would have worn make-up and not ‘look shit’.”

Ms Greville said: “I wasn’t posing for a photograph, I was walking down a lane with my dog.”

Mr Daw said: “You were trying to turn the public against Mr Giggs.”

Ms Greville said: I wanted to get control back of that first photograph of me because then they would stop harassing me

The witness had told her father in a text she “thought” there was a photographer.

She said: “I said that because I was ashamed for setting it up… People were knocking on the door saying there was a photographer waiting for me, they were coming to my mum’s house.”

Mr Daw said: “Did you enhance the appearance of that injury with make-up for the photograph? Three days later you did a video interview with police. Does that look anything like that on the photos?

Ms Greville said: Bruises change.”

Mr Daw said: “You just had a tiny minor contact with Mr Giggs’ face on the night and you have enhanced that with make-up to make it look worse than it was.”

Ms Greville said: No not at all.”

Mr Daw has finished his cross examination of Ms Greville.

The barrister continues to ask Ms Greville about the article.

Mr Daw said: “You did set this article up didn’t you?”

Ms Greville said: “I did yes.”

He added: “You were quite clever about how you did it.”

Mr Daw said Ms Greville sent a link to Ms Lang of The Sun story

He reads out more messages between her and Ms Lang.

Ms Greville messaged: “I actually do look like a man.”

Ms Lang said: “He used the not as nice one, the p****”

Ms Greville messaged: “I know… Awful.

“I suppose me looking rough makes it look less staged”

Mr Daw said: “It was staged wasn’t it?”

Ms Greville said: “Yes I said previously I set it up

Mr Daw said: “You say ‘I think it’s good I look super s*** to be honest no way people think they are staged.’

“You were setting up for public consumption a completely staged photograph where you were making it look like something serious had happened to you.”

Ms Greville said: “No I’m not talking about an injury, I’m talking about what I look like.”

Messages between Ms Greville and her sister Emma Greville are read out.

Emma Greville messaged: “How do you feel about the article?”

Kate Greville: “I look so s*** (Laughing emojis) Probs a good thing though…. Looks less staged.

Mr Daw said: “Was this funny?”

Ms Greville said: “No but I was saying I looked s***.”

Ms Greville is asked about an article in The Sun which Ms Greville agreed she participated in days after the alleged assault.

Mr Daw turns to messages sent between Ms Greville and her friend Courtney Lang.

Ms Lang messaged: “I’m selling the next pic of you and making some paper.”

Ms Greville messaged: “We can set up a pic and get money for both of us, what do you think?

Ms Lang messaged: “I think yes.”

Ms Greville messaged: “I reckon we could get £5k.”

Ms Lang said: “And kit our new apartment out.”

Ms Greville messaged: “I’m thinking more to cover my legal costs (Laughing emoji).”

Mr Daw said: “You’re joking about making money through the newspapers.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes but there’s a lot more background to that.”

The barrister reads out another message. Ms Lang messaged: “To get a sofa like Mollie Mae would cost £10k.”

Ms Greville said: “Need to sell some more stories.”

Mr Daw said: “You’re talking here about setting up a newspaper article about this case.”

Ms Greville said: “Not an article, it was a picture.”

Mr Daw said: “You tried to tell police it was all down to Courtney.”

Ms Greville said: “I didn’t say it as down to her, I said she put the idea in my head.”

Photographs are shown to the jury of Giggs’ home which show where the alleged assault on Ms Greville took place.

Mr Daw suggested Ms Greville made a grab for her phone in Giggs’ pocket and he ended up walking around the kitchen island with her trying to get the phone out of his pocket.

Ms Greville said she could not recall this

Mr Daw said Giggs “jammed” his hand in his pocket to prevent her from getting the phone out.

He said both of them were “tussling” when faces banged into each other in the mouth area.

Ms Greville said: “No that’s not correct.”

Mr Daw said: “Your allegation is he forcefully headbutted you in the face.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.” She pointed to her upper lip.

Mr Daw said: “Mr Giggs is taller than you, which part of his head headbutted you.”

Ms Greville said: “I couldn’t say.”

Mr Daw said: “It wasn’t a headbutt at all Ms Greville.”

Ms Greville said: “Of course it was a headbutt.”

Mr Daw said: “It was the two of you struggling over a phone and your two faces coming together in a minor contact.”

Ms Greville said: “Absolutely not, that’s not what happened. What happened was he came at me, put his arms on his shoulders, looked me straight in the eyes and headbutted me in my lip.”

Mr Daw said: “You have completely made up being headbutted in the face, that’s a lie isn’t it?”

Ms Greville said: “No it’s not a lie.”

Ms Greville was asked about the video

Mr Daw said it was not true that Giggs had headbutted her before.

Ms Greville it was not a “true reflection” as her head was “all over the place”.

She said: “I was confused, I didn’t know what had just happened to me. I was in shock. It was an extremely traumatic time.”

Mr Daw said: “You were dabbing your bottom lip with a cloth weren’t you.”

He said: “(Giggs) was not remotely physically violent at all.”

Ms Greville said: “I disagree.”

Mr Daw said: “I suggest you had your phone in your hand, he tried to grab hold of you phone in the hallway and when that happened there were bags in the hallway.”

Ms Greville said: “I agree.. That there were bags.”

Mr Daw said: “As he was trying to grab the phone, you were going backwards and you both tripped over the bags and fell backwards and he fell on top of you with his head around his waist.”

Ms Greville said: “No, I don’t recall his head being by my waist.”

Mr Daw said: “You started kicking out at him towards his face and upper body.”

Ms Greville said: “I disagree.”

Mr Daw said: “He managed to get to his feet and at that stage he didn’t have your phone.”

Ms Greville said: “I strongly disagree with that.”

Mr Daw said: “I suggest you then took his phone and put it on the window sill in the hallway.”

Ms Greville said: “Once he got my phone, I told him where his phone was. I said ‘Your phone is in the lounge’.”

Mr Daw said: “He gets up, there’s no assault, banging your head on the floor or pinning you down.”

Ms Greville said: “I disagree.”

Mr Daw said: “I suggest in fact he got your phone not from you, but because you had put it in the utility room.”

Ms Greville said: “I completely disagree with that.”

Mr Daw said: “That led to the second altercation when he took your phone from the utility room and put it in his pocket.

“He then was in the kitchen with your phone from your pocket and his own phone from the window sill.”

Ms Greville said: “I don’t know whether he had his phone or not.”

The trial adjourns for a short break.

Mr Daw said: “There were two episodes of physical contact between you, the first after you had hidden his phone and the result of that was he then tried to take your phone and eventually did get your phone.”

A video is played of body worn footage from a police officer of Ms Greville in the kitchen of Giggs’ home.

She is holding a cloth to her mouth and is upset throughout.

She says: “Basically, I found a load of s*** before I told him and kept it to myself. I found he had been cheating on me for the last six years with 10 or 12 women.

“Every time I found something it got worse I found his iPad, kept it all to myself for two weeks.

“He said, ‘how dare you’ about this guy and started flipping his s*** out at me. He started denying everything, I’ve got pictures of my phone of what he’s done

“He was like, 'get out’, I left and was packing all my stuff up in the car. By the way the dog which is mine but he wouldn’t let have him

“I took his phone because I didn’t want him to take the keys and wanted to leave

“He started throwing all my stuff out, I said I just want to leave and I want the dog, (the dog’s) my whole world, I love him so much.

“I took his phone and keys to get my stuff in the car and let me do that, he was like, ‘no’. I said, ‘I’ll give you my phone’, I can’t really remember this part.

“He said, 'will you give me my phone’, I wouldn’t and he pushed me back and got on top of me. He was grabbing me to get his phone and he smashed my arm which doesn’t hurt now but really hurt. I kicked him in the face to get me off. He got my phone and I said, ‘please just left me leave’.

“I can’t remember what happened and he headbutted me and now I’ve got a split lip which is ugly as f****. My sister saw everything and then he turned on her.

“He started threatening me saying my life was over, his life was over, the kids would find out, my career was over. I’m not letting him get away with anything anymore, he’s headbutted me so many times and I won’t put up with it anymore.”

Mr Daw turns to the subject of the dog.

He said: “The dog, the children were very fond of.”

Ms Greville said: “I didn’t think he or the children were that fond of the dog.”

Mr Daw said: “It was Mr Giggs and his son who got the dog.”

Ms Greville said: "The dog was for me… It was during one of these times I found out he had cheated on me and I had left him."

The barrister suggested Giggs wanted to keep the dog because it was a “family dog”.

Ms Greville said: “He knew how much that god meant to me and he was doing it to hurt me.”

Mr Daw suggests Ms Greville’s account of the events on the day of the alleged assault has ”evolved” to make Giggs look worse.

The witness was asked about a CCTV system at Giggs’ house which filmed outside of the house where cars were parked.

It was claimed by Ms Greville Giggs had blocked her car in after arriving at his home.

Mr Daw said she now accepted it was someone else driving the car.

CCTV footage of Giggs arriving back at his home on November 1, 2020, is played to the court.

It shows Giggs walking up to the property followed by a dog. Two other people walk behind him.

Ms Greville said her car was parked in the road and Giggs’ car had been parked to prevent her car from leaving.

Footage is played of Giggs behind a Mercedes car and can be seen opening the boot of the car and removing items including a dog cage.

Mr Daw said: “There doesn’t seem to be anything in the boot.”

He also said there was no footage of Ms Greville stopping Giggs removing her possessions.

Mr Daw said: “There is no such point on the CCTV footage of you doing that.”

Ms Greville said: “No because it wasn’t outside…. In the garage.”

Mr Daw said: “You said Mr Giggs was throwing your stuff out the door.”

Footage is played of Giggs taking bags out of the house

Mr Daw said: “What Mr Giggs was doing was in fact carrying your bags down towards the gate on the basis he was expecting you to leave in an Uber.”

Ms Greville said: “If that’s what he believes.

Mr Daw said Giggs was not drunk that night and there was no point where anything was thrown outside the house.

Ms Greville said: “It was. They were soaking wet, they wouldn’t be wet.”

Mr Daw said: “He wanted you to leave and put the bags outside for them to be picked up.”

Ms Greville said: “He was trying to humiliate me again and not let me go in the car… He’d rather take all my stuff out and put it outside.”

Mr Daw said: “He said he was so keen for you to leave he was going to ask one of the neighbours to call the police.” Footage is played of Giggs walking to a neighbour’s house.

Ms Greville is asked about the events of November 1, 2020.

Mr Daw said: “You went up to the hotel room and started an argument.”

Ms Greville said: “I had this information in my head and it was extremely difficult to keep it all in and exceptionally hard not to say anything. It all just came out, I couldn’t help myself.”

The barrister claims Ms Greville showed him messages of conversations and she said Giggs packed all her things and told her to leave. Mr Daw claimed no unpacking had been done.

Mr Daw said there was a change in Ms Greville’s statement from her being in “Giggs' face” to him packing her bags.

He said: “Every retelling of everything is just an attempt to make things sound worse about Mr Giggs.”

Ms Greville said: “No it’s because I had a clearer memory than on the night when I had been headbutted in the face. I was going through extreme trauma.”

She was asked why she didn’t return to her apartment.

Ms Greville said: “My sister was at Ryan’s house, all my belongings, everything I needed, my dog was at Ryan’s house.”

Mr Daw said: “You knew he would have come home.”

Ms Greville said: “No I thought he would have stayed at the hotel, I didn’t expect him to come home.”

The barrister asked if Ms Greville had drunk a bottle of wine that night. She agreed and Mr Daw suggested it may have “affected her judgement”.

She added: “I knew I wouldn’t have to have sex with him.”

Mr Daw said: “After the coil was removed you continued to have unprotective sex with Mr Giggs didn’t you?

The barrister reads out messages between Giggs and Ms Greville where they refer to workouts. He said: “Those are references to having sex.”

Ms Greville said: “No.”

Mr Daw said: “You were having active, regular and ethusiastic sex with Mr Giggs including after our coil was removed.”

Ms Greville said: “I disagree.”

Mr Daw said: “Do you agree it doesn’t make sense to have a baby with a violent, controlling, coercive individual when you’re about to leave him?”

Ms Greville said: “It doesn’t make sense but that wasn’t the plan.”

Mr Daw said: “If you became pregnant from Mr Giggs you would have received a significant financial settlement and been tied as a couple forever.”

Ms Greville said: “I know I wouldn’t have done that because that’s not what I wanted.”

Mr Daw said: “You have throughout your evidence about coercive and controlling behaviour twisted the truth very carefully to try to implicate him in a crime he didn’t commit.”

Ms Greville said: “I’ve told the truth about everything that happened to me and my interpretation of it.”

The barrister also questions Ms Greville on telling Giggs she had a “bad smear test” after she said “he could tell something was up”.

Mr Daw said: “You’re telling a lie about a lie.”

He reads a message from Greville “Shall I tell you why I’m being weird… I can’t bring myself to say it…. I haven’t told anyone…… Last time I told you something you brushed it off…. “I had a smear test and I have cancerous cells, I have to go to hospital Thursday.”

Giggs said: “OMG.” He adds: “How did you not tell me… I can't believe you didn’t tell me… What did the test say?”

Ms Greville messaged: “High grade dyskaryosis.” Mr Daw said: “That was a lie.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Mr Daw said: “You said you didn’t want to talk about it again until Thursday. ‘This is something I want to deal with on my own’.

“You’re telling Mr Giggs you have cancerous cells in your body, you have to go to hospital Thursday and want to deal with this on your own when the truth was you were having your coil removed.”

Ms Greville said: “I had to get my coil off and I needed an STD test. I was trying to get him off my back and it was the only thing I could think of. It was awful and I regret saying those things but I had to get him off my back.”

The barrister refers to a message sent by Ms Greville to Giggs. It was of a link to Prada boots costing £1,200. She said: “Can your guy at Harrods Pete get these in a size seven?”

Mr Daw turns to Ms Greville’s police interview about her plans to leave Giggs.

She said in her interview she didn’t speak to her friends, which he said was a lie.

He said: “You were speaking to them and going for dog walks.”

Mr Daw asks about the financial aspect of the relationship.

He said: “If you had left at that time you would have left without anything on the financial side because you weren’t married.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Mr Daw said: “And you had got very used to the lifestyle you enjoyed with Mr Giggs

Ms Greville said: “I could have that lifestyle myself, he didn’t give me that lifestyle.”

Mr Daw said: “You were not remotely as wealthy as Mr Giggs.”

Ms Greville said: “No but I could provide for myself, buy nice holidays and buy myself nice things.”

Mr Daw said: “You would sometimes stay in hotels with Mr Giggs that would cost more than some people earn in a year for one night.”

Ms Greville said: “I didn’t stay in any hotels that cost someones’ wage.”

Mr Daw said: “Did you decide you needed to come up with a plan?”

Ms Greville said: “I needed to find a plan to get away from him so he wouldn’t hassle or hound me and to get away with my dog.”

Mr Daw said: “You told your friend Courtney Lang, ‘I’m not walking away with nothing’.”

Ms Greville said: “I was talking about just the dog.”

Mr Daw said: “You said you had your coil out. Your plan was to get pregnant by Mr Giggs.”

Ms Greville said: “No absolutely not.”

Judge Manley and the jury have reentered the courtroom and the trial continues.

Mr Daw says it was in August 2020 when Ms Greville checked Giggs’ phone and found out he had been messaging other women.

Ms Greville messaged Giggs saying: “Can’t help yourself can you?”

“You’ll never see me again.”

“You’re disgusting.”

“Haven’t messaged me all day and have been calling her phone all day.”

“I hope you're happy with yourself.”

The messages ended: "Thanks for wasting my time you pig…. F*** you Ryan, f*** you.”

Mr Daw said: “Your decision to leave was because he was cheating on you , it was nothing to do with coercion or violence it was to do with him cheating on you.”

Ms Greville said: “There are a lot of emails where I say a lot more things, about the control, the coercion and the manipulation.”

Mr Daw said: “Is it true Mr Giggs was flirtatious with women and got attention from women and men because he was well known. It was almost relentless, people wanting to talk to him and take pictures.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Mr Daw said: “As far as women were concerned, he got attention from women and that was common and he would sometimes flirt with them.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Mr Daw said: “It was that combined with the evidence in front of you of him cheating.”

Ms Greville said: “I left that night because of what I had found out but it was the combination of everything else that made me decide to go.”

Ms Greville is asked about a message she sent to Giggs which read: “Thank you for looking after Emma.”

She said: “It was in relation to Emma having an argument and her ex boyfriend for not being nice to her.”

Mr Daw said: “It turned out he had been leaking or possibly selling stories about you and Mr Giggs.

“Why were you thanking Mr Giggs for looking after her.”

Ms Greville said: “I don’t recall exactly why I was thanking him.”

Mr Daw said: “Mr Giggs took a keen interest in your friends and family.”

The witness said he did sometimes.

Mr Daw said: “You saying he was not interest in your dad being ill, that was a nasty lie."

Ms Greville said: “Absolutely not, it’s true.”

Mr Daw said: “You took foreign holidays a lot, you took foreign holidays a lot with Mr Giggs, you took a lot of foreign holiday with your friends, you had a lot of dinners out, went to a lot of parties, did regular trips to exercise places, had a good job and earned good money, went to work every day, had your own apartment in Manchester, and maintained contact with all your friends. He never stopped you from doing what you wanted to do.”

Ms Greville said: “He made it very difficult for me for how I lived my life.”

Mr Daw said: “You remained in control of your own life throughout that relationship.”

Ms Greville said: “Absolutely not, I felt out of control.”

A video is played of Emma Greville filmed by Giggs of them watching television at his house.

Mr Daw said: “Why was it you left your 24-year-old sister alone in the house with him?"

Ms Greville said: “I’m trying to remember if we had the dog or not…. If I said I would be guessing.”

The trial adjourns for an early lunch break and will resume at 2pm.

Mr Daw turns to a number of photographs sent between Giggs and Ms Greville.

He said: “There are a number of photos with you and your friends.”

Ms Grevile said: “Some of these are very old photos.”

In May 2019, there’s a photo of Ms Greville with a friend in Malta, where Giggs owned a timeshare. She disputed Giggs had arranged the accommodation for her.

She was asked if Giggs had stopped her seeing her friends during this period.

Ms Greville said: “Not at that point no.”

Other photos of Ms Greville with friends are shown to the jury, as well as with Giggs on holiday in Ibiza and with a puppy.

Referring to two friends, the witness said: “(Giggs) affected our relationship majorly.”

There are photos of Ms Greville with a friend in August 2020, in Portugal.

Mr Daw called Ms Greville’s claims Giggs was interfering with her relationships a “naked lie”.

Ms Greville said: “No, he was creating really difficult relationships with those people.”

Mr Daw said: “Was it difficult on the beach, in the lift?”

Ms Greville said: “It wasn’t difficult at that time… That was just a holiday and a long weekend.”

She added: “He made those relationships difficult for me to have, he would make things very difficult for me with them.” She breaks down in tears.

Mr Daw said: “The person who made it difficult with Courtney was you, not him.”

Ms Greville said: “If by telling the truth that made it difficult for them, then yes but there were other times.”

She was asked to give an example

The witness said: “He would flirt with Michaela a lot to my face, he asked if that made me jealous which caused an issue, he blocked my friends and before he finished with me through Michaela and then he got angry with Michaela for telling me that and blocked her. That caused issues because she didn’t want to be in the middle.”

The witness is asked about her claims Giggs isolated her and affected her relationship with friends and family.

Mr Daw said: “By October 2020, you had started your business. I am going to suggest four of your most important clients were a direct result of your connections with Ryan.”

Ms Greville said: “I don’t agree with that.”

It was also put to her that she was not stopped from seeing family or friends.

The witness added: “I didn’t want to interact with my friends or tell them things, so that affected how I interacted around my friends because I couldn’t tell them the truth.”

Mr Daw said: “You would frequently spend time with your friends, your sister and close family and Mr Giggs didn’t stop you.”

Ms Greville said: “I didn’t spend a lot of time with my family at all.”

Mr Daw said: “Mr Giggs was more than happy for him to have your sister in the house.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes because it benefited him, she looked after the dog and helped around the house and he liked it.”

Mr Daw refers to Ms Greville making a comment about her and Giggs having arguments about the dishwasher.

Ms Greville said: “He was making me feel I was stupid, that the way I was loading the dishwasher was stupid and it had to be done how he wanted…. I know the difference between an argument and abuse.”

Mr Daw said: “At no time was there any violence, controlling or abusive behaviour on part of Mr Giggs.”

Ms Greville said: “At the end of lockdown, in November, he was very violent and aggressive.”

Mr Daw said: “You suggested lockdown was a period of living hell and there was nothing good about it.”

Ms Greville said: “I felt like I was losing my mind, having panic attacks, it was a horrific time for me, mentally it was a horrendous time for me.”

Mr Daw also asks about Ms Greville’s business.

He said: “In helping you to set your business up he couldn’t have done more to support you and help you succeed.”

Ms Greville said: “That’s not true.”

The barrister asked if Giggs introduced Ms Greville to a major client and if they produced most of the revenue for her business.

Ms Greville said: “No, he didn’t introduce them to me.”

Ms Greville is now asked about the coronavirus lockdown.

Mr Daw said: “Where did you decide to spend lockdown?”

Ms Greville said: “With Ryan, at his house…. Because he asked me to.”

Mr Daw said: “You had never lived together before.”

Ms Greville said: “We were back in the relationship again, back in that cycle, he had promised me things in the past, to have a family, live together and I desperately wanted it to be true despite what he was doing.”

Mr Daw said: “Was it because he had a big house and a huge garden and it would have been less unpleasant than spending lockdown in a flat.”

Ms Greville said: “Both my parents have large houses with big gardens so I could have gone there.

Mr Daw said: “You could have, rather than spending weeks with someone you had described as an abuser.”

He is interrupted by the judge and is asked to ask questions rather than invite comment.

Mr Daw said: “You wouldn’t have done that if he was serial and violent abuser.”

Ms Greville said: “I was insecure he kept promising the world and i believed him, he’s very charming and I stupidly went back again and I’m hugely ashamed of that but I did.”

She breaks down in tears

Mr Daw said: “You said lockdown was hell and he was behaving controlling again.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes he was.”

The court head Giggs children spent a lot of time at the house, and his daughter came to live with him

A video is played of Giggs and Ms Greville exercising together while in lockdown. Another video is played of Giggs and Ms Greville miming to “In Da Club” by 50 Cent.

Mr Daw asks about an incident in Dubai when Giggs called Ms Greville by his ex wife’s name.

The barrister said: “Your gripe with Mr Giggs is clear in the following message, what does it say?

Ms Greville said: “You called me Stacey”.

Mr Daw said: “On the evening there was an argument and you had been out with other people drinking a lot of wine.”

The witness said: “No, it was just us.”

Mr Daw said: “Your true anger towards Mr Giggs was during the course of having a few glasses of Rose he turned to you and called you Stace and corrected himself saying Kate.”

Ms Greville said: “No he called me Stace in the hotel room.”

Mr Daw said: “You were extremely angry about it and that’s what caused the argument.”

Ms Greville said: “No, what caused the argument was him saying I was a liability when I’m drunk.”

Mr Daw said: “Mr Giggs was upset because what was an unfortunate slip of the tongue caused you go to ballistic.”

Ms Greville said: “No that’s not what happened.”

Mr Daw said: “You said ‘What the f*** did you expect me to do’.”

Ms Greville said: “No I was saying that because I had left.”

Mr Daw said: “Mr Giggs said ‘I’m sorry I called you Stacey’.”

“What we won’t see in those messages is any reference to Mr Giggs being violent against you.”

Ms Greville said: “I would never do that because he made me feel it was my fault and if I raised it again I would face the consequences.”

Mr Daw said: “The entire source of your anger was the whole Stacey thing.”

Ms Greville said: “I wasn’t angry I was upset, I go silent when I’m upset and Ryan doesn’t like that.”

The sound has been put back on the video link.

Ms Greville continues to give evidence.

Mr Daw says Giggs continued to support the witness in her personal life and in her career.

He turns to her interview with police.

The barrister said: “You made no mention in an interview or witness statement about that alleged assault in Dubai did you?”

Ms Greville said: “No.”

She was asked why she didn’t mention it

The witness said: “I had to remember everything from the course of our relationship so we’re going to miss out on some details…. I found a photo of it which triggered my memory.

“When you’re in it you’re justifying it in your head… It’s just push and pull in an argument but when I saw the photo I thought ‘No, that’s abusive’.”

Judge Manley has come back into cout but the sound on the court video link has not been put back on.

The court has been notified.

The trial adjourns for a short break and will resume shortly.

Mr Daw refers to messages between Giggs and Ms Greville at the time of the trip to London.

He describes the various messages as “good natured” and “good humoured”.

The day after the alleged incident on December 6.

On the following day, Ms Greville sent a video to Giggs. She sent a message to Giggs while on a train to a wedding in Shrewsbury, saying “OMG dying.”

Mr Daw said: “The reference to you dying was because you had a hangover?”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Giggs sent a message to her saying: “Ropey”.

Mr Daw said: “There’s nothing to suggest he violently assaulted you the night before.”

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

She later messaged Giggs: “Round three, pray for me. And sent him a photo of herself.

Mr Daw said: “It’s because you had been out the night before and you’re going to a wedding and having more to drink.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes that’s what it’s about.”

Mr Daw said: “You say to Mr Giggs ‘Hope you’re feeling better’. The tenure is the thing you’re feeling rough about is you having a hangover.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Giggs responded: “Sorry.” Mr Daw suggested this was because he hadn’t responded for over an hour.

Mr Daw said: “He was doing various television commitments about football. Would you have been at the wedding?”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

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

She messaged Giggs: “Thank you for coming to get me, it’s very lovely of you.”

The witness said: “I needed to be at a work thing with him in Manchester and there were no trains from Shrewsbury…”

Mr Daw said: “Could he have arranged a taxi?”

Ms Greville said: “He felt guilty about what he had done the night before.”

Mr Daw 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 my fault, he made me feel insecure and made me feel I couldn’t have a problem with what happened because it was my fault.”

Mr Daw refers to an alleged incident at the Stafford Hotel in London, in December 2019.

Mr Daw refers 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 didn’t say he kicked you in the back did you?”

Ms Greville said: “I didn’t, if that’s what my statement says I didn’t.”

The barrister was asked to provide context by prosecutor Peter Wright QC.

Mr Daw said: “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.”

Ms Greville said: “Yes.”

Mr Daw said: “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.”

Ms Greville said: “I was giving more detail in this one, it was an overview in the last one.”

Mr Daw 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 said: “No it was 100% what happened.”

Ms Greville was asked about her messaging Giggs complaining about his response time to her messages.

The witness said: “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 said: “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.”

Ms Greville said: “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.”

The barrister refers to a message sent by Ms Greville. It said: “My own f****** boyfriend can’t reply to a message.”

Giggs responded: “WTF I was sorting the kids out.”

Ms Greville messaged: “That stops you replying to say you’re ok for an hour?”

Mr Daw said: “You’re saying you were conditioned by him to act like that?

Ms Greville said: “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”.

Mr Daw says he wants to talk about Ms Greville’s claims Giggs affected her relationships with others.

In December 2019, Giggs messaged her: “Did you fall out with Camma?”

Ms Greville said: “He is Ryan’s best friend Tony Camilleri.”

Giggs messaged back: “Why…”

Ms Greville messaged back: “He started calling and shouting at me for Amelia to do work…”

The court heard Amelia was Mr Kammaleli’s daughter who referred to Giggs as “Uncle Ryan”.

Giggs messaged back: ““F***** bang out of order, he needs to apologise.”

Mr Daw said: “This was Mr Giggs supporting you in an argument with an oldest friend.”

Ms Greville said: “He was two different people, he would say all these words but his actions wouldn’t match his words.”

She said she didn’t say Giggs was “wholly unsupportive” but there was another side to him where he was “unsupportive and undermining”.

Ms Greville said: “There were times he was completely unsupportive, towards the end he was very unsupportive.”

In November 2019, Ms Greville sent a message, saying she was looking at a job with a six figure salary and Giggs messaged her “So I can retire then?”

She responded: “Hey baby no you won’t be retiring because I’ll be working my arse off and you’ll be living your best life.”

Mr Daw said : “He was entirely supportive of plans you wished to pursue.”

Ms Greville said: “At that point yes… When I told him I wanted to leave GG he didn’t like it at all but that was a conversation we had.”