GARY Neville was today dragged into Ryan Giggs’ court case as Whatsapp messages and emails were read to the jury.
His former Manchester United team mate is accused of hounding and blackmailing Kate Greville, 38, over a three-year period of abuse.
Ms Greville told the court how Giggs promised her kids and demanded sex all the time while he was dating eight other women.
She also alleged he once headbutted her and nearly split her lip open after refusing to give her her phone.
Meanwhile, emails dating from early 2019, exchanged between Kate Greville’s old work laptop and Ryan Giggs’ mobile phone, made reference to Gary Neville who was part of a work Whatsapp group with the pair.
Ms Greville said she had blocked Giggs after finding out he was in a relationship with another woman she named as Zara Charles.
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Giggs sent an email with the subject: “WTF!!! Blocking me” after Ms Greville had blocked his calls on WhatsApp.
His follow-up email read: “F****** unblock me now.”
Giggs then said if Ms Greville did not unblock his personal WhatsApp number he would “chase her” on the work WhatsApp group.
She told the court this referred to a work WhatsApp group they were both members of.
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Ms Greville said: “I was scared. He could have sent anything, he wasn’t very rational so he would potentially send something of a private, personal nature. Something that would embarrass me, humiliate me.”
She was then working for GG Hospitality, a company owned by Ryan Giggs and his former Manchester United team-mate Gary Neville.
Peter Wright QC asked: “Who was GG Hospitality?”
Ms Greville said: “It was Ryan and Gary Neville.”
Giggs then text her the name of a male colleague, the court heard.
Ms Greville said: “He was jumping to conclusions of me seeing someone who was a work colleague.”
It was Ryan and Gary Neville.
Kate Greville
The defendant then sent another message: “Private messaging and if you have the f****** cheek to say I’m with [the woman].”
Ms Greville said: “He’s thinking I’m private messaging [the male colleague] about being in a relationship, but it was never in relation to us but we were just work colleagues and there was nothing going on.”
Giggs messaged her: “Are you f***** dating [him], if you are, you’re finished.”
Ms Greville said: “(I thought) he was trying to ruin my career, ruin my job.”
The defendant then messaged her: “I’ll ask on the group who you are dating.”
‘MORTIFIED’
When asked how this made her feel, Ms Greville said: “Mortified, embarrassed, humiliated. My career was so important and he used that all the time.”
Giggs messaged her saying: “Leave it with me, let’s ask Gary and Michaela. Flirting in the work group chat.”
When asked who Gary and Michaela were, Ms Greville said it was Gary Neville and his PA.
Giggs also messaged her: “Do you want me to let you go Kate?” The witness said this was in terms of a personal relationship.
When he later messaged her, she told him “I thought you let me go.”
He replied: “Not a f***** chance, where are you, who you with? You’re beautiful.” and ”Talk to me, don’t be so damned rude.”
Earlier, Ms Greville told how Giggs allegedly headbutted her after a night out.
Ms Greville told how on the afternoon of November 1 she went with Giggs to the Stock Exchange Hotel – part-owned by the defendant and fellow ex-footballer Gary Neville – to meet up with friends including Neville’s personal assistant.
A row broke out over dinner, Ms Greville said, when she told Giggs about a man who had previously asked her out for a drink.
She told the court: “I said to this guy ‘I can’t believe you have asked me out, you have a girlfriend.”
That’s when he came towards me and headbutted me in my face. He just came at me, grabbed me by my shoulders and headbutted me in my face.
Kate Greville
Mr Wright asked what was the response from Giggs. She replied: “It was ‘why didn’t you say you had a boyfriend?’
“He was angry. He kept having a go at me. He wanted me to agree with him. I was not prepared to do that. I stood up for myself.”
Ms Greville said Giggs “stormed out” out of the restaurant and up to their hotel room where they had planned to stay the night.
She told her sister, who was dog-sitting for her at the time, to pack up their things, but said Giggs unloaded her belongings in bin bags from her car at the front of the house.
The pair then grappled over Ms Greville’s phone in the hallway of the house and inside an adjacent utility room.
Ms Greville continued: “He pushed me backwards, I ended up being on my back in the utility room. I was on my back on the floor with my phone in my hand.
“Ryan was on top of me. He’s pinning me down on the floor and trying to reach for the phone in my hand.
“I was trying to do everything I could to get him off me. I was shouting my sister for help: ‘Get him off me’.”
She said her sister Emma grabbed Giggs by the waist to pull him off but he pushed his arm back to try to get her off him and it is claimed he had hit her in the jaw.
Giggs then managed to grab Ms Greville’s phone, pushing her head into the floor as he got off her, she said.
She said Giggs told her he had called the police and was going to tell the officers Ms Greville had attacked him and was a “psycho.”
Of the alleged headbutt she claimed Ryan Giggs then carried out, she added: “I said I’m glad the police are coming because you attacked me and I will tell them what happened.
“That’s when he came towards me and headbutted me in my face. He just came at me, grabbed me by my shoulders and headbutted me in my face.
“I said, ‘I can’t believe you have just done that’. I was in shock. I fell backwards, my lip instantly swelled so I put my hands to my mouth. I could taste the blood.
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“I was just in shock. All the other times he had hurt me, this was different. This was with real intent. He really wanted to hurt me.”
Ms Greville will continue to give evidence on Wednesday.
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