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RYAN Giggs threw a laptop bag at his ex’s head and kicked her so hard she fell off the bed, a court heard today.The ex-Man Utd star is accused of headbutting Kate Greville over a three-year reign of terror.
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Giggs, 48, also allegedly used controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate, 36, and attacked her younger sister Emma at his £1.7million mansion.
Kate is continuing her evidence at Manchester Crown Court today on the forth day of the trial.
She claimed how Giggs attacked her at the swanky Stafford Hotel in London in December 2019.
In a witness statement, Kate said the footballer “threw a bag at my head with a laptop in it which caused my head to swell and bruise”.
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She also claimed Giggs booted her out the bed and threw her out the hotel room naked in the alleged attack, which led to the ex-midfielder being arrested.
During cross examination, Giggs’ barrister Chris Daw QC asked if Kate was “trying to make everything sound as bad as it could”.
She replied: “No it was 100 per cent what happened.”
He also quizzed the PR exec over texts the pair exchanged the next day about how hungover they were.
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Kate also thanked Giggs for coming to pick her up, saying it was “very lovely” of him.
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.”
Kate replied: “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.”
She also told how living with Giggs in lockdown was “utter hell” but claimed at that point she was in a “cycle of abuse”.
In her previous evidence, Kate told how she became a “slave to his every need and every demand”.
She added: “He made me feel like I had to do what he said, otherwise there were consequences.”
Kate said she was a “vulnerable” position when their relationship started and claimed Giggs “played on it”.
She also told jurors the footballer “isolated me from certain people” and “interfered with my ability to interact with my family”.
In another alleged violent incident in Dubai in September 2017, Kate claimed she was dragged naked from their hotel bed and pulled across the lounge suite when she said something he “didn’t like”.
She said she was left with a bruise on her arm when she was forced to retrieve her belongings from the hotel corridor naked.
But Mr Daw said the allegations were “lies” and maintained the mark was a “sex injury”.
He added: “It was a bruise caused by rough sex that the two of you enjoyed a lot.”
Kate said: “No, he grabbed me by my wrist and caused bruising.”
‘ROUGH SEX TEXTS’
The jury were read WhatsApp messages between the pair that were exchanged over a five day period following the alleged Dubai incident.
Mr Daw read one message from the time, in which Kate wrote: “I want you so badly rough.”
Giggs replied: “Do you? I’m scared of hurting you.”
Kate responded: “I want it to hurt a little. Not in a weird way. I just want you to shock and surprise me.”
Giggs told her “it’s a fine line”, to which Kate said: “We will just have to have fun finding that line then.”
The midfielder then sent a photograph of a sex toy, a paddle, in an Agent Provocateur box.
Kate asked: “What is that? Xx.”
Giggs replied: “You asked me to be a bit more assertive.”
She wrote: “I’m intrigued. When are you using this?”
He then sent a photo of a pair of handcuffs and said: “Just after you have used this.”
Kate wrote back: “Amazing,” and Giggs replied: “They f***ing are.”
She told jurors on Tuesday how she first had sex with Giggs in December 2014 while on a work event at a hotel in London and she left her husband the following February.
Kate claims the ex-Wales international grabbed her by the shoulders and headbutted her in November 2020 after she confronted him about his serial cheating.
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Giggs denies using controlling and coercive behaviour between August 2017 and November 2020, assault, causing actual bodily harm and common assault relating to Emma.
The trial continues.
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RYAN Giggs’ ex-girlfriend felt like a “slave to his every need and demand”, she told a court today. Kate Greville said the former Manchester United star made her feel like she had to do what he said “otherwise there were consequences”.
Ryan Giggs arrives at Manchester Crown Court where he is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour and assaultCredit: PA
The former Manchester United star’s ex-girlfriend Kate Greville
Giving evidence on day three on his assault and coercive behaviour trial at Manchester Crown Court, Kate told Chris Daw QC, cross-examining: “I was in a vulnerable position and he played on it.
“When Ryan said do something, I would do it.
“There was resistance sometimes but he made me feel like I had to do what he said, otherwise there would be consequences.”
Giggs, 48, denies using controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate, 36, between August 2017 and November 2020.
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He also denies assaulting her, causing actual bodily harm and the common assault of her younger sister.
Yesterday, Kate broke down in tears as she told how the former Manchester United star “came at me from nowhere and headbutted me in the face”.
Describing the ordeal in front of the footballer, the 38-year-old said: “I was in shock. I fell backwards, my lip instantly swelled.
“I put my hands over my mouth and I could taste the blood.”
The court also heard how Giggs wanted to “have sex all the time”, despite sleeping with eight other women during their relationship.
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He also allegedly threw a laptop at her head during a hotel row over his cheating.
And Kate said she felt like she was the former Wales boss’ “housemaid” as he “took the p***” out of the way she loaded the dishwasher and made the bed.
On the night of the alleged attack on November 1, 2020, Giggs and Kate had been with pals at Manchester’s Stock Exchange hotel.
It is said a row started as Giggs, 48, became “very angry” when Kate failed to refer to him as her “boyfriend”.
Giving evidence while being questioned by Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, she said he stormed off.
She added: “He said he was finished with me and didn’t want anything to do with me any more.
“I knew everything he had been doing and I had the proof for the first time ever.
“I was upset at that point so I blurted it out.”
She claimed Giggs tried to deny cheating but was “very drunk and very angry”.
‘HE DELIBERATELY WANTED TO HURT ME’
Kate said she called an Uber and messaged her sister Emma, who was dog-sitting their golden retriever puppy Mac at Giggs’ home, to pack her things.
At the £1.7million property in Worsley, Greater Manchester, they started putting items in bin liners, but Giggs arrived and allegedly started emptying everything.
Inside the house Kate said she took his phone as a “bargaining chip”, adding: “I was really upset and I said, ‘please Ryan just let me go please’.
“I hadn’t seen him that angry before.”
Kate said he pushed her backwards and she ended up “flat on my back with him on top of me”.
She wept as she told the jury she screamed for her sister to help.
The scuffle then moved to the kitchen, where it is alleged Giggs headbutted her.
Kate said: “All the other times that he’d hurt me, this was different.
“This was intent, he deliberately wanted to hurt me.”
She claimed Giggs begged her not to report him to police, who had been called by her sister.
She said: “He said, ‘I need you to think about this, Kate. This will ruin me and it will ruin you.
“Think about my job, think about my kids, think about my career’.
“I told him, ‘well you shouldn’t have done it then’.”
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Giggs denies causing Kate actual bodily harm and engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour between August 31, 2017, and November 2, 2020, and attacking her sister on November 1, 2020.
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RYAN Giggs treated his ex-girlfriend “like a maid” and “demanded sex” every other day, a court heard today.The former Manchester United star is accused of hounding and blackmailing Kate Greville, 38, over a three-year period of abuse.
Giggs with ex-girlfriend Kate Greville
Artist’s impression of Giggs watching the police interview of his exCredit: Getty
Kate claims her ex bombarded her with sexual messagesCredit: Refer to Caption
Kate said in a police statement, which was read out today at Manchester Crown Court: “He’d want to have sex all the time. He didn’t force himself on me but he’d use sex to get to me.
“He’d send me really sexual messages. When we weren’t speaking he’d send sexual messages or pictures.
“I’d constantly get abusive messages. It was a cycle of abuse and then silence.
“He would make me feel like he was threatening my job. I was so worried he was going to ruin my career.

“Then I’d found out he’d been in a relationship the whole time.
“He came over and had sex. I felt used the whole time. He’d want sex every other day. He was having sex with a totally different girl.”
In the statement she went on to claim that Giggs would constantly “put her down” and critcise her.
She said he would “take the p**s” about “the way I loaded the dishwasher was wrong” or that “the way I made the bed was wrong”.She said: “It was like I was a housemaid, I was his staff member.”
Kate also relived the “humiliating” moment Giggs allegedly kicked her out of her hotel room naked and shoved her to the floor in a row over him flirting with other women.
The court heard how the former Wales boss “flipped” during a night out before the terrifying attack at the five-star London Stafford – one of a string of assaults alleged to have taken place over almost three years.
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Kate said the pair were in a club when she asked him who he was messaging.
He claimed it was his daughter and they both went back to their hotel before he allegedly grabbed Kate by her arm.
Giggs is accused of then “pushing” his ex to the floor, grabbing her belongings and throwing them into the hall.
He subsequently slammed the door in her face and refused to let her back in, a jury heard.
Kate said: “I was naked and all my stuff was in the middle of the corridor.
“It was humiliating. I had to get back in with like a towel round me.”
Giggs has been charged with causing Kate actual bodily harm and engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour between August 31, 2017, and November 2, 2020 – claims he has denied.
He has also denied attacking her sister at his £1.7million home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on November 1, 2020.
‘THREE YEARS OF ABUSE’
Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday heard Giggs threatened to send emails to Kate’s friends and employers about her sexual behaviour, as well as making unwanted calls when she tried to break off the relationship.
He also allegedly turned up unannounced and uninvited at her home, workplace and gym, and chucked her belongings out of his house when she asked him about his relationships with other women.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Peter Wright QC yesterday said Giggs was “idolised by his adoring fans” and described his skills on the pitch as “abundant and a thing of beauty”.
But he told the jury that behind closed doors was a “much uglier and more sinister side to his character”.
“This was a private life that involved a litany of abuse, both physical and psychological, of a woman he professed to love,” he said.
“A woman who, in reality, was, if the evidence is to be believed, treated in a way that cannot be excused or overlooked, by either an adoring public, or the law.
“This is a story of control and coercion of a woman who thought she was loved and respected, sadly the reality was very different.”
Giggs, who is on conditional bail and must not contact Kate or Emma, won 64 caps for Wales and had a glittering playing career with Man Utd, winning 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League trophies, four FA Cups and three League Cups.
He is also a co-owner of League Two side Salford City.
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He stepped down as Wales manager last month after going on leave when he was charged in November 2020.
The footballer said he did not want the country’s preparations for this year’s World Cup in Qatar to be “affected, destabilised or jeopardised in any way by the continued interest around this case”.
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RYAN Giggs promised his ex-girlfriend kids and demanded sex all the time while he was dating eight other women, a court heard today. Kate Greville told detectives she thought the former Manchester United ace was her “soulmate” and he had vowed to start a family with her – but he had actually been unfaithful for years.
Ryan Giggs arrives at Manchester Crown Court on August 9Credit: Getty
Kate Greville has accused the former footballer of abuse and assaultCredit: Refer to Caption
An artist’s impression of Giggs watching the police interview of his ex in courtCredit: SWNS
In a police statement which was read out to a jury, Kate said: “He would tell me he was somewhere and it didn’t add up.”
By December 2018 Kate claims she “knew” he was having an affair.
Manchester Crown Court heard how Kate received an anonymous email saying, “just so you know, Ryan’s been in another relationship with another girl for a year”.
When she confronted him, he allegedly told her she was “weak” and he was “always being accused” before adding: “If you’re not strong enough then you need to get out, don’t be so pathetic.”
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Her suspicions grew while on a Christmas night out when she spotted the former Wales boss chatting to another woman.
Kate said Giggs claimed they were “just friends” but a pal told her they were in a relationship.
“He started screaming saying ‘I don’t like it when you talk to anybody about me’,” Kate said.
“He then blocked me. I was like, ‘what the hell’s going on?’, but then I’d believe him.
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“It was like this draw. He’d constantly tell me it’s all me, that I’m psycho, that I needed to trust him.” 
Kate told how, despite Giggs “flipping out” and becoming aggressive, she believed he was her “soulmate and best friend”.
She claims the footballer promised her he’d left his wife Stacey but she later discovered: “He’d been living with her the whole time.”
He even called Kate by his ex’s name “all the time”, which she described as “the ultimate insult”.
But he still regularly told her how he wanted a family – and always got her to come back to him by saying he wanted them to have kids, she alleges.
Kate also told cops how she received a naked picture of Giggs from an anonymous sender, who messaged saying: “I’ve found this on my wife’s phone.”
When she challenged him, he insisted it was all lies, she said.
The pair “sorted things out” and went to Dubai – but that was when Kate claims she discovered the truth.
“I knew he was in a relationship with two other girls, I’d just been so naïve to it all” she said.
I’d just been so naïve to it all. Kate Greville
“This Zara started messaging me and asked to follow me on Instagram. 
“I knew he’d been seeing her so I split up with him.
“When I was in it I still felt like he was my world. I desperately wanted to have a family, to move in with him, but the actual reality was very different.”
She claimed to know of a total of eight women he was having affairs with during their relationship.
In the police interview she said Giggs constantly denied he was cheating on her but she “needed to know the truth” so she checked 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.”
But during this time, Giggs allegedly still wanted to have sex with Kate “every other day” and treated her “like his housemaid”.
She said: “He’d want to have sex all the time. He didn’t force himself on me but he’d use sex to get me.”
She added that he would “take the p***” out of the way she loaded the dishwasher and told her that the way she made the bed was wrong.
“It was like I was a housemaid, I was his staff member,” she said.
‘HUMILIATING’
One one occasion, in a row over another woman, she recalled how he threw her out of a hotel suite, leaving her naked in the hallway with her belongings strewn on the floor.
Kate said the pair were in a club when she asked him who he was messaging.
He claimed it was his daughter and they both went back to their hotel before he allegedly grabbed Kate by her arm.
Giggs is accused of then “pushing” his ex to the floor, grabbing her belongings and throwing them into the hall.
He subsequently slammed the door in her face and refused to let her back in, a jury heard.
Kate said: “I was naked and all my stuff was in the middle of the corridor.
“It was humiliating. I had to get back in with like a towel round me.”
She also described a similar incident at a hotel in Dubai where Giggs allegedly grabbed her bag to stop her from leaving to go to the airport.
“He pulled on my arm really hard and I fell forward on my knee,” she said, before adding that he eventually let her go and she went to a friend’s house rather than taking the planned flight back to Manchester together.
‘BLACKMAIL’
Earlier, the court heard how Giggs allegedly bombarded Kate with sexual messages and threatened to publicly share X-rated videos of the pair if she didn’t reply.
Over an almost three-year period, the sports star sent streams of abusive texts and blackmailed the PR executive, she alleges.
Kate said: “He wouldn’t leave me alone.
“He sent me an email once with blackmail 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 is also accused of threatening to send emails to Kate’s friends and employers about her sexual behaviour, as well as making unwanted calls when she tried to break off the relationship.
He also allegedly turned up unannounced and uninvited at her home, workplace and gym, and chucked her belongings out of his house when she asked him about his relationships with other women.
Giggs has been charged with causing Kate actual bodily harm and engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour between August 31, 2017, and November 2, 2020 – claims he has denied.
He has also denied attacking her sister at his £1.7million home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on November 1, 2020.
Giggs, who is on conditional bail and must not contact Kate or Emma, won 64 caps for Wales and had a glittering playing career with Man Utd, winning 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League trophies, four FA Cups and three League Cups.
He is also a co-owner of League Two side Salford City.
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He stepped down as Wales manager last month after going on leave when he was charged in November 2020.
The footballer said he did not want the country’s preparations for this year’s World Cup in Qatar to be “affected, destabilised or jeopardised in any way by the continued interest around this case”.
Ryan Giggs’ ex-wife Stacey pitch-side at Old Trafford in 2011Credit: Reuters
Giggs is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his former partner KateCredit: PA
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RYAN Giggs bombarded his ex-girlfriend with sexual messages and threatened to publicly share X-rated videos of the pair if she didn’t reply, a court heard today.The former Manchester United star is accused of hounding and blackmailing Kate Greville, 38, over a three-year period of abuse.
Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs arrives at Manchester Crown Court with his legal teamCredit: Getty
Giggs with ex-girlfriend Kate Greville
Kate claims her ex bombarded her with sexual messagesCredit: Tim Stewart
Kate said in a police statement, which was read out at Manchester Crown Court: “He wouldn’t leave me alone.
“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 and it was a video of what we’d done.
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“He’d say, ‘I’m going to send these messages to people if you don’t reply’.
“He’d send me really sexual messages, I got bombarded.”
Kate also relived the “humiliating” moment Giggs allegedly kicked her out of her hotel room naked and shoved her to the floor in a row over him flirting with other women.
The court heard how the former Wales boss “flipped” during a night out before the terrifying attack at the five-star London Stafford – one of a string of assaults alleged to have taken place over almost three years.
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Kate said the pair were in a club when she asked him who he was messaging.
He claimed it was his daughter and they both went back to their hotel before he allegedly grabbed Kate by her arm.
Giggs is accused of then “pushing” his ex to the floor, grabbing her belongings and throwing them into the hall.
He subsequently slammed the door in her face and refused to let her back in, a jury heard.
Kate said: “I was naked and all my stuff was in the middle of the corridor.
“It was humiliating. I had to get back in with like a towel round me.”
Giggs has been charged with causing Kate actual bodily harm and engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour between August 31, 2017, and November 2, 2020 – claims he has denied.
He has also denied attacking her sister at his £1.7million home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on November 1, 2020.
‘THREE YEARS OF ABUSE’
Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday heard Giggs threatened to send emails to Kate’s friends and employers about her sexual behaviour, as well as making unwanted calls when she tried to break off the relationship.
He also allegedly turned up unannounced and uninvited at her home, workplace and gym, and chucked her belongings out of his house when she asked him about his relationships with other women.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Peter Wright QC yesterday said Giggs was “idolised by his adoring fans” and described his skills on the pitch as “abundant and a thing of beauty”.
But he told the jury that behind closed doors was a “much uglier and more sinister side to his character”.
“This was a private life that involved a litany of abuse, both physical and psychological, of a woman he professed to love,” he said.
“A woman who, in reality, was, if the evidence is to be believed, treated in a way that cannot be excused or overlooked, by either an adoring public, or the law.
“This is a story of control and coercion of a woman who thought she was loved and respected, sadly the reality was very different.”
Giggs, who is on conditional bail and must not contact Kate or Emma, won 64 caps for Wales and had a glittering playing career with Man Utd, winning 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League trophies, four FA Cups and three League Cups.
He is also a co-owner of League Two side Salford City.
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He stepped down as Wales manager last month after going on leave when he was charged in November 2020.
The footballer said he did not want the country’s preparations for this year’s World Cup in Qatar to be “affected, destabilised or jeopardised in any way by the continued interest around this case”.
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