Ryan Giggs 'threw a laptop at his girlfriend's head', threatened to share sex videos if she didn't reply to messages and 'dragged' her naked through hotel
- Ryan Giggs, 48, is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour against ex-girlfriend Kate Greville
- He is also charged with common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville, at home in Worsley, Manchester
- The former Manchester United footballer has pleaded not guilty to all charges at Minshull Street Crown Court
- Ms Greville's 105 minute interview with police was played in full to the jury on day 2 of his trial today
- She described how they had an affair and fell in love - but she then claimed he became abusive towards her
- Giggs called a 'whore', said she slept with other men and 'flipped' when she called him cheat, she claimed
- Kate also claims she was twice thrown out of hotel rooms naked in rows over his contact with other women
Kate Greville broke down in a police interview where she described how Ryan Giggs twice 'dragged' her out of a hotel room and dumped her in the corridor naked in rows over him texting and flirting with women - including one occasion where he allegedly kicked her in the back and threw a laptop at her head, a court heard yesterday.
The former Manchester United star, 48, was in the dock at Minshull Street Court where he is accused of controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville and her sister Emma. He denied all charges.
Today the court was played Ms Greville's 105 minute interview with detectives in November 2020 after he allegedly headbutted her at his £1.7million.
She described how they started having an affair having bonded over their unhappy marriages. They were 'soul mates' and 'best friends' when they first got together, she claimed, but the three-year relationship would later become 'toxic' and 'coercive'.
Ms Greville also said: 'He wouldn't leave me alone, there was never a time when he didn't want to have sex'.
She alleged that in a London hotel room Giggs once 'kicked me in the back so hard that I flew off the bed and landed on the floor'. She then claims he 'dragged' her while naked into the suite area of the room.
'He got my bag with my laptop and threw it at my head', she told detectives, alleging that Giggs then locked her out of the hotel room naked, before letting her back in about 10 minutes later before having sex.
Ms Greville told police it happened when she accused Giggs of flirting with other women in her presence. She said: 'I don't know whether he did it to make me jealous. He would completely ignore me and he would speak to everybody else. He would also flirt with my friends'.
She claimed he told her that he would ask whether it 'bothered' her when she flirted with them. Later she challenged him and claimed that Giggs told her it was 'over' and that she should apologise.
'I ended up saying sorry because he made me feel that bad,' she said.
After challenging him about the alleged back throwing, she claimed Giggs replied: 'He was like 'yeah, because you accused me of flirting'.
'He didn't say you deserve it, but you made me do it. And then I felt like it was my fault'.
Recalling a row when they were staying in an Abu Dhabi hotel, she said: 'I asked him 'are you messaging a girl?' She said Giggs threw her out the room while she was naked and said: 'He flipped, went right up to my face and said 'how f***ing dare you, it's my daughter. We're done, we're over'.'
'He grabbed me by my wrist, so hard, literally dragged me to the lounge and dragged me off the floor. He threw all of my stuff, all of my make-up in the corridor and shut the door and wouldn't let me in', she said.
The police interview began with Ms Greville describing how she had met Giggs in 2013 when she was working for a PR firm, in which Giggs was one of their clients.
They had an affair while she was married and Giggs was still wed to wife Stacey. Their relationship began after her mother asked her to get a shirt signed, she said.
Ms Greville told police she left her husband after falling in love with her 'soulmate' and 'best friend' Giggs before 'red flags' emerged and he began calling her a 'whore' and accused her of 'f***ing someone else' if she didn't see him.
She said Giggs made her feel 'paranoid' and 'like a psycho' when she confronted him over repeated affairs, claiming at one point he had two other girlfriends he was seeing behind her back.
On one occasion she confronted him and he called her 'weak' for believing it. And as the relationship went on she alleged he bombarded her with sexual messages and photos and then threatened to publicly share explicit videos of them together.
She said: 'He'd come to my house in the morning, we'd have sex, it felt like he was just using me for sex. He wouldn't leave me alone, there was never a time when he didn't want to have sex. He'd come round to mine to have sex, then flew to Barcelona with a different girl.
'One minute he would be like, 'you're abusive, this is never going to work', and then he'd be sending me naughty pictures.
'If I didn't reply to him, I'd get a lot of abusive messages. He sent me an email once with blackmail [as the subject line] and it was a video of what we'd done. He'd say: 'I'm going to send these messages to people if you don't reply'.'
Giggs also 'did this gaslighting thing' that was 'very subtle' and 'constantly criticised' her, including how she loaded the dishwasher and how she made the bed, she told police, adding: 'It was like I was a housemaid, I was his staff member'.
On Day 2 of evidence at Ryan Giggs' trial, the court heard evidence from his former lover Kate Greville, who said:
- Ryan Giggs had 'full-on relationships' with eight women during his time together with ex-girlfriend Kate Greville, the court heard;
- Ms Greville told detectives it was 'almost like was he was two people' during their relationship. She told police that she thought he was 'a best friend, a soul mate' who saved her from her marriage. Their affair began after her mother asked her to get a shirt signed;
- But the PR woman who met him through work said she saw early 'red flags', including harassing her via text if she failed to reply with ten minutes. She claimed he also became angry if she asked if he was seeing other women;
- In her police interview in 2020 she has told how the former football star 'dragged' her to the floor naked in Abu Dhabi after she accused him of texting another woman. 'He grabbed me by my wrist, so hard, literally dragged me to the lounge and dragged me of the floor. He threw all of my stuff, all of my make-up in the corridor and shut the door and wouldn't let me in';
- She also claimed that there was a similar incident in London when she was also thrown out of a hotel room naked when she accused him of flirting. She said Giggs 'kicked me in the back so hard that I flew off the bed and landed on the floor. He got my bag with my laptop and threw it at my head'.
- Ms Greville also said Giggs had walked out on her in a Dubai restaurant after she told him to come off his phone. The next day she said she received an email from an anonymous man who sent her a naked picture of Mr Giggs he had found on his wife's mobile;
- On one occasion she was messaged by another woman saying she was in a relationship with Giggs, she told police;
- Ms Greville said he 'always wanted sex' and would bombard her with lewd messages. She said: 'If I didn't reply to him, I'd get a lot of abusive messages. He sent me an email once with blackmail [in the subject] 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'.'
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