Giggs' lawyer says ex-girlfriend’s claims are 'complete lies' 

Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs’ lawyer has accused ex-partner Kate Greville of telling “a complete pack of lies” about the cause of bruising from an alleged assault committed by the former Manchester United star, with the defence claiming it was the result of “rough sex.”

PR executive  Greville, under cross-examination from defence counsel Chris Daw QC, burst into tears on the witness stand as she responded to questions over the alleged incident in a Dubai hotel room in 2017.

Giggs, 48, is accused of assaulting Greville and her younger sister, Emma Greville, on November 1, 2020, with a further charge relating to controlling and coercive behaviour towards Kate Greville between 2017 and November 2020.

He denies all charges.

Greville, 36, told the court that she was “dragged naked” out of the Dubai room in 2017 and into the corridor following an argument after she became suspicious of Giggs messaging another woman.

But Daw claimed that Giggs was messaging his daughter and asked Greville about bruising she received in the alleged assault. Referring to documented historic messages provided to the jury, Daw said that Greville showed her business partner Elsa Roodt the bruising and in a later message said that it was a result of “rough sex.”

Asked why she did not mention an assault to Roodt, Greville replied: “Because I was embarrassed and I didn’t want to admit it.”

Daw said: “That’s a complete lie isn’t it, it was a bruise caused by rough sex, the kind of which you both enjoyed a lot.”

The witness later sent a message to Giggs saying “My sex bruise is coming out nice too.”

The defending barrister then referred to a photograph sent by Greville of herself in front of a mirror to Giggs days after the alleged assault.

“Can we see any sign of bruising?” Daw asked. Ms Greville replied: “No but that’s not a clear photograph.”

Daw said: “The idea of it being a sex bruise as a ruse is ridiculous. The truth is you did from time to time get bruises from sex.” Greville said she could not recall.

Daw then read out a series of messages between the pair, in which Greville messaged Giggs: “I want you so badly, rough.” He replied: "Do you? I’m scared of hurting you.”

Greville then wrote: “I want it to hurt a little, not in a weird way. I just want you to shock and surprise me.” In response Giggs replied: “It’s a fine line."

Greville said: "Well, we’ll just have to have fun finding that line then.

Earlier  Greville claimed that she was “a slave to his every need and every demand” and revealed that she is too busy to pay attention to media coverage of the trial - because she now has a 12-week-old baby to care for.

Speaking behind a screen in court,  Greville said: “If Ryan said do something, I would do it. He made me feel like I had to do everything he said or there would be consequences."

When asked about an alleged incident in Dubai in 2017, when  Greville, 36, claims she was “dragged naked” out of a hotel room and into the corridor following an argument,

 Greville, who said she has a keen interest in psychology and had read How to win friends and influence people , told the court that she had researched Giggs’ behaviour and believed that he had a "narcissistic personality disorder, narcissistic abuse." She added: "What I was experiencing was very similar, it was exactly the same to that."

Asked by  Daw if Giggs was regularly violent towards her, Ms Greville replied: "It wasn't every occasion he used violence. But he was aggressive regularly. It wasn't consistent violence - but there were times in our relationship when he was violent."

Describing the start of her relationship with Giggs in 2014, Greville said: "I was vulnerable and I was in a vulnerable position and he played on that." 

Greville told the court that both Giggs and  Greville were in unhappy marriages when they first met and "to begin with" he was kind and loving her towards her.

But during their relationship, Greville said that Giggs "damaged relationships with my friends”, “isolated me from certain people" and “interfered with elements” of her life.

"On the whole over a four-year period was he nice? Overall, yes, with interjections of abuse and being awful towards me. But towards the end of the relationship, he was pretty much relentlessly awful."

Greville said that she would “absolutely not" be seeking any compensation following the case