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| Ryan Giggs' made ex-girlfriend feel to blame for attack - court | |
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| Ryan Giggs' trial is expected to last two weeks | Ryan Giggs' trial is expected to last two weeks |
| Ryan Giggs' ex-girlfriend was made to feel that a violent attack on her by him in a London hotel room had been her fault, a court has heard. | Ryan Giggs' ex-girlfriend was made to feel that a violent attack on her by him in a London hotel room had been her fault, a court has heard. |
| The former Manchester United star and Wales manager, 48, is on trial accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour and assaulting Kate Greville. | The former Manchester United star and Wales manager, 48, is on trial accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour and assaulting Kate Greville. |
| He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville, causing her actual bodily harm, and common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville, | He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville, causing her actual bodily harm, and common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville, |
| He denies all the charges. | He denies all the charges. |
| Ms Greville was responding to Mr Giggs' defence barrister, Chris Daw QC, after he read a series of text messages between the former couple, the day after the alleged incident in which she said he kicked her in the back out of bed, threw a laptop bag at her head and threw her naked out of a hotel room. | Ms Greville was responding to Mr Giggs' defence barrister, Chris Daw QC, after he read a series of text messages between the former couple, the day after the alleged incident in which she said he kicked her in the back out of bed, threw a laptop bag at her head and threw her naked out of a hotel room. |
| She agreed the messages were "good humoured" and referred jokingly to their hangovers, following an event they had both attended in London the evening before. | |
| I was slave to Giggs' demands, ex tells court | I was slave to Giggs' demands, ex tells court |
| Giggs threw ex out of hotel room naked, court told | Giggs threw ex out of hotel room naked, court told |
| Ryan Giggs headbutted ex-girlfriend - court hears | Ryan Giggs headbutted ex-girlfriend - court hears |
| Mr Daw said Mr Giggs' version of events was that the pair had been at a work function and Ms Greville accused him of flirting with a woman he had been paired with for a crazy golf competition. | |
| She denied she tried to "wind him up" by flirting with another man at a club later on. | |
| Mr Daw said that the next morning you said to him: "I was so drunk I don't remember much about that night." | |
| Ms Greville told the court: "While we were at breakfast I went to touch my head and my head was hurting, I said: 'Did you throw a bag at me last night?' and he said: 'Yes, but you wound me up that much you made me do it'." | |
| When Mr Daw said this was "all just lies," she replied: "No, absolutely not." | |
| Ms Greville also told the court Mr Giggs "made me feel like it was my fault". | |
| Ryan Giggs' football career ended with him as the most decorated player in the Premier League era, with 34 trophies | |
| The court previously heard that Mr Giggs had "deliberately headbutted" his ex-girlfriend at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, and his private life involved a "litany of abuse, both physical and psychological". | The court previously heard that Mr Giggs had "deliberately headbutted" his ex-girlfriend at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, and his private life involved a "litany of abuse, both physical and psychological". |
| Ms Greville was also asked why she had not mentioned being kicked in the back in her original statement to the police, only giving that detail during a recorded interview a few weeks later. | |
| Mr Daw asked if she was "just trying to make everything sound as bad as you could?" | |
| But Ms Greville said she had gone into more detail in the interview than she had in her statement. | But Ms Greville said she had gone into more detail in the interview than she had in her statement. |
| "That's exactly how it happened," she said. | "That's exactly how it happened," she said. |
| Ryan Giggs watched as Kate Greville's police interview was played for the jury | |
| She was also read a series of messages by her to Mr Giggs in which she became increasingly impatient that he was not replying quickly enough. | |
| Ms Greville said she had been "conditioned" by Mr Giggs because he expected messages to be responded to "within seconds". | |
| She was also read examples of messages between the couple where Mr Giggs appeared to be showing her support and encouragement in her job. | |
| On one occasion, he took her side in a dispute with his best friend, whose daughter was working with Ms Greville. | |
| Mr Daw said: "You said he was undermining of your career ambitions?" | |
| Ms Greville replied that "on one hand he could be supportive and I felt that, on the other hand, he would be undermining, he would pepper the niceness with the horribleness and the other way around". | |
| The trial continues. |