- Day 1 - Mr Giggs 'headbutted girlfriend after cheating'
- Day 2 - Mr Giggs 'had eight affairs behind Kate Greville's back'
- Day 3 - What Ms Greville decided after reading psychology book
- Day 4 - Ms Greville 'lied about having cancerous cells'
- Day 5 - Moment 999 operator realises Mr Giggs is headbutt suspect
- Day 6 - Sister claims Mr Giggs threatened to headbutt her next
Ryan Giggs admitted he was a love cheat and that he had been unfaithful to every woman he had ever been with as he gave evidence on the seventh day of his trial.
For six-and-a-half days, the Manchester United great has sat in the dock listening intently to all the evidence being presented by the Crown Prosecution Service.
Then, at 2.36pm today, his barrister Chris Daw QC told the judge: “I’d like to call, with your permission, your Honour, Ryan Joseph Giggs”.
The first question was about Mr Giggs's reputation as a "love cheat"- and the 48-year-old told the packed courtroom that the label was justified because he had never managed to remain faithful to any woman.
Mr Giggs told Manchester Crown Court his life “changed” from 17 onwards when he started “getting noticed in the street”.
As his career developed, he told the jury he started getting more attention from women and the court heard how he "enthusiastically embraced" this on Saturday nights out in Manchester.
Mr Giggs told the jury he was instantly attracted to Ms Greville, 36, who was appointed as his contact for a PR company that was dealing with his hospitality business venture with former Manchester United teammate Gary Neville.
Mr Daw QC said: "She was describing you ‘looking at you and using her name’ - the implication being you were trying to use some mind tricks is the gist. Is that true?"
Mr Giggs responded: "It’s true. I was staring at her and I call everyone by their first name.”
They first slept together in a London hotel room during a work trip, the court was told, and at the time both were still married to other people.
Ms Greville ended her marriage, but Mr Giggs remained living with his now ex-wife and their children.
Mr Giggs 'wanted to have his cake and eat it'
Mr Giggs admitted he "wanted to have his cake and eat it" in terms of maintaining a family life and being with someone else and eventually he left the family home and moved in with his mother, then lived in a hotel.
Ms Greville moved to Abu Dhabi to pursue a work opportunity in 2016, the court was told, but Mr Giggs visited between 10 and 15 times during the 15 months she was there.
At one stage, Mr Giggs interrupted the proceedings and asked Judge Hilary Manley: “Can I have a drink, Your Honour?"
"Of course," was the answer.
After a sip of water, he continued, and his barrister moved on to an incident at the Westin hotel in Dubai where Ms Greville claims she was dragged out of the room naked, causing bruising to her wrist.
Mr Giggs told the court at no stage did he throw Ms Greville into the corridor, nor did anything physical happen, and that he made her sleep on the sofa of their suite.
Asked how the night ended, Mr Giggs said: "After we both calmed down, we ended up spending the night together. We had sex that night."
'We had rough sex - but nothing weird'
Asked to describe their intimacy, he added: "Well, we had sex that we would quite often have, which could get rough, but not anything weird, just rough sex."
Something, he said, they engaged in regularly and mutually.
The court heard how at the beginning of 2018, a "lonely" Kate Greville returned to the UK to work for Mr Giggs and his business partner Mr Neville as an “amazing” head of PR on £100,000.
Asked if there had been any other women in his life during the time Ms Greville was in the Middle East, Mr Giggs said: “Yes”.
In January 2019, Mr Giggs landed the Wales football manager’s role - something he described as his “dream job” having been born in Cardiff and represented the country.
Ms Greville accused Mr Giggs of “giving her the cold shoulder” during that period, but he said it was a “huge job” and he “wanted to be the best manager I could be so I watched as many players as I could”.
The court also heard about the "blackmail" email, which contained a video and a message saying Mr Giggs would send the video to the work WhatsApp group if she didn't unblock him.
Mr Giggs said: "It was just a joke between me and Kate.
'Blackmail' video was just a silly dance to Wham!
"It was just Kate dancing embarrassingly - her nature - just acting silly at a Christmas party.”
The court was told that the investigating officer in the case, Detective Sergeant Adam Agrebi, had known the “blackmail” email was of Kate Greville dancing to Wham! for 18 months.
Mr Daw QC, for the defendant, said the prosecutor Peter Wright QC had no idea of the content of that video when he opened the case, and implied it could have been a sexual clip.
The court also heard how Mr Giggs told police that Ms Greville, through jealousy, had dictated messages for him to send to women that she thought he was having an affair with and made him arrange for her to meet the women so that they could clarify to that nothing had been going on.
The ex-Wales manager is on trial at Manchester Crown Court accused of assaulting Ms Greville and subjecting her to controlling and coercive behaviour from August 2017 to November 2020.
He denies the allegations. The trial continues.
