Ryan Giggs told girlfriend, ‘I wish I’d cheated’ as she called him ‘an absolute skank’, court hears

On Aug 11, 2022

Ryan Giggs told ex-girlfriend Kate Greville ‘I wish I had cheated’ as she labelled him ‘an absolute skank, liar and narcissist’ in a furious exchange of messages, a court has heard.

The former Manchester United footballer, 48, is accused of ‘headbutting’ Ms Greville during a row in at his £1.7 Manchester home in November 2020.

He is charged with assaulting his former partner and her sister Emma, along with using controlling and coercive behaviour against Ms Greville between August 2017 and November 2020.

Day four of the trial today heard a thread of messages exchanged between the then couple on August 14, 2020 – three months before the alleged headbutt incident.

Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, read the message exchange in which Ms Greville told Giggs: ‘You’re a liar’.

Giggs replied: ‘Kate, you didn’t catch me in bed with anyone. I sent a few drunk texts.

‘Chills babes. Best night I’ve had in a pub. Wish I had cheated now.’

Ms Greville then said: ‘Ewwwww you are vile. Go to hell you absolute skank. You’re a liar, you’re a cheat, you’re a narcissist, you’re a manipulator, you’re controlling, you’re aggressive, you’re violent, you’re a disappointment. No f*** off out of my life.’

Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs pictured as he left Manchester Crown Court following day four of his domestic assault trial today

Giggs is charged with assaulting his former partner Kate Greville (pictured) and her sister Emma, along with using controlling and coercive behaviour

Day four of the trial today heard a thread of messages exchanged between the then couple three months before the alleged assault

The court today heard that Ms Greville (pictured) labelled Giggs ‘an absolute skank, liar and narcissist’

Giggs replied: ‘Now not no love. That angry you can’t write. Chills.’

His ex-girlfriend said: ‘You actually just tried to trivialise what you just did?? Been speaking to Nicky have you???

‘Or your other cheating friends. ARRRHHH you poor things all agreeing that it’s not that bad what you did. You don’t give a f*** about my feelings. That last message proved that once and for all.’

Giggs then added: ‘Give the therapist a call, Kate. Nah I don’t run off crying to my friends like you do. You’re right, I don’t give a f*** about your feelings.

‘But your hatred today is on another level. That bad it’s funny.’

No further e-mails followed until August 16 when Giggs wrote: ‘I miss you so much.’

Lawyers for Giggs today also asked Ms Greville about an article that appeared in The Sun on November 16, 2020 – four days before she was interviewed by police about her domestic assault allegations.

The story featured a photograph of Ms Greville walking along a country lane with her dog, alongside the words ‘Living hell. Ryan Giggs’s ex spotted with a bruised lip in first outing since Wales manager’s assault arrest’.

Messages were read to the court between Ms Greville and a friend on November 10.

The friend wrote: ‘I’m selling the next pic of you and getting some paper out of this (laughing emojis).’

Ms Greville replied: ‘We can set up a pic and get money for both of us. What do you think?’ The friend said: ‘I think yes.’ Ms Greville wrote back: ‘We could get 5K.’

The friend added: “And kit our new apartment out.’ To which Ms Greville replied: ‘I think more to cover my legal costs (laugh emoji).’

The court heard that Ms Greville later sent a link of the article to her friend. She told her she looked ‘awful but me looking rough makes it look less staged’.

She wrote: ‘I think it’s good I look s**t to be honest.’

Mr Daw then asked Ms Greville if the photographs were staged and accused her of ‘deliberately trying to make it look like something had happened to you.

Ms Greville denied the allegation, adding: ‘I was trying to stop the paps turning up my doorstep every day. To take back control.

Giggs (left), 48, is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate Greville (right), 36, between August 2017 and November 2020. The pair are pictured here on holiday in 2018

‘Obviously I had an injury and I wanted to show them the reality but it was about stopping the photographers and press turning up at my family’s door twice/three times a day to get pics of me.’

Mr Daw also today questioned Ms Greville about a message she sent to Giggs in which she said her lips were ‘f***ing killing’ after having filler in them.

She said the cosmetic procedure did not cause bruising or swelling, but had caused her lips to become ‘more tender’.

Chris Daw QC, representing Giggs, asked if her lips were more sensitive at the time of the alleged assault due to the filler procedure.

She replied: ‘I’ve not been headbutted in the face when I’ve not had filler so I don’t know if they’re more sensitive with or without.’

Instead, she told the court that the ex-Wales manager had ‘looked me straight in the eyes and headbutted me in my lip’.

Mr Daw asked Ms Greville where he had allegedly headbutted her, and she indicated her upper lip, between her lip and nose.

She said she had no idea which part of his head he used ‘because I didn’t see, because it was right in my face’.

Mr Daw then said: ‘It wasn’t a headbutt, was it?’

He added: ‘It was two faces coming together in a very minor form of contact.’

But Ms Greville insisted it was a headbutt, adding: ‘That suggestion is completely false. What happened is he came at me with his arms on my shoulders, looked me straight in the eyes and headbutted me in my lip.’

Giggs denies all charges.

The trial continues.

Ryan Giggs trial – A summary: What the jury have heard so far

Ryan Giggs’s ex-girlfriend Kate Greville said the former footballer kicked her in the back ‘so hard’ that she ‘fell off the bed’ and to the floor during a hotel in London in 2019;
A tearful Ms Greville said she was ‘ashamed’ of the decision to ‘keep going back’ to the ex Manchester United star, telling jurors: ‘It was a cycle of abuse that he promised the world. He was very convincing, he could be very charming’;
Mr Daw also took aim at Ms Greville’s suggestions that Giggs had interfered in her relationships with her friends in the lead up to the end of their relationship in November 2020;
He said in the months before their break-up, Ms Greville had enjoyed three holidays, to Ibiza, Portugal and Greece – the latter two of which she had flown out with her friends;
The court heard how Giggs and Ms Greville were ‘utterly addicted’ to messaging and expected each other to reply ‘in seconds’;
Giggs’s lawyer, Chris Daw QC, said Ms Greville would complain about the footballer’s response times to her messages, but she told the court she had been ‘conditioned’ to behave like this;
The court also heard about an alleged incident in the Stafford Hotel in London in December 2019, when Ms Greville alleges she was thrown out of their room ‘naked’ by Giggs, who then ‘threw a laptop’ at her head;
Mr Daw told the court that the pair had exchanged messages the next day and that he had offered to collect her from Shrewsbury the following morning;
Asked why Giggs came to collect her when he could have got a taxi, she said: ‘He felt guilty about what he had done the night before’;
But the barrister responded: ‘This was the day after you claim he violently assaulted you and reading these messages we don’t even get a hint of that’;
Jurors were yesterday told how an email sent by Giggs to Ms Greville entitled ‘Blackmail’ that she believed was a sex tape actually showed her singing Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’. She told a court she had not opened the attachment.
Ms Greville also told a court how she ‘dropped her phone into a river’ and had her second phone pinched by muggers after being asked to share it with officers probing her assault claims;
It was revealed on Wednesday that Giggs’s daughter discovered her father’s affair with Ms Greville after finding a digital Valentines Card sent to the soccer ace. Liberty Giggs found the Valentines message on her father’s phone in February 2018;
Ms Greville, meanwhile, batted-off suggestions she was a ‘gold digger’ from the footballer’s legal team after it was revealed she told a friend she was ‘not going to walk away’ from their ‘violent’ relationship ‘with nothing’;
In cross examination by the former footballer’s lawyer, Chris Daw QC, she rejected that she was seeking compensation from the star, saying: ‘Absolutely not’;
Ms Greville claimed initially her and Giggs’ relationship had been ‘amazing’, but had then deteriorated before becoming ‘relentlessly awful’ while they lived together during the Covid pandemic;
Giggs is accused of having ‘full-on’ relationships with eight other women during his his ‘toxic’ six-year on-off relationship with Kate Greville;
Ms Greville told jurors she found evidence of his infidelity on an iPad and then confronted Giggs;
Ms Greville said she decided to leave Giggs while he was away managing Wales – and would move into a new flat;
She told the jury that when she attempted to leave the ex-Manchester United star over his ‘controlling’ behaviour, Giggs ‘bombarded’ her with up to 50 messages an hour and threatened to ruin her career;
The court heard that in one instance when she stopped answering him, he flew out to where she was staying in Dubai and said to her ‘let’s start a family, you are the only person I want to be with’;
She told jurors that during two rows Giggs threw her naked out of their hotel room – and on one occasion threw a laptop at her head;
Ms Greville also claimed the former Wales winger ‘randomly’ sent a naked photo of himself to her, that she feared he could post ‘something of a really private nature’ on a work WhatsApp group and that he would call her by the name of his ex-wife, Stacey, as his ‘ultimate insult’;
Ms Greville says that during a row in at his £1.7 Manchester home in November 2020 Giggs ‘come out of nowhere’ and ‘deliberately headbutted’ her;
Giggs is in on trial 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 denies all charges.