Giggs ‘headbutted me in row over his eight lovers’

The former girlfriend of Ryan Giggs has told a UK court the football great had ‘two personalities’.

Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs outside court. Picture: Getty Images

Ryan Giggs’s former girlfriend told a court of the moment the footballer allegedly looked her in the eyes and headbutted her after she discovered that he had been cheating with eight different women.

Kate Greville, 38, said that she was attacked by the former Manchester United midfielder, who she described as having two personalities, after she confronted him for being unfaithful.

Giggs, 48, is alleged to have “lost control” and assaulted Greville shortly after she packed up her belongings at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, and is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting her, causing actual bodily harm and of common assault against her younger sister Emma by elbowing her in the face in the same row in November 2020.

Giggs, who won 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League trophies with Manchester United, and 64 caps for Wales, denies all the charges. On the second day of the trial at Manchester crown court the jury was told that he had “full-on relationships” with eight women during his time together with Greville. The pair first met in 2013 and started an affair when they were both married.

Giving evidence behind a curtain, an emotional Greville said that she planned to leave Giggs after she discovered evidence on his iPad of his string of alleged affairs “going back many years”. However, she decided to end the relationship immediately after a row while staying at the Manchester Stock Exchange Hotel, which Giggs co-owns with Gary Neville, in November 2020. The pair fell out over dinner after Greville mentioned that a man had asked her on a date.

She told Peter Wright QC, for the prosecution, that she returned to their room and presented him with evidence of his affairs and a row began.

Greville said she then went back home, where her sister was dog-sitting, and began packing but Giggs arrived. “He was very angry. I hadn’t seen him that angry before,” she said, adding that he was drunk.

Greville said a row started over Giggs’s phone and he pushed her to the floor and pinned her down. She added that her sister grabbed Giggs by the waist to pull him off but he pushed his arm back to try to get her off him and hit her in the jaw. The pair then moved to the kitchen where she told him she would tell the police he had attacked her before he “came towards me and headbutted me in my face” with “no warning”. “He really wanted to hurt me. He looked me straight in the eyes and headbutted me in the face.”

Giggs was arrested when police arrived.

The jury was played Greville’s interview with police in which she said Giggs had previously “flipped” in a Dubai hotel room. She said she had been dragged across the floor naked.

The trial continues.

The Times