Ryan Giggs ‘kicked his naked girlfriend out of Dubai hotel room’

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Ryan Giggs kicked his naked girlfriend out of a hotel room in Dubai when she accused him of messaging another woman, his assault trial has heard.

The former Manchester United footballer was on holiday in Dubai visiting Kate Greville when the alleged incident occurred, a jury at Manchester crown court was told.

In a police interview video played to the jury, Greville told detectives that Giggs “flipped” when the pair were in a nightclub and she saw him message “another girl”. Giggs insisted that he was messaging his daughter and when they got back to the hotel room evicted her from their suite, she claimed.

“He literally flipped again,” she said, when interviewed by police weeks after she alleged he headbutted her in November 2020.

“He grabbed me, I had no clothes on, he grabbed me by my arm, my wrist, so hard, and literally dragged me into the lounge bit of the suite, grabbed me, put me on the floor, and took all my suitcases, all my belongings, all my make-up and just threw it all into the corridor and literally shut the door and wouldn’t let me into the bedroom. I’m there, naked. All my stuff was in the middle of the corridor and I was like: what just happened?”

Greville, a PR executive, said Giggs was “almost like he was two people” during their relationship. There was “nice” Ryan and “nasty” Ryan, who was violent and controlling.

She told police she met the Manchester United star in 2013, when her firm was contracted to help him and fellow United player Gary Neville open their Cafe Football and Hotel Football ventures.

She said she and Giggs began an affair when they were both married. She was in an “unhappy” and “really controlling” marriage, which Giggs helped her escape, and he said he wanted to leave his wife, Stacey, for her. Before long, the pair fell in love and by May 2016 their relationship was public.

“I was massively in love with him. I thought he was the best thing ever,” she said in her first police interview. “I genuinely thought he was my soulmate and best friend. You know those love stories you see in the movies? That’s how it felt to me.”

Nonetheless, there were “red flags” from the start, she told police, describing how he would turn up at her flat and ring her buzzer incessantly if she did not answer his calls or messages, and threaten to tell her boss about their affair. On one occasion, when she would not let him in, he shouted: “You are a whore. Have you got somebody in there?”

Later, when they had been arguing, he would turn up at her gym and follow her home, she alleged.

When Giggs failed to leave Stacey, Greville moved to Abu Dhabi “to get away from him”, the court heard. But he continued to bombard her with messages and she eventually agreed to move back to Manchester after Giggs said they could have a baby. Later, when she found out he had been seeing other women, he denied ever promising her this.

One man emailed Greville to say that his wife had been sent a naked photo of Giggs. Greville looked at the photo and realised it was the same one he had sent her a few weeks earlier. She said she confronted Giggs, only for him to claim it had been sent “ages ago” and “passed it off as a bit of banter”.

But she knew the photo was recent. “It’s like your whole body goes into a shock. That was the first time I realised … actually, maybe he’s not what I think he is,” she told police.

On another occasion, when they were arguing and Greville blocked him on social media, she claims Giggs sent her a message entitled “Blackmail”, which contained a video. She did not open the video but feared it was a sex tape the pair had made.

Giggs denies using controlling and coercive behaviour against Greville between August 2017 and November 2020.

He is also charged with assaulting her, causing her actual bodily harm, and of assaulting her younger sister, Emma Greville, at their home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on 1 November 2020. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.