The ex-girlfriend of former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has instructed a court docket she grew to become “a slave to his every need and every demand”.
Kate Greville instructed a jury at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday that when Giggs instructed her to do one thing, she would do it.
The PR govt instructed Chris Daw QC, defending, throughout cross-examination: “He made me feel like I had to do what he said, otherwise there were consequences.”
Giggs, 48, denies utilizing controlling and coercive behaviour towards Ms Greville, 36, between August 2017 and November 2020, assaulting her, inflicting precise bodily hurt, and the widespread assault of her youthful sister, Emma.
The court docket heard that Ms Greville gave a press release the day earlier than the beginning of the trial wherein she stated she had felt like “a slave” to the defendant.
She stated: “That is what it felt like. When Ryan said do something, I would do it.”
Ms Greville agreed that she has made numerous witness statements to police following the alleged assault in November 2020, together with two within the final week.
Mr Daw requested: “In the course of those statements, did you tell the police the whole truth?”
She replied: “100 per cent.”
Mr Daw stated: “Have you ever told any lies to the police about anything?”
Ms Greville replied: “No.”
The barrister went on: “Have you ever told lies to anyone else – your family and friends – in relation to this case?”
She repeated: “No.”
Mr Daw stated: “It’s your position, is it not, that in effect he almost manipulated you into entering a relationship in the first place – a degree of mind games?”
Ms Greville stated: “I was in a vulnerable position and he played on it.”
Mr Daw stated: “This was not just two consenting adults, both equally married at the time, who embarked on an affair?”
The witness replied: “There was a degree of imbalance on my side because of the situation I was in with my ex-husband.”
She instructed the court docket that Giggs’ alleged controlling behaviour additionally affected her friendships and “he isolated me from certain people”.
She added he additionally “interfered with my ability to interact with my family”.
Ms Greville instructed the court docket that violence by Giggs was “not regular” and he would use aggression extra as a type of management.
Mr Daw requested: “Do you say he undermined your confidence, your self-esteem and was disparaging to you generally in those ways?”
She stated: “Yes, on the whole he was, but on the other side it was like two extremes. Other times he would give me confidence.
“He was not constantly awful, not constantly horrible. It was hot and cold. Two different people. The result of his behaviour … undermined my self-confidence.”
Ms Greville stated she is “really into psychology” and through the relationship she Googled what was occurring in her relationship.
“The thing that came up was not coercion, there was narcissistic personality disorder,” she instructed the court docket. “And what I was experiencing was very similar to that.”
Mr Daw requested the witness whether or not she was “planning on seeking a large sum of compensation when this is over?”
Ms Greville replied: “Absolutely not.”
On Tuesday, Ms Greville instructed a jury that Giggs grabbed her by the shoulders and headbutted her in November 2020 after she earlier confronted him about his serial dishonest.
She stated within the lead-up to the alleged assault she had realized he had had “full-on relationships” with eight ladies whereas they have been collectively.
The discovery of messages “going back years” on the previous Wales worldwide’s iPad prompted her to determine to go away him, she stated.
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk