Friday
What is expected to happen in court today?
The trial of Ryan Giggs is expected to hear more prosecution evidence on Friday.
Kate Greville, his ex-girlfriend and the complainant in the case, completed her evidence on Thursday.
The trial is expected to resume at 10.30am.
The day seems to have been spent viewing evidence for the prosecution from the police - from the witness box, in bodycam footage and transcribed telephone calls - which paints a messy picture of a violent domestic disturbance. Itâs all very confusing but the jury have the weekend mull over the detail.
A firm which had employed Ryan Giggsâ ex-girlfriend blocked his emails due to the quantity he was sending her, a court has heard. Elsa Roodt told the jury the email volume was âintenseâ and âKate could not do her workâ.
Ms Roodt, who has a public relations firm in the United Arab Emirates, was giving her evidence via a video link from Dubai. She told Manchester Crown Court Ms Greville had gone to help her and colleague Katie Harvey to set up a new office in Abu Dhabi in 2016.
She said Ms Greville was âhappy and confident and bubblyâ and she socialised when she first arrived. But, over the two years she worked there, she said there was a ânoticeable differenceâ and they did not spend as much time with her. She appeared ânervousâ and she was âobsessedâ with her phone and being available at all times, said Ms Roodt.
The trial continues.
WellâŠjust because he sent her a lot of emails, she didnât need to read them as they came in did she? She should have had a filter on them, so they went into a folder, she could do her work, and get round to them later in the day. 
But then, that isnât the point, I knowâŠ
Emma Greville told jurors he said âIâll headbutt you nextâ after assaulting her sister in an argument at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
Giving evidence from behind a screen at Manchester Crown Court, Emma Greville said she saw Mr Giggs place his hands on her sisterâs shoulders âand with lots of force use his head to headbutt her on her lipâ.
She said Kate Greville screamed and fell to the floor and Mr Giggs told Emma Greville that it was âher faultâ he had done it, then threatened to do the same to her.
She said she âfelt fearâ and that when Kate Greville told her to call the police, Mr Giggs told her not to, telling her to âthink of his daughter and his careerâ.
Ryan Giggsâ ex-girlfriend attacked him, resulting in injuries she said she sustained when he headbutted her, a court has heard.
Prepared statements given to police after his arrest were read in court.
His statement, read at Manchester Crown Court, related to an argument at his home on 1 November 2020 when Mr Giggs said Kate Greville took his phone and refused to return it.
The jury heard he asked both sisters to leave his house in Worsley, Greater Manchester, but they refused.
After the argument had gone on for more than an hour, Mr Giggs said he asked his neighbour to phone the police, but she refused.
"I had no option but to demand my phone to ring the police. I went to the utility room to get hers [Kate Grevilleâs].
âAt this point she gave me my phone and, rather foolishly, I decided to keep hers⊠I should not have done this but was emotional, angry and upset.â
The ex-Wales and Manchester United star explained he was planning to call the police but then Kate Greville grabbed his hand and a scuffle developed with her sister Emma, who was âstanding in close proximityâ.
He stated: âI accept during this scuffle my head clashed with hers [Kate]. I am not sure if it was the face or head but I am sure it was not deliberate.â
Mr Giggsâ statement agreed both sisters were hurt in the scuffle, saying he regretted âthat this argument got so out of handâ.
The case continues.
Giving evidence in his defence, Mr Giggs was asked if his reputation for âinfidelityâ or being a âlove ratâ was justified, to which he said he was âa flirt by natureâ.
Mr Giggs, 48, is accused of controlling behaviour, as well as assaulting Kate Greville, 36, and her younger sister Emma, 26, in November 2020.
He denies all charges.
When questioned by his defence barrister, Chris Daw QC, if he lied to partners including Ms Greville about being unfaithful he said: " Yes, more than once".
But when asked if he had ever physically assaulted a woman, he said ânoâ, adding that he had never set out to control or coerce a woman.
Mr Daw asked: âDid you ever set out to make Kate Greville a slave to your demands, as she claims?â
"No, " the ex-footballer replied.
Methinks the rat doth dissemble with his admission ⊠
Manchester Crown Court heard Ms Greville moved into his house during the first coronavirus lockdown in March 2020, and his daughter and her boyfriend were there most of the time, with his son also staying regularly.
His barrister, Chris Daw, QC asked about Ms Greville describing lockdown as âhellâ during her evidence.
âIt was a really happy time from my perspective,â said Mr Giggs, adding that they would âbickerâ but had âno big argumentsâ.
Asked whether he was âparticularly keen on dishwasher loading techniquesâ, Mr Giggs said the dishwasher would often be on three to four cycles a day due to the number of people staying in the house.
âI would be opening the dishwasher and the tablespoons would be the wrong way round,â he said. âIt would wind me up because I would have to do it again so I called a team meeting and just said, âEveryone, can you please put the tablespoons the right way roundâ.â
Team meeting, eh ⊠
The former Manchester United footballer said he was taken to Pendleton police station in Salford after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting his ex-partner on November 1, 2020.
Asked by Chris Daw QC, defending, how he engaged with cops when they arrived at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, Giggs said: âJust answered their questions.â
On his emotional state at the time, he said: âI was scared. Iâd never been in that position before, so scared.â
Giggs confirmed he was arrested, taken to the police station and spent the night in a cell.
He then started crying as he said it was the âworst experience of my lifeâ.
Aww bless his little cotton socks! 
I knew youâd feel sorry for the poor man ⊠
I wonder what Ron would say:
The trial at Manchester Crown Court heard that Kate Greville, 38, had returned to Mr Giggsâ home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, in a taxi following a row after dinner with the former Wales football manager at his Stock Exchange hotel in Manchester city centre.
During the row, she accused him of messaging a string of women in recent months.
Mr Giggs, 48, arrived separately and the row continued as they tussled over their mobile phones, the jury heard.
Emma Greville, who was looking after the coupleâs dog, called the police at 22:05 BST and when asked what had happened said: âAssault. Headbutted her.â
In the recording of the call, played to the jury, she urges the police to âcome quicklyâ as a female - Kate Greville - can be heard crying.
The operator asks: âDoes she need an ambulance that lady who is screaming in the background?â
Emma Greville replies: âI think, yeah. He has just headbutted her in the face.â
The trial has ended for the day and will resume on Monday.
He said, she said ⊠by now the jury will have a good idea of whoâs telling the truth - they will have the advantage of seeing associated body language ⊠
In this sad and sordid story I thought this was hilarious.
Ryan Giggs awful poetry .
Byron he ainât .
'Iâm not going to lie I think of you I dream of you. Canât help thinking pulling you was my greatest ever coo (sic).
Correction - The trial continues:
Sir Alex Ferguson gives evidence in court - as Giggsâ ex lists names of women âhe cheated withâ, including cricketerâs wife
Sir Alex Ferguson tells court Giggs had âfantastic temperamentâ
The court hears details of a letter Kate Greville wrote to Ryan Giggs called âthe final goodbyeâ.
In the letter, she branded Giggs a âcompulsive liarâ and âserial cheatâ.
âI wanted to believe the things you told me,â she wrote.
"I stayed loyal and committed to you, no matter what.
âI think you underestimated my ability to find things out.â
Ms Greville then listed women she claimed that Giggs was having âfull-onâ relationships with during the course of their relationship.
She said she knew Giggs was âsending dirty messages about threesomesâ to one woman and that he had been seeing a woman who is now married to a cricketer.
This is all just another âCelebâ who canât keep it in his trousers, to me. 
As the trial entered its third week on Monday, the defence case came to a conclusion and Judge Hilary Manley began her summing up by giving the jury directions.
She told them they had to decide the case on the evidence and that they must decide âwhether a witness was a truthful witnessâ. If there were âinaccuraciesâ they must consider if they matter âin the overall context of the caseâ, she said.
Judge Manley went on to say that both Kate Greville and former Wales manager Mr Giggs became distressed while giving their evidence., but she said they must ââŠput aside any sympathyâ.
She reminded them that she told them at the start of the case that they must put aside any emotion, and she said they must âcontinue that way.â
The trial continues.
The jury was reminded of the call, with Mr Giggs in the background saying she caused the incident.
In his closing speech for the prosecution, Peter Wright QC said the call was made within moments of the incident having taken place.
âWhat a remark, said Mr Wright. " Not, it was an accident, I didnât mean it.â
Mr Wright said that Mr Giggs was the âliving embodimentâ of the contradictions in the case, from âhate-filled outburst of bileâ to the very same woman he had, âsometimes only moments earlierâ professed to âlove in perpetuity.â
Reminding the jury about emails in which he calls Ms Greville by a deeply unpleasant name, Mr Wright said this is what Mr Giggs, a âpolite paragon of public behaviourâ was capable of.
âEven now he canât explain why he sent it,â he said, because, to do so would âreveal the coercive and controlling nature of his conduct.â
Mr Wright then invited the jury to âcompare and contrastâ the âcalm and cooperative Ryan Giggsâ on dealing with the police at his house on 1 November 2020 with what they heard in the 999 call.
In his closing speech for the prosecution at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Wright reiterated that there were âtwo very different Ryan Giggsâ.
âThe one who is exposed for public consumption and the Ryan Giggs who exists on occasion behind closed doors,â he added.
Mr Wright said Mr Giggs âthought he could do whatever he likedâ to Ms Greville and that he would âget away with itâ.
âBut all that changed on the night of 1 November when the basis upon which he operated disintegrated before his very eyes,â he said.
âEventually it had caught up with him⊠and he has no-one else to blame for it but himself.â
In his closing speech for the defence, Mr Daw said the jury may have felt that watching Mr Giggs being cross-examined in the witness box was like watching a âblood sportâ.
He said that Mr Giggs was a man of âlimited educationâ that was at times âembarrassedâ to admit he did not understand some of the questions.
âWhatever you make if all of that⊠keep in mind it is not up to him to prove his innocence,â Mr Draw added.
He was âhamperedâ by the âlack of the right wordsâ, said Mr Daw, adding: âNone of that means he is guilty of anything.â
Mr Daw then moved on to what Mr Giggs is and is not on trial for.
âHe is not on trial for being flirtatious,â he said, or for being a âcompulsive womaniserâ or for being a âno-good heartbreakerâ.
âIf they were crimes, he probably would be guilty for at least some of them,â he said.
He added that in some places, like Saudi Arabia and Somalia, infidelity is against the law and people can be executed. He reminded the jury that this trial is taking place âin Englandâ.
âIt is about the criminal charges of controlling behaviour and assault.â
More tomorrow.
The judge presiding over the trial of former Manchester United player and Wales manager Ryan Giggs has told jurors it âis not a court of moralsâ. Judge Hilary Manley also said the retired player, 48, was not on trial for his infidelity.
On Tuesday, Judge Manley asked the jury was this, as the defence has suggested, âa relationship with ups and downsâŠâ which âveered off the railsâ because of the complainantsâ inability to accept the defendantâs âwomanisingâ.
The judge went on to ask whether it was, as the prosecution has said, âmore sinisterâ, and did Mr Giggs âexert powerâ over Kate Greville and âultimately attacking her and her sisterâ.
âay, thereâs the rub!â
