LIVE Ryan Giggs trial latest as Kate Greville's sister speaks about alleged headbutt attack

Ryan Giggs denies all charges

The sister of Ryan Giggs' ex-partner has described the moment the footballer allegedly headbutted Kate Grenville before saying 'I’ll headbutt you next'.

Mr Giggs' ex-girlfriend, Kate Greville, alleges he attacked her at his home in Swinton after they had an argument at the Stock Exchange hotel.

Mr Giggs denies assaulting Ms Greville, and has also pleaded not guilty to assaulting her sister Emma in the same incident. He also denies behaving in a controlling and coercive manner towards Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020.

Manchester Crown Court has heard that the couple had an argument at the Manchester city centre hotel after Ms Greville told Mr Giggs that a man had asked her for a drink. Ms Greville claims that she had previously found evidence of Mr Giggs alleged infidelity with eight women.

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Giving evidence, Emma Greville said that in a row over their phone, he had elbowed her "before putting both hands on Kate's shoulders and with lots of force used his head to headbutt her in her lip."

"Afterwards he told me it was my fault he had headbutted Kate and turned to me and said ‘I’ll headbutt you next’... (He was) extremely angry… I felt fear as he had just headbutted Kate so why wouldn't he do the same to me?"

On the fifth day of the trial last week (Friday), jurors heard two 999 calls Emma Greville made just after 10pm. She claimed Mr Giggs had 'headbutted' her sister in the face. Bodycam footage taken by PC Chris Billington, one of the first officers at the scene, was also played in court.

In the footage, Mr Giggs tells the officer the pair "got into a bit of a tangle" as he tried to get his phone off her.

"She asked for my phone and there's been a struggle over there right… I hit her in the lip, I got injured first and then it calmed down," he said.

He later told the officer Ms Greville was "going to say I’ve attacked her."

He denies all the charges.

The trial continues today and is expected to hear evidence from Emma Greville. Follow our live blog from the courtroom in Manchester Crown Square below.

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Mrs Cheung has made claims she saw Kate Greville "laughing" in a mood of "high jinks" after Giggs’ arrest.

Mr Daw said: "Did you see anything of events of people coming to the house after police left?"

The witness said: "I certainly did.. After the police had left I was very concerned about the dog because Ryan idolised that puppy. I kept on saying to police about his house not being secured. How could police leave the house with the sisters in it?

"I stayed up and was looking through my window and took a video on my phone of what was going on and eventually a white car came, a very small white car.

"They spent a phenomenal amount of time, the two sisters and the boy who came, spent screaming, shouting, laughing running up and down my main drive…

"Kate was running up and down the drive with Mack in her arms saying ‘You should asleep babe, you should be asleep, this is not what we wanted’."

Mr Daw said: "What seemed to be the mood?"

Mrs Cheung said: "The mood was high jinks, that's how I would describe it."

In rexamination, prosecutor Mr Wright asked: "Could you recall (Giggs) having any form of injury?"

Mrs Cheung said: "No, I was just so utterly shocked because he was at my door virtually crying and distressed and the one thing I knew, he never went outside with his slippers on, they were brown slippers and it was raining. And I though ‘Why has he got his slippers on?’ and he was distressed."

"I thought it was going to be like last time (Mrs Cheung was interrupted by Mr Wright)

The prosecutor said: "Did you notice anything about (his face)?"

Mrs Cheung said: "No, nothing."

The witness has finished her evidence and the trial is adjourned until 10.30am tomorrow.

She said: "I said I can't go because I can't interfere for not understanding the situation.

"Ryan has then moved on and asked ‘Can you phone the police as she won't leave’. I said to Ryan ‘Do you really want me to ring the police?’

Ryan explained to me ‘I haven't got my phone, she ‘s taking my phone off me and he's got Mack’. I understood this to mean Ryan's dog and understood he idolises the dog.

"I asked who else was at the property, he said Emma who I understand is Kate's sister.

"I initially said ‘You could come in here or lock yourself in one of your bedrooms’ and pointed to one of his windows. He didn't actually answer or respond but throughout this Ryan was saying to me "She won't leave, she won't leave".

"Ryan then said ‘I understand you don't want to be involved’."

Mr Daw said: "Was he extremely upset and tearful?"

Mrs Cheung said: "That's how I would describe him."

Mr Daw said: "You said that was the most upset you had seen him since he had lived there."

Mrs Cheung said: "That is correct."

Mr Daw, for Giggs, cross examines Mrs Cheung.

The witness, who was a forensic accountant, said she insisted on police taking her statement that night which "annoyed them". She added: "You have to be accurate."

Mrs Cheung was asked how long she had known Giggs, she said: "21 years."

Mr Daw said: "Has he always been polite and neighbourly?"

Mrs Cheung said: "Always… I would refer to him as a friend now as well as a neighbour."

The witness was asked to read from her witness statement.

She said: "As I opened the door Ryan said ‘Linda Linda, can you help me’ Ryan appeared upset and distressed and tears were in his eyes. It was the most upset I had seen him since he had been in the property. He was wearing a white shirt and suede slippers. I don't recall Ryan having any injuries."

She said the statement was not in sequence.

Mrs Cheung continued: "Ryan has then asked me ‘Can you come and see Kate’, I know Kate Greville as Ryan's partner of two years and had known their relationship was off and on. I got to know Kate during lockdown, and knew they split up in summer 2020.

"Kate was accusing him of seeing other women, I said ‘Oh Ryan, not this again.’"

Mr Daw said: "You don't have to be his next door neighbour to hear rumours about that."

Mrs Cheung said: "Correct."

Mrs Cheung continued "I could feel my heart rate pounding and in a matter I was thinking what I could do to help without being involved in a situation that might have consequences and making myself feel ill… I probably just stared blankly at him because I was panicking thinking what I could do to help him without fueling the situation."

Mr Wright said: "What did he then do?"

Mrs Chung said: "He walked away towards his house, I watched him walk and my husband told me off for interfering and said I was going to make myself ill. I was so concerned I watched the rest of the evening from my windows."

The witness said she saw Giggs go back into his home. She added: "I then saw him carrying bags down our main drive towards the gate… What I then did, I went to my bedroom and he put the bags and walked up the drive and repeated the process."

Mrs Cheung said she saw the police arrive and was spoken to by an officer.

Mrs Cheung said a Range Rover was positioned "randomly" behind her husband's car.

Mr Wright asked if he responded to Giggs request to "sort her out".

The witness said: "No, at that request I said ‘I can't help because I don't what happened’... He looked at me, it was very heavy rain, he was distressed and I noticed immediately he had slippers on."

Mr Wright said: "Did he say anything else to you?"

Mrs Cheung said: "And then he said ‘Can I phone the police?’... ‘She's got my phone, she won't leave’... I’m not surgically attached to my phone and when I’m in the house I keep my phone in the study, I went to my study got my phone and remember holding my phone in my right hand. When he asked me to phone the police, I remember holding my phone out and saying ‘I’m not phoning the police, but you’re welcome to use my phone.

"I was helping but I wasn't going to phone the police."

Mr Wright said: "Did he take you up on your offer?"

Mrs Cheung said: "No, he looked at me and I said ‘Don't phone the police’... I didn't explain to Ryan (why).

She added: "He looked at me and didn't say anything, I’m thinking what can I do to help. Because then I was dealing with Kate leaving the house…

"He looked in distress and said ‘You can come in here or lock yourself in one of your bedrooms’."

Mr Wright said: "Did he take you up on the offer?"

Mrs Cheung said: "No… He looked at me and didn't say anything no…"

The next witness to give evidence is Giggs’ neighbour Linda Cheung.

Mr Wright asks Mrs Cheung about the events of November 1, 2020.

The witness said she knew Giggs and had been a neighbour of his for "many years".

Mrs Cheung said her husband arrived home from work at 9.30pm and shortly later she heard a noise at her front door.

She said: "It was very loud banging… It was Ryan Giggs… I opened the door before I saw it was Ryan…

"In one word I would describe it as distressed… He asked me to help him… He said words to the effect of that Kate had been accusing (him) of seeing other women and he wanted me to go over and sort her out,"

Mr Wright said: "Was it explained?"

Mrs Cheung said: "How could I sort somebody out as to why I didn't know why they needed sorting out… Other than the initial comment he just then said ‘Can you go and sort her out, can you go over?’ I looked over and saw the garage door which was left open as it often was…

"He said Kate had accused him of seeing other girls and my initial statement was ‘Oh Ryan, not that again’."

The trial resumes.

Prosecutor Peter Wright briefly questions the witness about the dog.

Emma Greville said: "It was to take the dog with us… In the car, the car Ryan had bought Kate."

Mr Wright said: "Where were you going to go?"

Emma Greville said: "Originally the plan was to go back to my dad's house."

Mr Wright said: "After Mr Giggs came back you said he was saying to Kate to say your goodbyes to the dog. What was the plan for the dog as far as you were concerned?"

Emma Greville said: "That we weren't taking the dog with us."

Mr Wright said: "Why did you believe he had gone to the neighbour?"

The witness said she believed Giggs had asked the neighbour to call the police

Mr Wright said: "What state was he in physically?

Emma Greville said: "I thought he had gone to the neighbour with a cut on his lip."

Mr Wright said: "Had these events taken place by the time he returned from the neighbour's?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes. He got his cut lip from the scuffle on the floor."

Mr Wright said: "On his return he told you the neighbour had called the police, thereafter did anything more physical happen?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes the headbutt in the kitchen."

She said she called the police "a matter of minutes" after the alleged headbutt on Kate Greville.

The witness added: "I was confused because he told me not to call the police but he said he had already called the police."

She was asked again about her claim Giggs threatened to "headbut her".

Emma Greville said: "Yes he did straight after headbutting my sister."

Mr Wright said: "Prior to the police arriving how did he appear?"

"Erratic, he wasn't calmly walking around. I would have said he was pacing up and down, stressed," she said.

The QC asked: "What was his behaviour like when police arrived?"

Emma Greville said: "Calm, he appeared calm when police arrived."

She was also asked about the claim there was an accidental "clash of heads" between Mr Giggs and Kate Greville.

Mr Wright said: "You said you totally disagree."

Emma Greville said: "Totally… because he way he grabbed her shoulders, headbutted her and told me he would headbutt me next, to me is not an accident. Neither did he apologise to me or my sister when she was on the floor screaming."

Emma Greville has now finished her evidence.

Mr Daw refers to messages sent between Emma and Kate Greville.

The witness’ ex boyfriend messaged her: "Hopefully now you can see it is now me Emma, this has been the worst week of my life and you just blocked me."

She screenshotted this message and sent it to Kate Greville.

Kate Greville messaged her sister: "Oh wow what an absolute skank."

Emma Greville messaged: "I know, how you feeling about the article?"

Kate Greville messaged: "I look so shit (three laughing emojis). Probs a good thing though. Looks less staged."

Emma Greville messaged: "I think they are good photos as it looks real."

Mr Daw asked the witness: "What looked real?"

Emma Greville said: "The fact she’d obviously staged the whole event and I thought it didn't look staged. I didn't agree with it but that's what I thought. That doesn't imply I didn't disagree with it."

Mr Daw said: "What looked real was the bruises, the bruises looked real on the photograph."

Emma Greville said: "They were real but that's not what I was referring to."

Mr Daw said: "The whole point of the article was to make it look like a chance photograph with obvious facial injury."

Emma Greville said: "The point was about the photo, not the injuries."

Mr Daw said: "You knew there was a criminal investigation when this took place, Ryan was being investigated for an assault on your sister and other things. Did you tell the police your sister had staged photos?"

Emma Greville said: "No but she did."

Mr Daw said: "Did you consider the potential damage to a criminal investigation of setting up staged photographs?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes I said it was totally wrong and I stand by that."

Mr Daw said: "Ultimately your loyalty lies with your sister."

Emma Greville said: "My loyalty lies with her but I always make sure she's ok."

The barrister has finished his cross examination and the court adjourns for a 10 minute break.

Mr Daw refers to pictures taken of Kate Greville which were featured in The Sun on November 16

He said: "Did you become aware she was going to set this up?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Did you become aware she lied to other members of your family about it?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

The barrister referred to messages sent by Kate Greville to Courtney Lang.

Kate Greville messaged: "Emma is not happy we’re taking this picture. I told her they’re going to keep trying to get one of me and they’ll get it. She said it's immoral… and we’re like Silks."

Mr Daw said: "You were saying they were as bad as your ex boyfriend to do this and they were immoral."

Emma Greville said: "Yes… Totally immoral."

Mr Daw said: "Kate messaged ‘She's on another planet that girl’, referring to you."

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Giggs’ barrister continues his cross examination of the witness.

Mr Daw said: "After police left, you and Kate were trying to catch the dog?"

Emma Greville said: "I can't recall."

Mr Daw said: "Do you remember having a laugh between the two of you while chasing the dog around?"

Emma Greville said: "I can't recall."

Mr Daw said: "You continued to discuss this event with Kate after you provided witness statements?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Were you aware Kate was having lip procedures at this time which were quite painful."

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Did you discover your boyfriend had been leaking stories to The Sun?"

Emma Greville said: "I found out a week after the night the assault happened."

Mr Daw said: "Did you break up with him?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes I broke up with him."

Mr Daw asked her how members of the media knew how to turn up on the night of the alleged assault

Emma Greville said: "My then boyfriend called the newspaper and sent screenshots of my location so they knew where to go and they turned up and took photos."

Mr Daw said: "You said ‘Silks has just got this email from The Sun’. You send a screenshot of an email from your ex boyfriend to the Sun. ‘It's his money to get paid’."

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "You were singularly unimpressed and that was the end of him."

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw turns to a transcript of Emma Greville's 999 call.

He read from the transcript. "‘He headbutted her lip, I think’. Why did you have to think?"

Emma Greville said: "At that point she had her hands over face and I didn't know where direct contact had been."

Mr Daw said: "You said she got blood everywhere. Where?"

Emma Greville said: "She had blood on her hands."

Mr Daw said: "What in fact she had was a fat lip, a burst lip. That was her injury."

Emma Greville said: "No, her lip was cut. There was blood coming from her lip, it was not a fat lip."

Mr Daw said: "That injury was caused during the tussle over the phone in the kitchen. Not a headbutt."

Emma Greville said: "I disagree."

Mr Daw said: "You said Katie immediately started screaming and shouting ‘You’ve headbutted me’."

Emma Greville said: "I can't recall what she said."

The barrister asked about the witness’ claim Giggs told her to "think about his daughter and his career".

He said: "(Giggs) was saying to you ‘Don't tell lies’ wasn't he?"

Emma Greville said: "Correct."

Mr Daw said: "Before police arrived, did you discuss what you were going to say?"

Emma Greville said: "I didn't speak to Kate, she was crying as you can hear in a phone call."

Mr Daw said: "Did you think up a theory as to why Mr Giggs had gone to call the police?"

Emma Greville said: "No, I thought he had gone to the neighbour to call the police because he had hurt his lip."

The barrister suggested Giggs didn't have a split lip when he went to his neighbour, because "nothing had happened" at that point.

CCTV footage is played of Mr Giggs and Emma Greville talking outside the front door of Giggs's home on November 1, 2020.

Giggs appeared to be remonstrating with her and talking.

Emma Greville comes out of the house and can be seen speaking on the phone to police.

Mr Daw said: "You claim Mr Giggs threatened to headbutt you in the face, that's not true."

Emma Greville said: "Yes it is true."

Mr Daw said: "You don't look particularly scared of him."

Emma Greville said: "No, with adrenaline running through me, I was making sure he wasn't running away."

Mr Daw said: "He was walking calmly to the gate to meet the police."

Emma Greville said: "I don't know, I’m not in his brain."

Mr Daw said: "Did it occur to you to lock the door and wait inside the house until the police got there?"

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw asks Emma Greville about the alleged headbutt on Kate Greville by Mr Giggs.

He said: "You’re suggesting Mr Giggs headbutted your sister in the face?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "You said he did so with major force in your witness statement and in your evidence today. You said today he put his hands on his shoulders and delivered the headbutt with major force. You don't mention the shoulders, if you look at your witness statement you don't mention the shoulders."

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw said: "Is that something you’ve discussed with your sister?"

Emma Greville said: "No I was giving my side of the story, I was shock and you don't always pick up on things when your sister has just been headbutted."

Mr Daw said: "Have you discussed this with your sister, the headbutt?"

Emma Greville said: "Of course we’ve discussed the incident."

Mr Daw said: "I’m going to suggest there was no more than accidental impact during the course of a scuffle round the kitchen, I take it you disagree."

Emma Greville said: "Totally disagree."

Mr Daw refers to messages sent by Emma Greville to various people on the night of November 1, 2020.

She messaged Courtney Lang, Kate's flatmate at the time and asked if the dog could move into the flat. Ms Lang messaged: "Absolutely not."

Kate and Emma Greville's mum messaged Emma: "Just heard from Kate you’re coming home. Are you coming too?."

Emma messaged: "Ryan's just got home, so don't know what's happening I don't know if Kate's coming because Ryan's here and won't let her take the car. I don't know what's happening."

Her mother messaged: "Are they arguing?"

Emma Greville messaged: "Yes."

Her mother messaged: "That's awkward, did she know she was about to leave?"

Emma Greville messaged: "Yes, I don't know what to do mum."

Ms Lang messaged Emma Greville: "Oh God, I’ve heard from (Kate). Are you ok?"

Emma Greville messaged: "It's not good… I don't know what to do."

Ms Lang messaged: "I would go along with what she is saying."

Emma Greville messaged: "Ryan has come home and won't let us take the car or Mac [the dog]."

She also messaged someone saying Mr Giggs and Kate Greville had had a "physical fight".

Mr Daw said: "You messaged ‘They’ve just had a physical fight’. Were you talking about the scuffle over the phone?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "You didn't say Ryan had attacked Kate?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "You only saw part of the incident because you were in the kitchen, and didn't see how they came to be on the floor."

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Did you see Mr Giggs had blood on his face, on his lips?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Did you see your sister kick him in the face?"

Emma Greville said: "No."

Emma Greville is asked by Giggs’ barrister about the moment when she alleges the former Wales manager attacked her.

Mr Daw said: "What I suggest is Mr Giggs’ face was not near her face but further down her body, she had fallen backwards and he had not fallen completely on top of her. Do you agree or not?"

Emma Greville said: "No."

The barrister suggested Mr Giggs was trying to get up and get backwards.

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

He asked if Mr Giggs put his hands up to protect himself from being kicked by Kate Greville.

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw said:" You said (Giggs’ elbow) touched your jaw in a ‘Get off me manner’. You illustrated to the jury with your right elbow but you told police on the night Ryan turned slightly towards the left and used his left elbow to hit you. Which was it?"

Emma Greville said: "The right elbow."

Mr Daw said: "If there was any contact it was Mr Giggs backing away to get away from your sister kicking him. There was no deliberate elbowing of you."

Emma Greville said: "There was."

Mr Daw asks Emma Greville about the lead up to the first alleged assault

He said: "Do you remember an argument between Kate and Ryan in the hallway about him wanting his phone back?"

Emma Greville said: "I don't remember. They were arguing about the dog in the hallway. We were saying goodbye to the dog at that point."

Mr Daw saide: "He was making the point it wasn't Kate's dog, it was him and his family's dog."

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Do you agree there was an argument about the phone as well?"

Emma Greville said: "I could not say."

Mr Daw said: "Can you recall whether your sister had her own phone in her hand during an argument immediately before they end up in the doorway of the room?"

Emma Greville said: "I remember them reaching for the phone and Kate grabbing it before Ryan can, yes."

The barrister recounts Emma Greville's account of the scuffle between Kate Greville and Giggs

He said: "Do you remember when Mr Giggs first physically tried to grab the phone?"

Emma Greville said: "When it was on top of the bag."

Mr Daw said: "Do you remember there being a tug of war over the phone?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes but I had left by that point… with the dog." The witness said she didn't see how Giggs ended up on top of Kate Greville.

Mr Daw asked if she saw Giggs body halfway down Kate Greville's body and his head was by her waist.

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw said when Giggs returned to the house on November 1, 2020, after Kate Greville had already arrived, he said his client took the bags and carried them to the gate.

Emma Greville agreed

He said: "Was he continually telling her to leave?"

She said: "I couldn't confirm or deny."

Mr Daw said: "Did he ask her to give him his phone back?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes but she didn't have her phone."

Mr Daw said: "Did you learn she in fact had his phone?"

Emma Greville said: "She never had the phone, that's what I’ve been told."

The barrister asked if she was aware Mr Giggs had asked his neighbour to call the police.

Emma Greville said: "He didn't tell me that, he told me on the way back but not before he did it."

The witness said she believed Mr Giggs had blood on his lip when he went to the neighbour's house. The barrister claimed that wasn't the case and he hadn't suffered injury by that stage.

Mr Daw asks about Giggs’ and Kate Greville

He said: "Was Kate in any fit state to drive that night?"

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw said: "Was there any discussion about how you would drive if Kate wasn't fit to do so?"

Emma Greville said: "I would drive. I had driven that car many times."

Mr Daw said: "You described the dog as Kate's dog and she's very keen to claim that dog as her own."

Emma Greville said: "As it was bought for her yes."

Mr Daw said: "That was something you had been told by Kate."

Emma Greville said: "Yes and Ryan."

Mr Daw said: "Were you aware (Giggs’) two children were fond of the dog?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Were you aware Mr Giggs had paid for and bought the dog? Were you aware they had driven to Scotland to collect the puppy?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Were you aware Mr Giggs had registered, chipped and insured the dog in her name?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Could you see the dog couldn't have lived with Kate because her flatmate said no?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes."

Mr Daw said: "Did Mr Giggs and his children have a keen interest in that dog?"

Emma Greville said: "As much as Kate and I did… I spent more time with that dog than Ryan and his children, I took the dogs to the vets when it was poorly, I took it for walks."

Mr Daw continued his cross examination.

He said: "Did she tell you she was planning some kind of attack on Mr Giggs while in the process of leaving him?"

Emma Greville said: "Define the question?...You mean in leaving him?... No."

Mr Daw said: "Did she tell you she was having her coil removed?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes I was taking her to the appointment."

Mr Daw said: "Did you say she was going to leave him because he was cheating?"

Emma Greville said: "I don't know dates."

Mr Daw said: "Did you tell your boyfriend (Kate Greville) had her coil removed to get pregnant?"

Emma Greville said: "I don't recall."

Mr Daw said: "Did she tell you she told Mr Giggs she had cancerous cells?"

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw said: "Did she tell you she had a plan to extract money from Mr Giggs?"

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw said: "Did she tell you she created a false profile to send messages to herself?"

Emma Greville said: "No."

Mr Daw asks Emma Greville if she was aware Mr Giggs had cheated on her sister

He said: "Did she say she had looked on Mr Giggs’ phone and found evidence he had cheated on her."

The witness said: "Not that I recall. She’d tell me bits but not tell me full stories."

Mr Daw asked if Kate Greville told her she was angry with Mr Giggs for

Emma Greville said: "There was many instances she told me different bits about the relationship but I can't say a certain situation.

"The occasions I remember was when she was on holiday and it blew up them and when we went to get our nails done at Ryan's sister and she found out some information."

Mr Daw asks if Kate Greille told her she was going to leave Mr Giggs.

Emma Greville said: "Yes she said she was planning on leaving Ryan and that's why she got the flat."

Mr Daw said: "Did she say she was leaving him because she had found out he was cheating on her with other women?"

Emma Greville said: "That wasn't a new thing, she had known about that but new information kept coming out all the time."

Mr Daw said: "Did Kate tell you she found incriminating evidence about other women on his iPad?"

Emma Greville said: "She had mentioned about an iPad."

Judge Manley and the jury have returned to court and the trial is back underway.

Christopher Daw QC begins his cross examination of Emma Greville.

He asked if the witness was a regular visitor and overnight visitor to Mr Giggs’ home. She agreed.

The barrister refers to What'sApp messages seen between Giggs and Kate Greville during the course of their relationship.

The messages from Kate Greville states "Thank you for looking after Emma" "Silks is being a b***end again".

She forwarded a screenshot of messages between Kate and Emma Greville in which Kate Greville told Emma Greville "Block him and never speak to him again, he's playing with your emotions and trying to control you". Emma Greville said "Silks can't get over with what I’ve done last Saturday". Kate Greville told Emma Greville "Be firm with him, it will shock him to s***".

Mr Daw says Silks was Emma Greville's former partner and claims it was revealed he was caught selling stories to the press about Mr Giggs and Kate Greville.

The barrister said Mr Giggs sent a video to Kate Greville of him and Emma Greville in his home watching television, while Kate Greville was on holiday.

He asks if Kate Greville was a regular traveller abroad. The witness agrees.

Mr Wright has finished his questioning of Emma Greville.

Mr Giggs’ barrister Mr Daw asks for time to take instructions from his client and asks for an early lunch break.

Judge Manley sends the jury away until 1.50pm when the trial will resume with Mr Daw's cross examination of the witness.

Emma Greville said Mr Giggs tried to persuade her not to call the police, asking her to think about his daughter and his career.

Emma Greville said: "(Kate) was screaming, she wasn't talking, just screaming. Kate said to me ‘Call the police’."

Mr Wright said: "So did you?"

Emma Greville said: "I did. (Giggs) said ‘Don't call the police, think about my daughter, think about my career’. I can't remember my exact words but did what I was told and called the police."

Mr Wright said: "When he said those things, what state was he in then?"

Emma Greville said: "He was at that point a lot calmer. He just said the police were on their way and that was why I was confused about why he didn't want me to call the police…

"I called the police and told them what had happened. (Giggs) was still in the room at that point but during the call he was in and out the room."

Mr Wright said: "Was he responding?"

Emma Greville said: "He was still trying to talk to me while I was on the phone to the police, to think about him and to think about Kate and her career. He tried to persuade us not to call the police because it would be in all the newspapers."

Mr Wright said: "Did you call the police once or twice?"

Emma Greville said: "All I can recall is having one conversation, I couldn't tell you. I think I called them back and told them they needed to hurry up.

"I stayed on the phone, I felt safer if the police were on the phone and anything else happened. I left to follow Ryan, at one point he was in the kitchen, got a drink, put it down and I said to police ‘He's leaving, he's doing a runner’. I followed him to the gate but didn't want to leave Kate.

"I presumed he still had Kate's phone and I haven't seen it since."

The witness said she did not see police arrive but saw the police drive past and told them they had gone the wrong way.She met with officers on the driveway, spoke to them and returned to the house with them.

Emma Greville describes the alleged assault by Giggs on Kate Greville.

She said: "At that moment he put both hands on Kate's shoulders and with lots of force used his head to headbutt her in her lip."

Mr Wright said: "Did there appear to be any reason for that?"

Emma Greville said: "Afterwards he told me it was my fault he had headbutted Kate and turned to me and said ‘I’ll headbutt you next’.

"(He was) extremely angry. I felt fear as he had just headbutted Kate so why wouldn't he do the same to me?"

Mr Wright said: "What was the effect of the headbutt on Kate?"

Emma Greville said: "She fell to the ground screaming and covering her face. He walked towards the kitchen and didn't say much."

Mr Wright said: "Did he seek to explain why he had done it?"

Emma Greville said: "He said because of me, because of what I said. About saying I saw him on top of Kate… He said I was a liar."

Emma Greville said she next saw Kate in the kitchen when she and Giggs were arguing again.

She said: "The taxi did arrive but as we did not get in the taxi the taxi left and I was charged £5. Kate was not leaving without her phone - Ryan had it in his back pocket.

"When I walked into the kitchen all I remember is Kate trying to reach round to his pocket to get her phone and her saying to me ‘Emma, try and reach my phone’.. I did not try to reach Kate's phone after being elbowed, I did not want to put myself in that position again.

"Ryan's back was up against the wall and Kate was facing him. (The phone) was still in his back pocket. They were arguing about the phone and I said to Ryan ‘Just give her phone back, you’ve got her phone and we’ll go.

"I also said to him ‘I also saw you on top of her grabbing her phone so I know you have her phone’. He called me a f****** liar.

"At that point Kate said to Ryan ‘See I have proof’ meaning she knew I had seen what had happened. At that point he didn't say anything that I recall."

Mr Wright said: "What state was he in?"

Emma Greville said: "He had gone from annoyed to extremely angry… I think I asked him ‘Why?’." She said she couldn't recall what he said back

Emma Greville said she told her parents what had happened to her and Kate Greville and asked them for advice on what to do.

She added: "After speaking to them, both me and Ryan were moving Kate's stuff out of the house."

Mr Wright said: "What arrangements were there about what was going to happen with the stuff and yourself?"

Emma Greville said: "We were getting a taxi back to Kate's flat in Manchester." The witness said she had made the arrangements herself."

She said when the initial plans were made, they were going to leave in Kate Greville's car.

She said: "He was moving them beside the front door and also to the front gate. He was saying he was disappointed in me and saying ‘I know she's your sister’. That's all I can recall exactly."

Mr Wright said: "Did he say anything about what had happened to you?"

Emma Greville said: "He didn't mention it once but he could see I was visibly upset."

She was asked what she did

The witness said: "I was helping him, the taxi was on its way and I was ready to go. Ryan had told me and Kate the police had been called so they were also on their way. After they had had the scuffle on the floor he went across to his neighbour. He told us she was calling the police."

Emma Greville described the moment Giggs allegedly assaulted her.

She said: "I was in shock… I left the room to check the dog was ok."

She added: "I felt in a situation where something more was going on in the other room. I could hear shouting and arguing and scuffling round.

"I went into the hallway and saw Ryan's legs sticking out of the boot room into the hallway…

"I walked from where I was standing into the boot room to see Kate lying on her back and Ryan lying on top of her. Ryan was trying to grab Kate's phone from her."

Mr Wright said: "Was she saying anything?"

Emma Greville said: "I can't recall exactly what she was saying but from her facial expressions I could tell she was in pain."

The witness said Giggs was reaching for her phone above Kate Greville's head.

Emma Greville said: "I was not aware he had her phone at that time."

Mr Wright said: "What did you do?"

Emma Greville said: "Kate said to me ‘Get him off me’. I put both my arms around his waist and as Kate was using her legs to push him off I was pulling.

"As I was pulling him we were standing upright in the doorway, he turned to his right and his elbow touched my jaw and as a result I let go.

"(It) wasn't in a gentle manner, it was a ‘Get off me’ manner, for me to get off holding Ryan."

Mr Wright said: "Did there appear to be a reason?"

Emma Greville said: "Kate said to me he had the phone so I presumed it was because he wanted me off him."

Mr Wright said: "What was the effect of this contact?"

Emma Greville said: "Shocked, upset, I immediately called my parents… It was force, it was a force to make me remove my hands from around him. (Kate) said ‘He has my phone’."

The prosecutor asked: "What happened?"

Emma Greville said: "They began arguing about leaving saying that we needed to leave. And we weren't allowed to take the dog with us.

"I took the dog into the other room, into the kitchen because I wanted to remove him from the situation.

"At that stage (the argument) was regarding a phone., Ryan's phone, Ryan accused Kate of having his phone."

Mr Wright said: "What was her response to that accusation?"

Emma Greville said: "She said she did not have her phone on her. He did not believe her, he was angry."

The witness said she remained in the kitchen and could hear shouting but was concentrating on the dog and making sure he was ok.

She added: "After some time I went back into the hallway and Ryan was taking Kate's stuff into the hallway."

Mr Wright said: "What then happened?"

Emma Greville said: "Ryan put Kate's handbag on the floor next to her, with her phone on top of the bag. He was telling us to go, telling us to leave.

"Ryan turned to Kate and said ‘If I don't have my phone, you’re not having yours’. At the same time, both of them grabbed the bag to get the phone.

"Kate had the phone in her hand, she grabbed it before he did and they were then in physical contact with each other, Ryan trying to grab Kate's phone off her.

"(He was) angry… (Kate) was upset."

The witness said she was five metres away as this took place.

Emma Greville said Kate arrived at the house 10 minutes after receiving the text to pack her things.

The witness said: "(Kate) was very upset."

Mr Wright said: "Had you been drinking that evening?

Emma Greville said: "No I had not."

Mr Wright said: "Did it appear to you Kate had been drinking?"

Emma Greville said: "Correct. She had a drink, she wasn't stumbling. Visibly she was upset and emotional, but she was emotional because she’d had a drink.

"She just told me she had confronted him about him cheating but we didn't elaborate because we had a quick time scale we wanted to get out of the house."

Mr Wright said: "Did you manage to get out of the house?"

Emma Greville said: "No, Ryan turned up." She said he got to the house about 15 to 20 minutes after Kate arrived.

She said: "He was not happy. He wasn't smiling, was in a visible mood. He was also very drunk. (Kate) was upset, still upset."

Mr Wright said: "What did you do?

Emma Greville said: "They started arguing and I went upstairs and I sat in the bedroom. I used to stay in out of the way."

Mr Wright said: "Could you hear anything in the bedroom?"

Emma Greville said: "I could hear voices but not what they were saying… Loud but not audible."

Mr Wright said: "Did anyone come to the bedroom?"

Emma Greville said: "Yes Ryan came in the bedroom and told me to go downstairs and sort out my sister. (He) was the same as when he came back, annoyed…

"I went downstairs to find Kate in the hallway, hugging the dog, upset, crying.

"Ryan then said ‘Say your goodbyes to the dog, you’ll never see him again’. He said that to me and Kate. (He said) it in a snide manner, that he had the power and could keep the dog when he knew it was Kate's."

Emma Greville is asked about the alleged assaults on herself and her sister Kate Greville.

Mr Wright said: "You were at Ryan's flat."

Emma Greville said: "I was living in Kate's flat in the middle of Manchester but when they needed me to look after the dog, I stayed at Ryan's house."

Mr Wright said: "Whilst you were out did you receive a phone call?

Emma Greville said: "Yes, saying they were finally on their way to the Stock Exchange hotel."

Mr Wright said: "How did she seem?"

Emma Greville said: "She was a bit annoyed as they were meant to leave earlier but Ryan had been out all day drinking. She was happy but mentioned on the phone to me she was a bit annoyed they were late."

Mr Wright said: "Later that evening did you receive any sort of communication from Kate?"

Emma Greville said: "I was messaging her and sent a picture of Mac [the dog]."

The witness said she later received another message from her sister.

She said: "I received a message saying ‘Pack my stuff in the car, we are leaving tonight’." She said it was roughly 9pm or 10pm.

Mr Wright said: "What did you do?"

Emma Greville said: "Started packing her stuff and putting it in the car. I was putting it by the car because there was a lot of stuff, stage by stage. Ryan was trying to call me, more than once. I was already on another phone call to my boyfriend at the time."