THE ex-girlfriend of former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has told a court she became “a slave to his every need” and that he was “regularly aggressive”.

Giving evidence on the third day of Giggs’s assault trial, Kate Greville said he exerted control over her social life and the end of their six-year relationship was “pretty much relentlessly awful”.

She told jurors that the former Wales manager “made me feel like I had to do what he said, otherwise there were consequences”.

Giggs, 48, denies using controlling and coercive behaviour against Greville, 36, between August 2017 and November 2020, assaulting her, causing actual bodily harm, and the common assault of her younger sister, Emma.

Giving evidence from behind a screen, Greville said Giggs “isolated me from certain people” and “interfered with my ability to interact with my family and elements of my social life”.

Greville told the jury she initially thought of Giggs as a “knight in shining armour” who had come to save her from her troubled marriage. She said Giggs was“nice”for the majority of their relationship but that he “turned” when they moved in together before the Covid-19 pandemic.

“He was aggressive regularly,” she told the jury. “It wasn’t constant violence. There wasn’t regular violence but there were times in our relationship when he was violent.”

Giggs denies one count of assaulting Greville by head-butting her during an argument at their home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, in November 2020.

He also disputes her account of an incident in which he is alleged to have dragged Greville out of their Dubai hotel room while she was naked following an argument about who he was messaging.