The fact has caught up with Ryan Giggs and it’s his time to “pay the price”, a court docket has heard – as a prosecutor’s questioning of the footballer was in comparison with “blood sport”.
Jurors are set to retire to think about their verdicts within the former Manchester United star’s trial on Tuesday morning after the prosecution and defence delivered their closing speeches.
Giggs is accused of utilizing controlling and coercive behaviour in opposition to his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville, in addition to assaulting her and sister Emma.
He denies the costs in opposition to him.
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Addressing the jury on Monday, prosecutor Peter Wright QC mentioned the case was in regards to the “abuse of power of a man over another human being” and it was “a tale which is as old as the hills”.
He instructed the jury that when Giggs was “angered” he “could and would resort to aggression”.
“His ultimate trump card was physical domination,” Mr Wright mentioned.
The prosecutor alleged that Giggs would “beat” and “physically abuse” Ms Greville and when “riled” he would ship “hate-filled outbursts of bile” to “the very same woman moments earlier he had professed to love and care for”.
“The reality is the truth has caught up with him and now it’s time… it’s his time to pay the price,” Mr Wright mentioned.
Giggs’s ex accused of telling ‘so many lies’
Delivering the defence’s closing speech, Giggs’ barrister Chris Daw QC mentioned the prosecutor’s questioning of the previous footballer in the course of the trial was nearly “a form of blood sport”.
He described Mr Wright as “one of the leading prosecution barristers of the last 40 years” and prompt Giggs was “like a rabbit in the headlights” who was embarrassed to confess he didn’t perceive among the questions.
Mr Daw mentioned it was “no more an equal match up than putting Mr Wright in goal against Mr Giggs at his footballing peak”.
The defence barrister mentioned his consumer was not on trial for being an “adulterer”, a “liar, a “cheat” or a “no good heartbreaker”, referring to an Aretha Franklin lyric.
He accused Kate Greville of telling “so many lies” including that she “had most cancers, in impact”.
The court has previously heard Ms Greville lied to Giggs that a smear test had shown “cancerous cells” and she was in fact going to an appointment to get her coil removed.
“It’s a fairly manipulative lie to inform,” Mr Daw added.
‘Put apart any emotions of sympathy’
The defence barrister requested the jury to think about if Ms Greville is somebody “who’s capable of manipulation” and somebody “who’s capable of twisting reality to her own ends”.
Earlier, Judge Hillary Manley started her summing up within the case and mentioned each Giggs and Ms Greville have been “distressed” at factors of their proof in the course of the trial.
She instructed the jury: “Put aside any feelings of sympathy for one person or another, or both.
“You don’t strive a case on sympathy.”
Jurors requested to re-watch CCTV footage from Giggs’s property on the night time of the alleged assaults, with recordings of 999 calls made by Ms Greville’s sister performed in sync with the video.
The court docket additionally heard that 19,671 messages had been exchanged between Giggs and Ms Greville, sufficient to fill 56 lever arch recordsdata.
The trial at Manchester Crown Court was adjourned till Tuesday morning when the decide will end her summing up earlier than the jury retires to think about its verdicts.
Source: information.sky.com”