Prosecutor says former footballer must ‘pay price’ for alleged assault of ex-girlfriend and coercive behaviour
Ryan Giggs hid an aggressive and volatile side to his personality for years but “the truth has caught up with him” and he must “pay the price”, a jury has been told.
In a closing speech to the jury on Monday, Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said there were “two very different Ryan Giggses” – the one who is “exposed for public consumption and the Ryan Giggs who exists on occasion behind closed doors”. “It’s about what he’s not known for, what he’s hidden beneath the surface of this character, and of his character, and it’s about the abuse of power by a man over another woman,” Wright said.
“The basis of which he operated disintegrated before his very eyes and the private persona of Ryan Giggs was exposed to public scrutiny,” he said. “The truth had caught up with him and now it’s time, it’s his time, to pay the price.” Chris Daw QC, for Giggs, said the prosecution had put its case against the defendant in “a very extreme way” and portrayed him as “violent, coercive and controlling to the core”.
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