{"id":99697,"date":"2022-08-08T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ryan-giggs-trial-sir-alex-ferguson-and-gary-neville-to-appear-in-court-during-hearing"},"modified":"2022-08-08T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:48:29","slug":"ryan-giggs-trial-sir-alex-ferguson-and-gary-neville-to-appear-in-court-during-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ryan-giggs-trial-sir-alex-ferguson-and-gary-neville-to-appear-in-court-during-hearing","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Giggs trial: Sir Alex Ferguson and Gary Neville to appear in court during hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Alex Ferguson and Gary Neville are set to appear in court as character witnesses for Ryan Giggs , who is on trial accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour and assault. The trial, which is expected to last around 10 days, began on Monday at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, where seven men and five women were sworn in as jurors. Chris Daw QC read a list of people due to feature in the trial which included legendary manager Ferguson, who personally persuaded a 14-year-old Giggs to sign with Manchester United in 1987, where the Welshman spent the entirity of his glittering career alongside teammate and eventual captain Neville. Giggs, 48, is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville, 36, between August 2017 and November 2020. He is also charged with assaulting Ms Greville, causing her actual bodily harm, and of the common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville, at his home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Alex Ferguson and Gary Neville are set to appear in court as character witnesses for Ryan Giggs, who is on trial accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,8],"class_list":["post-99697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}