The jury in the Ryan Giggs trial has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict.

The former Manchester United footballer stood trial accused of coercive control and attacking his ex-girlfriend as well as assaulting her sister.

The 12-member jury was sent out to consider its verdicts on Tuesday August 23rd; however, one juror was later discharged due to illness.

After the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, they were told a decision on which at least ten agreed would be accepted.

Today, the jury of seven women and four men said they had failed to agree verdicts on any of the charges against the 48-year-old.

Giggs was accused of assaulting his former partner Kate Greville, causing actual bodily harm, and using controlling and coercive behaviour against her from August 2017 to November 2020.

He was also charged with the common assault of Ms Greville's younger sister, Emma.

The court heard the ex-Wales manager was accused of deliberately headbutting Ms Greville at his home in Manchester on the evening of November 1st 2020.

Ms Greville alleged that Giggs put his hands on her shoulders, looked her "straight in the eyes" and headbutted her in the face, causing her lip to bleed.

He sister Emma Greville claimed she was elbowed in the jaw by Giggs after she had earlier tried to get the footballer off her sister, and that he had threatened to headbutt her.

However, Giggs told the jury at Manchester Crown Court that he and Kate Greville had accidentally "clashed heads" during a "sort of tug-of-war" over a mobile phone.

He denied deliberately elbowing her sister or threatening to headbutt her, and broke down in tears in court as he described his night in a police cell after his arrest as the "worst experience" of his life.

Reporting from IRN