Benjamin Mendy found not guilty of six counts of rape

[MenInG]

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has appeared in court to face a new allegation of attempted rape.

The 27-year-old appeared in the dock at Chester Crown Court, where a judge ruled that the new charge the France international faces can now be reported.

Mendy now faces nine charges in all, including seven counts of rape involving six alleged victims.

At the pre-trial hearing, Judge Patrick Thompson urged lawyers to ensure there is no delay and that the case will be ready as he set a date for a trial, estimated to last up to six weeks, starting on July 25.

He said: "It's not fair on the complainants and not fair on the defendants.

"I'm conscious of the fact that the complainants have already suffered significant delay.

"Say, for example, Mr Mendy, his career is on hold. Everyone has got to understand Mr Mendy can't go to work. This matter needs to be tried."

The defendant, wearing a dark grey suit, white shirt and black tie, spoke only to confirm his identity and leaned his head towards a French interpreter who sat between him and his co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie.

Judge Thompson set a further pre-trial hearing for March 11.

Mendy, of Withinlee Road, Prestbury, Cheshire, is accused of nine offences relating to six alleged victims.

They include seven counts of rape relating to four women, one of sexual assault and the latest charge, one of attempted rape involving a new complainant.

Matturie, 40, of Eccles, Salford, is accused of 10 offences, involving seven women, including seven counts of rape relating to five women and three of sexual assault.

All the charges span from late 2020 to August 2021. None of the women involved can be identified by law as complainants of sexual offences.

Both defendants were given bail in January after being in custody since both were first arrested on August 26 last year.

At the end of Wednesday's 90-minute hearing, Judge Thompson told both defendants: "You will next be required to attend on Friday the 11th of March.

"You both have your bail on conditions as before."

Mendy nodded and replied: "OK."

Mendy has played for Manchester City since 2017, when he joined from Monaco for £49.3m.

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Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy pleads not guilty to rapes

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has entered not guilty pleas to nine charges of sexual offences against six women.

Mendy, 27, of Prestbury, Cheshire, denied all the charges, which include seven of rape, at Chester Crown Court.

The French international is also accused of sexual assault and attempted rape.

The offences are alleged to have taken place at his home between October 2018 and August 2021.

The defender is due to face trial at the court on 25 July.

Hi co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, of Eccles in Salford, also entered not guilty pleas to 12 charges.

The 40-year-old denied eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault, relating to alleged attacks on eight women between July 2012 to August 2021.

Both men remain on bail.

Mendy, who has made 50 Premier League appearances for Manchester City since joining from Monaco in 2017 and has 10 international caps for France, was suspended by the club after being charged.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-61553299

 

[MenInG]

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been charged with another count of rape.

The 27-year-old is now accused of eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape after a new complainant came forward.

Mr Mendy pleaded not guilty last month to all but the latest charge, which has not yet been put to him.

The details of the latest charge can be published after a reporting restriction was lifted at Chester Crown Court.

All of the offences are alleged to have taken place at Mr Mendy's home between October 2018 and August 2021.

Mr Mendy, from Prestbury in Cheshire, will go on trial on 25 July along with his co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 40, who has also entered not guilty pleas.

Mr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault, relating to eight young women, between July 2012 and August 2021.

Both men remain on bail ahead of the trial next month.

Mr Mendy, who has made 50 Premier League appearances for Manchester City since joining from Monaco in 2017 and has 10 international caps for France, was suspended by the club after being charged.

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[James]

Mendy could be looking at a life sentence here.

 

[Kroll]

Mendy could be looking at a life sentence here.

The two Manchester clubs have had some right monsters play for them recently.

 

[MenInG]

The Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy raped women in locked “panic rooms” in his isolated mansion from which they believed they could not escape, a court has heard.

The 28-year-old French international defender abused his wealth and fame to lure women back to his gated Cheshire home and rape them when they either said no or were too drunk to consent, a jury at Chester crown court heard on Monday.

The court heard he found many of the women in Manchester nightclubs, often with the help of his “fixer”, a 41-year-old called Louis Saha Matturie, known as Saha, who is on trial alongside him charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault.

The pair are accused of showing “callous indifference” to the 13 young women they allegedly attacked. The sexual conquest of young women became “a game”, the court heard.

Opening the case, prosecutor Timothy Cray told the jury that Mendy was a “reasonably famous” footballer at the time of the offences.

“He had a contract with Man City and he was a World Cup winner with the French national team,” Cray said. “And these days fame brings attention. Fame also brings money. And because of this, Mendy’s wealth and status, others were prepared to help him to get what he wanted.”

One of Saha’s jobs was “to find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted,” Cray added.

The men had a joint purpose, the court heard. “In their minds, and we say this could not be clearer, the stream of women they brought to their homes existed to them purely to be pursued for sex,” Cray added.

Two of the women told police they were “passed between” both men at parties at Mendy’s multimillion-pound mansion. Five said they were raped or sexually assaulted solely by Mendy and six solely by Saha. The men deny all 22 charges brought against them.

The alleged offences by Mendy are said to have taken place at his gated mansion in the hamlet of Mottram St Andrew near Macclesfield, between October 2018 and 2021. The nearest town, Prestbury, was a 15-minute walk along an unlit country lane, the jury heard.

“It was isolated, about 17 miles south of the centre of Manchester as the crow flies, but if you turned up there and you had never been there and the big old gates locked behind you, you may well have felt that you were vulnerable,” Cray told the jury, before showing them drone footage of the semi-rural location.

One of the complainants had to ask the housekeeper to let her out of the locked mansion gates after her alleged ordeal, the jury heard.

Some of the women told police they had their phones taken off them on arrival. Ostensibly this was to protect Mendy and others from unwanted social media intrusion, but it also left them unable to call for help, the court heard.

One of the women said she had gone to Mendy’s house to meet another man and made it clear she was not there to have sex with the footballer, but he attempted to rape her regardless, the court heard.

Another told detectives she was on her period when she was raped. One woman, who accuses both men of rape, was 17 at the time. One, the court heard, was sexually assaulted when “more or less minding her own business in Mendy’s kitchen”.

Two of the women said Mendy raped them in locked rooms – an office and the main bedroom. The jury was shown video footage showing a police officer demonstrating the locks on the doors, as Cray explained they were legitimately used by wealthy individuals.

“The logic is that if you are likely to be a target for burglars, the locks in effect create a panic room that you can’t get in from the outside, but you can open them from the inside if you know what to do. The point is that you have to know how to open them from the inside, and you’ll perhaps see how the witnesses might have gotten the impression … that they are locked in,” said Cray.

Both men knew what they were doing, Cray said. “They were not in some happy state of sexual ignorance about how this all works – they knew very well what they were doing. They turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game, in effect, and if women got hurt or distressed – too bad. Make it go away.”

He added: “In this day and age, no one can doubt, can they, to use the common saying, that ‘no means no’. That’s no longer some sort of grey area, or some sort of an open door for a man to push through regardless … In this day and age, no one can doubt, you don’t lose that right because you’ve been to a bar or dressed for a nightclub or gone to a footballer’s house and you are partying.”

The prosecutor told the jury that the defendants were likely to argue that the women alleging rape and sexual assault “consented to sex willingly, often enthusiastically”, said Cray.

The trial continues.

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Benjamin Mendy: Women disposable to 'predator' footballer, jury told

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy is a "predator" who "turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game", a court has heard.

The 28-year-old is accused of eight counts of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault.

Opening the case, Timothy Cray QC said it had "very little to do with football" and more about men who "think they are powerful".

He said the women were "disposable" to Mr Mendy.

Chester Crown Court heard the offences against seven young women are alleged to have taken place at Mr Mendy's "isolated mansion" home between October 2018 and August 2021.

Some women said they had their mobile phones taken away, while others said they were attacked in locked rooms.

The court was told Mr Mendy raped three women in the same night following a pool party at his mansion and a trip to Manchester's China White nightclub.

The jury heard that one woman was drunk and remembered being in the swimming pool, with her next recollection being face down on a sofa being raped in the living room with her arms held behind her back.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-62548845

 

[James]

This stuff is seriously crazy.

 

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Benjamin Mendy boasted of sex with 10,000 women, jury told

A woman who said she was raped by footballer Benjamin Mendy has told a court he boasted about having had sex with 10,000 women after attacking her.

Mr Mendy, 28, has denied eight counts of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault.

The woman told Chester Crown Court the attack, which jurors heard had left her bleeding, lasted about 15 minutes but "felt like the longest day of my life".

She added the "hardest thing that makes me upset is how many times I said no".

The jury was told the woman was invited back to the Manchester City player's home for a party with her three friends in October 2020, after they met at a bar in Alderley Edge.

She said the French international, of Prestbury, Cheshire, took her phone and found private messages on her Snapchat account, before going upstairs.

The 20-year-old woman told the court she had followed him, asking for her phone back, but he went through a double door, which she said had a secure lock like a hotel bedroom.

The woman told the court that she said to the footballer: "Listen, I want my phone, I don't know what you think is going on. I don't want sex with you."

To which she said he replied: "The door is locked anyway."

The jury was told the footballer asked her to undress, stating that he just wanted to see her body.

She said she had felt that was "the lesser of two evils" and that she had been scared because she did not know what he could do.

She said he threw her phone on the bed and when she reached for it, he began forcing himself on her.

The jury was told she repeatedly said she did not want to have sex with him.

She said he raped her three times, which lasted about 15 minutes, but "felt like the longest day of my life", adding that the "hardest thing that makes me upset is how many times I said no".

She told the court: "My body was so tense. It was just this pain."

She said after being attacked, Mr Mendy boasted about having had sex with 10,000 women and told her not to tell anyone about what had happened.

The court was told Mr Mendy left the woman bleeding, then said to her: "Don't tell anyone and you can come over here every night," like it was a "privilege" to have sex with him.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-62588504

 

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Seems like an overconfident and arrogant guy.

He probably thought he wouldn't get caught. Hopefully justice will be served.

 

[James]

Disgusting subhuman behaviour.

Hopefully he goes to prison for a very long time and gets his just desserts in the end.

 

[Junaids]

He’s overwhelmingly likely to be convicted, but he may also set the record for the longest sentence in British history for a convicted rapist.

Joseph McCann got 33 life sentences with a minimum term of 30 years. But the level of premeditation we are hearing about in this case means that the sentence will be pretty hefty.

 

[MenInG]

Disgusting subhuman behaviour.

Hopefully he goes to prison for a very long time and gets his just desserts in the end.

His final destination is with the Almighty where what he gets in jail will be nothing

 

[James]

His final destination is with the Almighty where what he gets in jail will be nothing

Depends on how he gets treated in the showers!

 

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Benjamin Mendy: Accusers were in WhatsApp group, court hears

A woman who has accused footballer Benjamin Mendy of rape was in a WhatsApp group with another alleged sex assault victim who wanted to sue Manchester City, a court has heard.

The woman says she was raped by Mr Mendy at his home in 2020, where she alleges he boasted about having had sex with 10,000 women.

She denied trying to "minimise" knowing another woman who alleged she was sexually assaulted by the footballer.

He is accused of eight counts of rape.

The 28-year-old French international is also accused of one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault.

Some women have said they had their phones taken away, while others described attacks in locked rooms at his mansion in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire.

On Thursday the jury at Chester Crown Court heard how one woman said she was raped by Mr Mendy three times and was left bleeding from the attack in October 2020.

She added the "hardest thing that makes me upset is how many times I said no".

Another complainant, aged 24 at the time, alleges that on 2 January 2021, the footballer sexually assaulted her by grabbing her groin over her clothing at a party at his house.

Under cross-examination by Eleanor Laws QC, defending Mr Mendy, the first woman denied trying to "minimise" knowing the other complainant.

The court heard how she said the two women had a mutual friend and told police in a statement: "I think I may have met her once but cannot be sure."

The woman told the jury she reported her rape allegation to police in November 2020 and found out about the groping allegation by the other woman in February 2021.

She said she had to take two months off work due to the trauma of reliving her own experience.

The other woman then went to police shortly after the two women were in contact in the February, the court heard.

Ms Laws said: "After she found out about each other's allegations she goes to police two days later.

"Has she ever discussed with you because of what happened, she wanted to sue Manchester City for what happened to her?"

The woman replied: "I don't remember."

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-62597631

 

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Benjamin Mendy: Court hears account from a friend of the victim of an alleged attack by Man City player

A young woman "looked like she had seen a ghost" moments after emerging from a bedroom where footballer Benjamin Mendy allegedly raped her three times, her friend has told a court.

The friend said she had gone to look for the 20-year-old, who she regarded "like a sister", after she had gone missing with Mendy for around 20 minutes during a party at the Manchester City defender's mansion in Cheshire.

The witness told Chester Crown Court she found her friend coming downstairs from an upstairs bedroom.

Timothy Cray QC, prosecuting Mendy, 28, who denies multiple sex assaults, asked the friend: "How did she look to you?"

The witness replied: "She looked like she had seen a ghost. She looked blank. She looked dead."

Moments later the rape complainant told her friend she was "very keen" to leave and go home, the trial heard.

When they got to her home, the 20-year-old told her friend she was "fine" and tried "brushing off" the incident, the witness said.

But she also talked about "being in a situation where you don't want to do something, feel pressured so you just go along with something", the friend told the jury.

She said that the morning after, the complainant said Mendy had promised not to touch her if she stripped while he looked at her, but then "forced" her down on a bed and raped her.

Earlier the court heard both young women had been among a group of four friends who went back to Mendy's home, The Spinney in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, after drinks at a nearby bar on October 11, 2020.

The girls had been told not to use their phones at Mendy's home due to sensitivities to social media photos and posts, and worries about gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The 20-year-old woman had been scrolling through her phone near a swimming pool when he came over and "snatched" the phone from her to check if she had been taking pictures and posting to social media, the court has been told.

She said she asked for it back but the footballer led her to an upstairs bedroom where the alleged sex attack took place despite her telling him she did not want sex.

Prosecutors allege Mendy is a "predator" who "turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game".

Mendy denies eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against seven young women.

https://www.skysports.com/football/...ictim-of-an-alleged-attack-by-man-city-player

 

[James]

<b>Mendy grabbed woman’s groin at party</b>

<I>Benjamin Mendy's trial for eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault continued at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday; Mendy denies all 10 charges against him;
Warning: This article contains descriptions of a distressing nature</I>

A woman said she was "shocked" when Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy grabbed her groin during a party at his Cheshire mansion, a court has heard.

The alleged victim told Chester Crown Court the 28-year-old player was "really trying to grab" her between her legs as he passed her during the gathering at his home - The Spinney in Mottram St Andrew - in the early hours of January 2, 2021.

The woman said, moments after the alleged assault, the Manchester City left-back and former France international made a sexual gesture towards her, the jury was told.

She also alleged he told her she looked better when she smiled before she challenged him, prompting him to apologise, the court heard.

In an interview with police, played to the jury on Tuesday, the woman said: "He's sort of just grabbed my vagina and I just immediately stopped and thought 'What has just happened?'

She later added: "I was just shocked. I think I was just taken aback by it because I was just shocked and then realising what had just happened."



The court also heard she immediately went to a bathroom to smoke with her friend but found the door was locked.

She said her friend called for someone to unlock the door, and Mendy came to open it.

The woman said: "I went into the bathroom and we were facing each other ... and he's sort of gestured to giving me oral sex.

"I just sort of turned around and then my friend came in and I told her what happened and she was just shocked, as we both were, and I don't understand where that came from because there was minimal conversation."

She later explained: "He gestured as if he was licking us, put his tongue out as if he was licking me.

"I was just confused."

The court heard she and her friend considered leaving the party but chose to stay because they were "intoxicated".

Later, when the woman went to the swimming pool at the house with other party guests, she said she "tried to keep her distance" from Mendy, but claimed he approached her again.

She said: "He came right up close to my face and said 'You look better when you smile'."

The woman told a police interviewer the footballer asked why she was angry, to which she said she responded "because of how you touched me" or "because of what you did".

The woman claimed he began apologising before trying to "spud" - meaning bump his fist on hers - as a way of smoothing things over.

Mendy denies one count of sexual assault in relation to the incident.

He also denies eight counts of rape and one count of attempted rape against six other young women.

Co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, the footballer's friend and fixer, allegedly had the job of finding young women for sex.

Both men say if any sex did take place it was consensual.

The court has previously heard that one woman, who was 20 at the time of the alleged offences, claims she was raped three times by Mendy in October 2020.

Prosecutors allege Mendy is a "predator" who "turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game".

The trial continues.


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[MenInG]

A young woman told a court she went back to Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy's Cheshire mansion despite him allegedly raping her there.

Jurors trying Mendy at Chester Crown Court were also shown footage from a Manchester nightclub showing Mendy dancing on a table, with his trousers halfway down and his top off.

A month earlier the woman, aged 19 at the time, said she was raped by Mendy after visiting the same club, China White, and returning to his home in Mottram St Andrew, near Prestbury.

After spending time in the swimming pool, she went to a top floor bedroom to sleep and said she was awoken by Mendy raping her in the early hours of July 24, last year.

Under cross-examination, Eleanor Laws QC, defending Mendy, asked the woman: "You find it difficult to explain why you went back, not once, 10 times to a house you say you were raped in?

She replied: "I tried to block this out of my mind and forget about it."

Ms Laws suggested her account of what happened, waking up to find Mendy raping her, was the "exact same" allegation made by her friend, who the footballer is also accused of raping the same evening.

The witness was shown clips from mobile phones, CCTV footage and photos of her at Mendy's house on different days after the alleged rape, some of, it was suggested, showing her enjoying herself.

The witness replied: "Honestly, I have no respect for you as a woman to take that off my phone and play it in front of a room full of people."

Jurors were also shown CCTV from inside China White nightclub, at around 6am on August 23, with the woman dancing, wearing a white bikini top and Mendy also present.

This showed, Ms Laws suggested she was "perfectly comfortable" in his company.

The woman replied: "He was around. I was with my friend. That night he was so intoxicated he was falling over tables."

Another CCTV clip from the night showed Mendy dancing on a table in the club, with his trousers half-way down and his top off.

Ms Laws suggested when in drink people do things they would not normally do when sober.

She added: "You have assumed you can't have consented?"

"I didn't, OK?" the woman replied.

The woman said two or three months before the alleged rape, she had sex with Mendy, "like a one-night thing" but that time she was sober, and it was consensual.

She was contacted by police as a witness at first, but later made her own allegation against Mendy.

Timothy Cray QC, prosecuting, asked the woman: "Why did you decide to tell in the end?"

She replied: "I just thought it was the right thing to do, not just for myself. I'm not here to lie, I don't want to put myself through this."

Mr Cray continued: "What's being said is, if you had been raped you would not go back to the house?"

She said Mendy was "very rarely" at the house when she was present, and she was never alone with him there.

Mr Cray added: "Why did you go back to the house in August?"

She replied: "I just went with friends, just... I don't know."

Mendy denies the rape, along with the rape of two other young women over the same 24-hour period at his home.

He also denies five other counts of rape, one attempted rape and a sexual assault, all relating to seven young women, between October 2018 and August last year.

His co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault, relating to eight young women.

Prosecutors allege Mendy is a "predator" who turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game.

Matturie, 41, Mendy's friend and fixer, had the job of finding young women for sex, it is alleged.

Both men deny any offences and say if any sex did take place, it was consensual.

The trial was adjourned until Wednesday morning.

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[KingKhanWC]

^ Seems like these women are making up stories.

You dont return to a house 10 times if you were raped there.

If Mendy is found not guilty, those women should do at least 5 years behind bars.

 

[KingKhanWC]

His final destination is with the Almighty where what he gets in jail will be nothing

Depends on how he gets treated in the showers!

This is the sad reality of those who are accused of rape or abuse against women but may not be guilty. Such allegations if untrue can ruin a persons reputation even if not found guilty.

Footballers need to be careful, sine the MeToo movement so many fake accusations have been thrown around.

 

[MenInG]

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of one count of rape on the direction of the judge at his trial.

Mr Mendy, 28, was cleared at Chester Crown Court of the rape of a 19-year-old woman at his home in Prestbury, Cheshire, on 24 July last year.

Co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of two counts of rape against the same woman.

They remain on trial for alleged sexual offences which they both deny.

Mr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, was also cleared of one count of sexual assault against the same woman.

On Tuesday Judge Stephen Everett ordered the jury to clear the defendants of those counts after the prosecution offered no further evidence and formal not guilty counts were entered.

He had warned jurors not to speculate as to why the prosecution had decided not to pursue guilty verdicts and to continue to "faithfully" try the defendants on the multiple charges they still face.

Earlier the jury were told of a private video of the woman having "enthusiastic sex" with Mr Matturie when she claimed she had been raped.

The hearing was adjourned and when court resumed, prosecutors told the court they were no longer seeking guilty verdicts on alleged sexual offences involving the 19-year-old complainant.

The rape charge dropped against Mr Mendy related to an incident with Mr Matturie when the woman had claimed she awoke to find the footballer raping her.

'Predator'
Mr Mendy still faces seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.

Prosecutors have alleged Mr Mendy was a "predator" who "turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game".

Mr Matturie, the footballer's friend and fixer, is alleged to have had the job of finding young women for sex.

He denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.

Both men said if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.

The trial continues.

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Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of one count of rape on the direction of the judge at his trial.

Mr Mendy, 28, was cleared at Chester Crown Court of the rape of a 19-year-old woman at his home in Prestbury, Cheshire, on 24 July last year.

Co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of two counts of rape against the same woman.

They remain on trial for alleged sexual offences which they both deny.

Mr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, was also cleared of one count of sexual assault against the same woman.

On Tuesday Judge Stephen Everett ordered the jury to clear the defendants of those counts after the prosecution offered no further evidence and formal not guilty counts were entered.

He had warned jurors not to speculate as to why the prosecution had decided not to pursue guilty verdicts and to continue to "faithfully" try the defendants on the multiple charges they still face.

Earlier the jury were told of a private video of the woman having "enthusiastic sex" with Mr Matturie when she claimed she had been raped.

The hearing was adjourned and when court resumed, prosecutors told the court they were no longer seeking guilty verdicts on alleged sexual offences involving the 19-year-old complainant.

The rape charge dropped against Mr Mendy related to an incident with Mr Matturie when the woman had claimed she awoke to find the footballer raping her.

'Predator'
Mr Mendy still faces seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.

Prosecutors have alleged Mr Mendy was a "predator" who "turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game".

Mr Matturie, the footballer's friend and fixer, is alleged to have had the job of finding young women for sex.

He denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.

Both men said if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.

The trial continues.

BBC

Wow! Very surprised at the verdict. Reminds me of George Zimmerman verdict.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Wow! Very surprised at the verdict. Reminds me of George Zimmerman verdict.

Correct verdict, it was clear these women are trying to make some money off a rich player. If you are raped, you do not return to the same person, same house 10 more times!

 

[sweep_shot]

Correct verdict, it was clear these women are trying to make some money off a rich player. If you are raped, you do not return to the same person, same house 10 more times!

You dont return to a house 10 times if you were raped there.

Oh. I didn't know about this part.

Good point. If they were violated, why did they go 10 times?

 

[MenInG]

Grealish is said to have had sex with one woman, aged 23, who it is claimed was later raped by Mendy's co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie.

Mendy, 28 and Matturie, 41, deny multiple rape and sexual offences against a number of young women.

Grealish was named during a police interview given by a woman and played to the jury.

The woman, aged 17 at the time, alleges she was raped twice by Mendy, the same evening of the party at his house in Prestbury, Cheshire last August.

She said she was told by the other woman Matturie is accused of raping that she also had consensual sex with Grealish.

The trial, now in its sixth week, continues.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertain...sedgntp&cvid=bd370026e54f4b9d8283315ffb0e5757

 

[Manunited18]

Jack is a party animal whose career will nosedive. Wont be surprised by end of the season Pep gets rid.

 

[MenInG]

Mendy said only now did he understand why the young woman then got upset, his rape trial at Chester Crown Court was told.

The 28-year-old Premier League star sat in the witness box as Eleanor Laws KC, his lawyer, began taking him through the first of the nine allegations he faces involving six different women.

The first woman to accuse him of sex offences was aged 29 at the time and had gone to his house, named The Spinney, which has been described as an isolated mansion in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, in October 2018.

She told the jury Mendy tried to rape her on a bed despite making it clear she was only interested in her boyfriend, who was one of the footballer's friends, and not him.

Mendy, the woman, and others had earlier been out clubbing in Manchester before staying the night at the footballer's home.

The woman slept in a bedroom with her boyfriend.

Mendy said the morning after he asked his friend how he would feel if he tried to have sex with her.

The footballer, speaking in a strong French accent, told the jury: "I realise it is disrespectful and bad, I asked him if it was okay if I tried to have sex with her. He told me yes."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=daec6fe2a44c4b92eb698ba5d26fa9df

 

[SpiritOf1903]

Hasn't grealish got a partner?. Despicable people with untold wealth beyond their worth

 

[MenInG]

Footballer Benjamin Mendy was a "predatory serial rapist" who lured young women into "toxic and dangerous" situations, a jury has been told.

The 28-year-old and his friend Louis Saha Matturie, 41, have been accused of raping women at the player's home in Prestbury, Cheshire, and at a Manchester flat.

The pair both deny all charges.

Closing his case, prosecutor Timothy Cray KC told Chester Crown Court they "never heard the word no".

However, Eleanor Laws KC, defending the Manchester City player, said having "regret" at having "quick, animalistic sex" was not the same as being raped.

'Knowledge and power'
During the three-month trial, the jury has heard a flat Mr Mendy rented in Manchester city centre, and his home in the Cheshire countryside were used for "after-parties", which had included gatherings in breach of Covid-19 lockdown regulations.

It has been alleged by the prosecution that Mr Mendy and Mr Matturie, who has been described as the footballer's "fixer", raped a number of women at the properties.

Delivering his closing speech, Mr Cray told the jury the pair assumed young women at their parties were "good for sex" and "never heard the word no".

He said they invited young women they met in nightclubs to the parties, but those who went were walking into "toxic and dangerous" situations.

"The defendants had the knowledge, the control and the ever-changing cast of young women that gave them the opportunity to abuse that knowledge and power, the defendants' control of these toxic situations," he said.

He added that the gatherings "weren't really parties".

The jury has heard from a number of character witnesses, including Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, who had praised Mr Mendy.

However, Mr Cray said for all the good side of the footballer's character, "there's this dangerous streak which makes him a predatory serial rapist".

"We all know that celebrity is absolutely no guarantee of true good character, is it?" he said.

"In fact, celebrity in general is really good cover for people to hide the dark side of your life and get away with it.

"Jimmy Savile fooled the whole nation with his celebrity."

'Untrue allegations'

However, Ms Laws, giving her own closing speech, said that in each accusation Mr Mendy faced, it was "one word against another" and added that in some way or another, all the complainants were connected to one another.

She highlighted the case of a 19-year-old woman, who had told jurors that both men had raped her.

During her evidence, mobile phone video emerged of her having "enthusiastic" sex with Mr Matturie on an occasion she claimed she was being raped.

Jurors were subsequently directed to find both men not guilty of those charges.

"Without that video, you would be considering that evidence, but Mr Mendy is a danger?" she said.

"You can't pretend it didn't happen and complainants like her are at the very heart of this case.

"People do make untrue allegations."

She added that some of the other complainants had not agreed to hand over their phones for police analysis, so the defence did not know if there were other videos, adding that having "regret" at having "quick, animalistic sex" was not the same as being raped.

"Every complainant is a victim, and if they don't know they are a victim they will be by the time police have second, third, fourth interviews with them," she said.

Mr Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.

Mr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.

The trial was adjourned until Friday.

BBC

 

[James]

The jury in Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy's rape trial has been told to question the credibility of their accusers.

In her closing speech, defence lawyer Lisa Wilding KC highlighted behaviours from accusers that were "inconsistent" with an allegation of rape.

She spoke about the evidence of one complainant, a 19-year-old woman, who told jurors from the witness box that 28-year-old Mendy and co-accused Louis Saha Matturie had raped her.

But mobile phone evidence emerged during the 16-week trial at Chester Crown Court of her having "enthusiastic" sex with Matturie on an occasion she claimed she was being raped.

Jurors in the trial were directed to find both men not guilty of those charges against them.

Ms Wilding said: "She sat in this courtroom and looked you in the eye and gave what would have, perhaps, been a compelling and convincing account of being raped multiple times by these two men.

"Like so many of the witnesses in this case, she is caught up in a tangled web of connections and contacts and knowledge.

She added: "Why is that important?

"Because of collusion. You have to consider in respect of each of the women who came to this courtroom to give evidence, is their evidence reliable? Is their evidence solid?

"This case rests on the credibility of witnesses. People lie."

The defence lawyer went on to say that two other complainants, who also knew each other, also made "remarkably similar" allegations that Matturie had raped them both when they were sleeping.

Ms Wilding then told jurors about the account of another woman, aged, 23, who claimed 40-year-old Matturie raped her at 5.30am in Mendy's Mercedes car while travelling to a local garage to buy more alcohol for a party at the footballer's house.

She later stayed the night at Mendy's house and had sex with three other men, Ms Wilding said, and when she left the footballer's mansion at 10.03am, sent a text to a friend saying: "Hahaha I have slept with Jack Grealish."

Ms Wilding said such behaviour is "inconsistent" with an allegation of rape.

She said this case was "inextricably linked" to that of a 17-year-old who has accused both Mendy and Matturie of raping her twice that same night.

Voice messages sent to her friends shortly after hear her describe the party as the "best night of my life", which Ms Wilding said is "not a reflection of someone who has been raped".

Prosecutors told the jury that Mendy lured young women into "toxic and dangerous" situations where they were raped and sexually assaulted.

They said the attacks took place at a flat he rented in Manchester city centre, as well as his home, The Spinney, in Mottram St Andrew, in the Cheshire countryside, which he used for "after-parties" including regular lockdown-busting gatherings.

Matturie has been accused of being a "fixer" to bring girls back to the parties after nights out in VIP lounges at Manchester nightclubs.

Both men claim any sex with women was consensual.

Premier League star Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.

Matturie, from Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault against seven young women.

The trial was adjourned until Tuesday morning.

SKY

 

[KingKhanWC]

^

Let this man go, clearly trying to frame him.

 

[MenInG]

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

Jurors could not reach verdicts on one count of rape and one of attempted rape, following a six-month trial.

Mr Mendy and his friend Louis Saha Matturie, 41, were accused of various sex offences against young women.

Mr Matturie was also found not guilty of three counts of rape at Chester Crown Court.

Jurors failed to reach verdicts on three counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault against him.

Mr Mendy covered his face with both hands as the jury foreman repeated "not guilty" to the six counts, which related to four young women or teenagers.

The unanimous verdicts were delivered on Wednesday by the seven men and four women on the jury, one juror having been discharged earlier for medical reasons.

The verdicts could not be reported until jurors concluded considering the remaining two counts, after they were given a majority direction by Judge Steven Everett, meaning he would accept a 10-1 majority on any verdict.

But after 14 days of deliberation, jurors could not reach verdicts on Mr Mendy's alleged attempted rape of a woman, 29, in 2018 and the alleged rape of another woman, 24, in October 2020.

BBC

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

So has he been cleared of all charges then?

 

[KingKhanWC]

So has he been cleared of all charges then?

2 to go, jury couldn't agree. Prosecutors want a re-trail.

It seems his is innocent. The CPS are scared now imo, they know if he is not-guilty on all, the payout to him for damages esp to reputation could be in the millions.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

2 to go, jury couldn't agree. Prosecutors want a re-trail.

It seems his is innocent. The CPS are scared now imo, they know if he is not-guilty on all, the payout to him for damages esp to reputation could be in the millions.

Thanks, not really been reading much about this for a while, I'm assuming that's because his supposed victims have turned out to be less innocent than first appeared. The way it was being reported prior to this it seemed he had to be guilty just because of the number of accusers involved.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Thanks, not really been reading much about this for a while, I'm assuming that's because his supposed victims have turned out to be less innocent than first appeared. The way it was being reported prior to this it seemed he had to be guilty just because of the number of accusers involved.

Their stories didnt add up.

Mendy is known for certain parties but it seems all contacts were consensual. MeToo movement on steroids it seems.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

Sounds like a well organised group claim. Still, a live case so shouldn't be speculating

 

[MenInG]

BREAKING: Benjamin Mendy has launched a “multi-million-pound” claim against Manchester City over unpaid wages.