On Wednesday, June 28, a jury heard that Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy r@ped a young woman before telling her, “It’s fine, I’ve had s+x with 10,000 women.”
According to the BBC, the 28-year-old is accused of assaulting the woman, who was 24 at the time, in October 2020 at his £4 million property in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire.
He is also accused of attempting to rape another lady, who was 29 at the time and claimed he att@cked her at his home two years ago.
The footballer on trial at Chester Crown Court, on the other hand, denies both counts.
The jury of six women and six men have been told by trial Judge Stephen Everett, the Recorder of Chester, that the France international was found not guilty of s+xual offences alleged by other women after a trial that ended in January this year.
He told jurors the jury last time could not reach verdicts on the two charges they are hearing, that of r@pe and attempted rape, hence his re-trial on those two charges.
In his opening statement, Benjamin Aina said Mr Benjamin Mendy first met woman A, a UK student, while in a nightclub in Barcelona in late 2017 and she became intimate with one of his friends.
They kept in touch and a year later she arranged to visit the accused’s friend at the footballer’s house, where they stayed after they all went with other girls for a night out.
The morning after, when she took a shower in the ensuite bathroom, Mr Mendy appeared uninvited, wearing just boxer shorts and he was “aroused”, the court heard.
The footballer is then alleged to have grabbed the woman and tried to r@pe her on the bed as she tried to struggle free, despite her repeatedly telling him to stop.
Two years later, woman B was out with friends at a bar in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, near Mr Mendy’s home, when they were invited back to the footballer’s house.
She alleges the accused took her phone from her, which contained “intimate” photos, then led her to his locked bedroom, as she asked for her phone back.
Mr Aina said Mr Mendy told her “I just wanna have a look at you” and told her to take her clothes off.
Woman B complied, leaving her underwear on, and Mr Mendy then threw her phone on the bed.
As she went to retrieve it, Benjamin Mendy is alleged to have taken hold of her from behind and raped her despite her telling him she did not want to have s€x.
Mr Aina told the jury: “At this stage Mr Mendy took a step back and said ‘you’re too shy’. It’s fine. I’ve had s€x with 10,000 women’.”
The footballer told police on both occasions any s€xual contact was consensual and denies any wrongdoing.
The trial continues.
