Benjamin Mendy

The Manchester City footballer is accused of raping and sexually assaulting seven different women on five different occasions at his home in Cheshire ...

Jurors saw drone footage of Mendy’s pad, which backs on to woods and fields and is on a “rural road” with no street lighting. “The defendants weren’t in some happy state of sexual ignorance, they knew very well what they were doing. He added: “The acts show callous indifference to the women they went after. That was the effect of deliberate, planned, choices the defendants made and the desires they let loose many times.” “You can’t get in from the outside but you can open them from the inside if you know what to do. Prosecutor Timothy Cray QC told jurors two women claim they were taken to locked rooms at the footballer’s mansion, known as ‘The Spinney’ and raped.

Man City's Benjamin Mendy raped three women in one night at his "isolated mansion", a court hears.

Mr Cray told the court how the defendants said in "broad terms" that all the women consented to sex willingly, with only a couple of allegations where there is a denial that anything sexual happened. The court heard how Mr Mendy's home, The Spinney, in Mottram St Andrew in rural Cheshire, was "part and parcel" of how he and Mr Matturie were able to abuse the women. Mr Cray said key features included the pair targeting "women who were so drunk almost to the extent that they had little or no memory of the incidents, or were asleep, or they were waking from sleep". Mr Cray said Mr Matturie was his friend and fixer, and he would "find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted". "The doors of restaurants and nightclubs were open to him, people wanted to be with him," Mr Cray said. He said the women were "disposable" to Mr Mendy.

Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was described by prosecutors as a "predator" who could not take no for an answer as the trial began Monday of the ...

"In their minds, and this could not be clearer, the stream of women they brought to their homes existed purely to be pursued for sex." Timothy Cray, the lawyer for the prosecution, opened the trial at Chester Crown Court in northwest England by telling the jury: "The prosecution case is simple. He is alleged to have committed the offenses against seven young women between October 2018 and August last year.

Mendy, 28, is on trial charged with eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault.

"It has little to do with football. Mendy, 28, a French player who was suspended by Manchester City when he was charged a year ago, is accused of eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault. Mendy, 28, is on trial charged with eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault.

The 28-year-olds trial for eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault began at Chester Crown Court on Monday; ...

"It has little to do with football. Mendy, 28, a French player who was suspended by Manchester City when he was charged a year ago, is accused of eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault. Manchester City left-back Benjamin Mendy and a friend turned the "pursuit of women for sex into a game", their rape trial has heard.

London: The trial of Manchester City's Benjamin Mendy began on Monday, with the footballer accused of eight counts of rape. The French soccer player was ...

Both defendants are on bail and the trial is expected to last up to 15 weeks. He is alleged to have committed the offenses against seven young women between October 2018 and August last year, however, he denies the charges. The alleged offences span July 2012 to August last year.

Manchester City player and alleged 'fixer' accused of 'callous indifference' to 13 young women they allegedly attacked.

Two of the women said Mendy raped them in rooms they believed to be locked. 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. Some of the women told police they had their phones taken off them on arrival. Two of the women told police they were “passed between” both men at Mendy’s multimillion-pound mansion, where he held pool parties. The pair are accused of showing “callous indifference” to the 13 young women they allegedly attacked. 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.

Mendy's trial at Chester Crown Court began on Monday where he stands accused of eight counts of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault, ...

That was the effect of deliberate, planned, choices the defendants made and the desires they let loose many times.” And 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. Timothy Cray QC said in the prosecution's opening statement how "the stream of women they [Mendy and Matturie] brought to their homes existed purely to be pursued for sex." The court heard they went to the cinema room and started kissing but “straight away” Mendy took his shorts off and the alleged victim claims she told him she didn’t want to have sex with him. Another witness claims Mendy took her phone and headed upstairs to a master bedroom after going back to his house in October 2020. Two of the rooms in his house were said to be used as 'panic rooms' which had a sophisticated locking system that could only be opened from the outside.