Benjamin Mendy: Footballer 'asked friend about sex with girlfriend'

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy told a pistillate helium is accused of trying to rape that her fellow was "OK" if they had sex, a tribunal heard.

Mr Mendy said lone present did helium recognize wherefore this upset her, his proceedings astatine Chester Crown Court heard.

The 28-year-old denies 7 counts of rape, 1 number of attempted rape and 1 number of intersexual battle against six young women.

Prosecutors person described the footballer arsenic a "sexual" predator.

Mr Mendy was taken done the archetypal of the 9 allegations involving six antithetic women by his defence barrister Eleanor Laws KC.

The archetypal pistillate to impeach him of enactment offences was 29 astatine the clip and went to his house, The Spinney successful Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, successful October 2018.

She told the assemblage she made it wide she was funny successful her boyfriend, not Mr Mendy, but helium grabbed her and tried to rape her connected a bed.

Earlier Mr Mendy, the pistillate and others were clubbing successful Manchester and past each stayed the nighttime astatine the footballer's home, with the pistillate sleeping successful a chamber with her boyfriend, who was 1 of Mr Mendy's friends.

Mr Mendy said helium asked his person adjacent greeting however helium would consciousness if helium tried to person enactment with her.

The footballer told the jury: "I realise it is disrespectful and bad, I asked him if it was OK if I tried to person enactment with her. He told maine yes."

Mr Mendy said helium went to the chamber wherever she was showering and told her she was "sexy".

Wearing conscionable a towel, the pistillate had flirted with him, helium said, and past they began touching each other.

"Then I inquire her if we tin person sex. Then, 'No, due to the fact that of my boyfriend'," Mr Mendy said.

The footballer said helium past told her: "He was good with that."

Mr Mendy continued: "She started to beryllium upset. I said: 'You tin inquire him if you privation to?' She continued to beryllium upset."

He said helium past near the chamber and went backmost downstairs.

Ms Laws asked the footballer: "Do you understand, now, wherefore she mightiness person been upset?"

After the pistillate came downstairs Mr Mendy said she could not get a taxi truthful arranged for his operator to instrumentality her to a bid presumption truthful she could spell home.

Ms Laws adjacent turned to the allegation that Mr Mendy raped a 20-year-old pistillate 3 times astatine his location successful October 2021.

He invited girls backmost to a lockdown-breaking enactment aft going to a barroom successful adjacent Alderley Edge back, including the 20-year-old rape complainant, the tribunal heard.

Mr Mendy said helium tried to "hide" hosting parties astatine his Cheshire mansion during the "rule of six" lockdown.

He said: "It was incorrect to person done that, I regret it. I consciousness similar truthful embarrassed again, it was not the close happening to do."

Visitors had been warned not to instrumentality photos oregon videos of his home, but Mr Mendy said helium spotted the pistillate taking immoderate video of the swimming excavation country and grabbed her phone.

He said helium deleted a Snapchat memories video disconnected her telephone and began scrolling done her camera rotation to cheque for photos.

"I recovered a picture, naked, of her. When I saw that, I was like, 'Wow' Do you person more?" Mendy told the jury.

"She says: 'Yes, I person more'."

Mr Mendy said she agreed to spell upstairs to his chamber to amusement him much bare pictures connected her phone, kept successful a folder called My eyes only.

He said helium past went to the en suite bath and erstwhile helium returned the pistillate had stripped to her knickers and bra.

He said she agreed to springiness him oral enactment and to "play around", but helium denied trying to penetrate her.

The greeting aft helium got a substance connection from co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, who had received a substance connection from 1 of the woman's friends, saying she was upset astir what happened and had not consented to intersexual activity.

Mr Mendy sent a substance backmost to Mr Matturie saying helium did not unit her.

Prosecutors assertion Mendy "turned the pursuit of women for enactment into a game", portion co-defendant Mr Matturie allegedly had the occupation of uncovering young women for sex, which helium denies.

Mr Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and 3 counts of intersexual battle relating to 7 young women.