Benjamin Mendy: Footballer enjoyed sex with lots of women, trial told

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has told a tribunal helium enjoyed "having enactment with a batch of women".

The 28-year-old, who is accused of 7 counts of rape, told Chester Crown Court it was "honestly, truthful easy" for him to conscionable women to person enactment with.

The French planetary subordinate said being successful situation connected remand had made him "learn tons of things astir life".

He and his person Louis Saha Matturie person denied a fig of intersexual offences.

Mr Mendy said helium began to person attraction from women erstwhile helium was 18 and playing for Marseille.

When asked by Eleanor Laws KC, defending, if helium realised why, helium said: "At the beginning, no, but after, yes. Because of status."

When helium joined Manchester City successful 2017, helium said, the attraction became "ten times more".

He said: "The mode they came to me, it's not due to the fact that of my look, it's due to the fact that of football."

Asked astir his cognition to having enactment with women helium did not cognize peculiarly well, helium said: "At the clip I was not reasoning similar however they were feeling oregon they tin beryllium upset because, for me, if they wanted to person enactment and I wanted to, everything was good and I would transportation connected my partying."

He said helium was enjoying "having enactment with a batch of women".

But, helium said if a pistillate said "no" helium would "be fine, I'd judge it and I'd stop".

The World Cup victor said helium "didn't worry" astir utilizing contraception, though helium "knew the risks" and helium said having enactment with antithetic women connected the aforesaid nighttime was "normal" for him.

When asked wherefore helium carried connected having parties with women helium did not cognize aft his archetypal arrest, Mr Mendy said: "I did thing incorrect truthful I was conscionable like, transportation on."

Ms Laws said: "Is that thing you regret now?"

Mr Mendy replied: "Yeah."

He said: "When I was successful situation it made maine realise a batch of things. The partying I was doing, wrong I had immoderate pain."

When asked to talk up during his evidence, Mr Mendy said helium was "ashamed" to speech astir sex.

He said: "More embarrassed, similar erstwhile you inquire maine the question I can't shriek 'yeah I emotion sex' due to the fact that it would look weird."

The assemblage was told Mr Mendy was successful situation connected remand from August 2021 until January.

He said: "All my beingness I person ne'er had the clip to truly deliberation astir what I was doing.

"When I went determination I was alone, you're sat down each day, the lone happening you tin bash is think."

Asked what helium thought present astir women, helium said: "I didn't cognize I tin wounded their feelings if we were some OK to person sex."

He said helium realised the mode helium would sometimes talk astir women was "disrespectful".

Mr Mendy told the tribunal situation was the archetypal clip successful his beingness helium was moving connected thing different than shot and would gain £4 a time which helium would walk successful the canteen.

He said: "For the archetypal clip I was truly careful, similar 'I request to bargain this but if I get that I can't person that'. The beingness I had before, everything I wanted to person I conscionable bought it.

"So it taught maine the worth of money."

He added: "I was bittersweet and upset to beryllium going [to prison] but astatine the aforesaid clip I larn tons of things astir beingness and the mode I was."

Mr Mendy denies 7 counts of rape, 1 number of attempted rape and 1 number of intersexual battle against six young women.

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