Benjamin Mendy: Girl heard screaming 'rape' at party, trial told

A pistillate has told however she saw and heard a miss screaming "rape, rape" astatine a enactment attended by footballer Benjamin Mendy.

The Manchester City defender is accused of assorted offences including 7 counts of rape.

His proceedings heard however co-accused Louis Saha Matturie started shouting astatine the pistillate to "shut up" arsenic constabulary banged connected the doorway to interruption up the gathering.

The witnesser has accused Mr Matturie of sexually assaulting her successful 2016.

The enactment took spot astatine an flat connected Chapel Street adjacent Manchester metropolis centre astatine the extremity of January past year, the pistillate told Chester Crown Court.

She said the young pistillate had been successful an upstairs country with different people, but she did not cognize who.

She said she told constabulary the pistillate came retired of the country "screaming her caput off, shouting, 'rape, rape"'.

The witnesser told officers Mr Matturie, who was downstairs astatine the time, past "grabbed the miss and told her to unopen up".

The tribunal heard the constabulary arrived and were banging connected the doorway arsenic the enactment was held during a coronavirus lockdown.

Officers were asking different party-goers astir the miss but she had near the level earlier constabulary got in, the witnesser told the jury.

Earlier, the witnesser said she was 18 and surviving and moving successful Sheffield erstwhile she began to socialise with footballers and was past sexually assaulted by Mr Matturie, successful 2016.

Later she began to socialise successful Manchester from 2020 onwards and went to galore parties, immoderate attended by footballers, the "majority" of which took spot during lockdown, she said.

The tribunal past heard of a antithetic enactment astatine the aforesaid flat connected Chapel Street successful December 2020 attended by Mendy and his past team-mate, Raheem Sterling.

She was sitting connected a sofa and Mr Sterling, who present plays for Chelsea, was passing by and tripped implicit her foot.

Lisa Wilding KC, defending Mr Matturie, asked the witness: "He tripped implicit you and helium was assertive with you?"

The witnesser agreed and said Mr Sterling called her "fat".

Ms Wilding continued: "And you were transverse astir that?

"One of your friends called him a four-foot gnome and decently insulted him and you felt better?"

The witnesser replied: "Not transverse but confused arsenic to wherefore anyone tin beryllium assertive to idiosyncratic erstwhile tripping implicit a foot. Non-intentional."

Prosecutors person alleged Mr Mendy is simply a "predator" who "turned the pursuit of women for enactment into a game", portion Mr Matturie, his person and "fixer", is alleged to person had the occupation of uncovering young women for sex.

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

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

Both men person said if immoderate enactment took spot it was consensual.