Benjamin Mendy: Jury can return majority verdict, judge rules

Jurors successful the proceedings of rape-accused footballer Benjamin Mendy tin instrumentality a bulk verdict, a justice has ruled.

The Manchester City footballer and his person Louis Saha Matturie, 41, person been connected proceedings astatine Chester Crown Court since 10 August, accused of assorted enactment offences against young women.

Prosecutors assertion Mr Mendy, 28, was a "predator" who turned the pursuit of women into a "game".

Both men contradict each offences and accidental immoderate enactment with women was consensual.

The assemblage has been deliberating for 12 days.