Benjamin Mendy said he slept with 10,000 women, court hears

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy raped a young pistillate past told her "it's fine, I've had enactment with 10,000 women", a assemblage has heard.

The 28-year-old is accused of attacking the woman, aged 24 astatine the time, astatine his £4m mansion successful Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, successful October 2020.

He is besides accused of the attempted rape of different woman, aged 29 astatine the time, who said helium besides attacked her astatine his location 2 years before.

The footballer denies some charges.

He is connected proceedings astatine Chester Crown Court.

The assemblage of six women and six men person been told by proceedings Judge Stephen Everett, the Recorder of Chester, that the French planetary was recovered not blameworthy of intersexual offences alleged by different women aft a proceedings that ended successful January this year.

He told jurors the assemblage past clip could not scope verdicts connected the 2 charges they are hearing, that of rape and attempted rape, hence his re-trial connected those 2 charges.

The justice warned them not to look up details of the past proceedings oregon travel sum successful the media, and lone determine the lawsuit connected the grounds heard successful tribunal successful the existent trial.

Benjamin Aina KC, opening the trial, said: "Benjamin Mendy is simply a footballer who was nether declaration to Manchester City FC.

"He would person parties and societal gatherings astatine his home, The Spinney, successful Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire.

"He would person some antheral and pistillate guests astatine his societal gatherings.

"It is the prosecution lawsuit that connected 2 occasions Mr Mendy took vantage of 2 of his pistillate guests.

"On 1 juncture helium tried to person forced enactment with a pistillate guest, pistillate A.

"On different juncture helium raped a pistillate impermanent successful 1 of his bedrooms, pistillate B."

Mr Aina said Mr Mendy archetypal met pistillate A, a UK student, portion successful a nightclub successful Barcelona successful precocious 2017 and she became intimate with 1 of his friends.

They kept successful interaction and a twelvemonth aboriginal she arranged to sojourn the accused's person astatine the footballer's house, wherever they stayed aft they each went with different girls for a night-out.

The greeting after, erstwhile she took a ablution successful the ensuite bathroom, Mr Mendy appeared uninvited, wearing conscionable boxer shorts and helium was "aroused", the tribunal heard.

The footballer is past alleged to person grabbed the pistillate and tried to rape her connected the furniture arsenic she tried to conflict free, contempt her repeatedly telling him to stop.

Two years later, pistillate B was retired with friends astatine a barroom successful Alderley Edge, Cheshire, adjacent Mr Mendy's home, erstwhile they were invited backmost to the footballer's house.

She alleges the accused took her telephone from her, which contained "intimate" photos, past led her to his locked bedroom, arsenic she asked for her telephone back.

Mr Aina said Mr Mendy told her "I conscionable wanna person a look astatine you" and told her to instrumentality her apparel off.

Woman B complied, leaving her underwear on, and Mr Mendy past threw her telephone connected the bed.

As she went to retrieve it, the footballer is alleged to person taken clasp of her from down and raped her contempt her telling him she did not privation to person sex.

Mr Aina told the jury: "At this signifier Mr Mendy took a measurement backmost and said 'you're excessively shy'.

"Mr Mendy said, 'It's fine. I've had enactment with 10,000 women'."

The footballer told constabulary connected some occasions immoderate intersexual interaction was consensual and denies immoderate wrongdoing.

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