Benjamin Mendy told alleged victim, 'it's fine, I have had sex with 10,000 women', court hears
18.08.2022 - 15:49
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy said ”It’s fine, I have had sex with 10,000 women” after allegedly raping a woman three times in his “locked” bedroom, a court heard.
The 28-year-old French international allegedly lured the woman into his bedroom by taking her phone and looking through naked pictures of her. Chester Crown Court heard how, in October 2020, Mendy and the woman had been at a bar earlier in the evening.
They then went back to Mendy’s house in Mottram St Andrew, rural Cheshire. The court heard how the alleged victim said, in her police interview, that he used his fingerprint to open a bedroom door and she followed him in before asking for her phone back.
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She claimed he told her to take her clothes off, telling her: “If you just take your clothes off, I just want to have a look at you and I won’t touch you but I just want to see what you look like. I want to see your body. I want to see your tits, your tits are so big.”
The woman, who stripped down to her underwear, said she repeatedly told Mendy she did not want to have sex with him and her friend would be looking for her but he said: “Well the door's locked anyway.”
She told police: “He threw my phone on the bed so then I bent over to get it off the bed and he had walked round the bed and come behind me and pushed me onto the bed so I was on all fours.
“He was then like thrusting against me with his pants up. And then he moved my knickers, my thong, to the side and I was like ‘No, no, this is too much’ and he was like ‘I’m just gonna put the tip in just for a minute’ and I was saying ‘No I don’t want to, I don’t want to do that’.
“I sort of struggled forward and I was more laying