Mendy told woman her boyfriend said it would be 承認する if they had sex, 法廷，裁判所 told
Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy told a woman he is （刑事）被告 of trying to 強姦 that her boyfriend had said it would be “承認する” if they had sex, a 法廷，裁判所 heard.
Mendy said only now did he understand why the young woman then got upset, the 陪審／陪審員団 at his 強姦 裁判，公判 at Chester 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 heard.
The 28-year-old 首相 League 星／主役にする sat in the 証言，証人／目撃する box as his lawyer, Eleanor 法律s KC, began taking him through the first of the nine 主張s he 直面するs 伴う／関わるing six different women.
The first woman to 告発する／非難する him of sex offences was 老年の 29 at the time and had gone to his house, The Spinney in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, in October 2018.
She told the 陪審／陪審員団 she made it （疑いを）晴らす she was 利益／興味d in her boyfriend, not Mendy, but he grabbed her and tried to 強姦 her on a bed.
Earlier Mendy, the woman and others had been out clubbing in Manchester and then all stayed the night at Mendy’s home, with the woman sleeping in a bedroom with her boyfriend, one of the footballer’s friends.
The 28-year-old 否定するs a number of 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s 含むing 強姦 and 試みる／企てるd 強姦 (David Rawcliffe/PA)
Mendy said the morning after he asked his friend how he would feel if he tried to have sex with her.
The footballer, speaking in a strong French accent, told the 陪審／陪審員団: “I realise it is disrespectful and bad, I asked him if it was 承認する if I tried to have sex with her. He told me yes.”
Mendy said he went to the bedroom where she was having a にわか雨 and told her she was “sexy”.
Wearing just a towel the woman flirted with him, he said, and then they began touching each other.
“Then I ask her if we can have sex. Then, ‘No, because of my boyfriend,'” to which Mendy told her: “He was 罰金 with that.”
Mendy continued: “She started to be upset. I said: ‘You can ask him if you want to?’ She continued to be upset.”
He said he then left the bedroom and went 支援する downstairs to the lounge.
Ms 法律s, defending, asked Mendy: “Do you understand, now, why she might have been upset?”
“Now, yes,” Mendy replied.
After the woman （機の）カム downstairs Mendy said she could not get a taxi so arranged for his driver to take her to a train 駅／配置する so she could go home.
Mendy was also asked about a comment he had made the night before while they were all drinking and dancing in the nightclub.
He said the woman had been flirting with him and while dancing with her boyfriend he had whispered to her: ‘I am going to 誘拐する you.’
Mendy said this was just “joking”, 追加するing: “The mood was good. Good vibes.”
Co-（刑事）被告 Louis Saha Matturie arrives at Chester 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 (David Rawcliffe/PA)
Ms 法律s moved on to the next 主張 that two years later, in October 2021, Mendy had 強姦d a 20-year-old woman three times at his home.
This was during the “支配する of six” period of the pandemic lockdown, and Mendy said he was trying to “hide” the fact that he was hosting parties at his Cheshire mansion.
Mendy said: “It was wrong to have done that, I 悔いる it , I feel like so embarrassed again, it was not the 権利 thing to do.”
On October 10 last year police had come to his home during a party but the next night he had another party at home after going to a 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 in nearby Alderley 辛勝する／優位 and 招待するing girls 支援する, 含むing the 20-year-old 強姦 原告，告訴人.
訪問者s had been 警告するd not to take photos or ビデオs of his home during the lockdown-破産した／（警察が）手入れするing party but Mendy said he spotted the woman taking some ビデオ of the swimming pool area and grabbed her phone.
Mendy said he 削除するd a Snapchat memories ビデオ off her phone and began scrolling through her camera roll to check for photos.
“I 設立する a picture, naked, of her. When I saw that, I was like, ‘Wow’ Do you have more?” Mendy told the 陪審／陪審員団.
“She says: ‘Yes, I have more.'”
Mendy said she agreed to go upstairs to his bedroom to show him more naked pictures on her phone, kept in a folder, ‘My 注目する，もくろむs only.’
Mendy said he then went to the en 控訴 bathroom and when he returned the woman had stripped to her knickers and bra.
He said she agreed to give him oral sex and to “play around”, but he 否定するd trying to 侵入する her.
Mendy said the woman was worried her sister at the party would be looking for her so they 交流d Snapchat 詳細（に述べる）s and left the room.
The woman then left his home but one of her friends stayed and had sex with Mendy, staying the night at his home.
The morning after he got a text message from co-（刑事）被告 Louis Saha Matturie, who had received a text message from one of the woman’s friends, 説 she was upset about what happened and had not 同意d to 性の activity.
Mendy sent a text 支援する to Matturie 説: “Bro, she took some snap, I say 削除する it. I see a few pics of her, good arse, sexy big tits. She suck me. That’s it bro. I didn’t 軍隊 her.'”
検察官，検事s say Mendy is a “predator” who “turned the 追跡 of women for sex into a game”, while co-被告 Matturie 恐らく had the 職業 of finding young women for sex, which he 否定するs.
Mendy 否定するs seven counts of 強姦, one count of 試みる／企てるd 強姦 and one count of 性の 強襲，強姦 against six young women.
Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, 否定するs six counts of 強姦 and three counts of 性の 強襲，強姦 relating to seven young women.
The 裁判，公判 continue s.
