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Former Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of rape and attempted rape.
The footballer was in"absolute tears" after hearing the verdict,"coming out of the court hugging his friends who were here to support him," Sky News correspondent Inzamam Rashid said outside court.A statement read outside court by his solicitors said Mendy"would like to thank the members of the jury for focusing on the evidence in this trial rather than on rumour and innuendo that have followed this case".
"This is the second time that Mr Mendy has been tried and found not guilty by a jury. He is delighted that both juries reached the correct verdicts."of sexual offences against a number of women but the jury were unable to reach verdicts on the two charges. The court heard Mendy had met a British student in a nightclub in Barcelona in 2017. She became close with a friend of Mendy's and arranged to visit him at the footballer's home the following year.But the footballer told the jury:"I asked her if we are OK to have sex. She told me, 'No' because of my friend.
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