Manchester City defender accused of raping woman in his bedroom before making boast in October 2020
The Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy told one of his alleged victims he had slept with 10,000 women, his rape trial has heard.
In a police video interview played to the jury at Chester crown court, the woman, then a 24-year-old teacher, said she met Mendy at Parea, a bar in Alderley Edge, an affluent Cheshire town, on 11 October 2020. She described following the footballer upstairs and into a bedroom he unlocked using his fingerprint on a touch screen, as she repeatedly asked for her phone back. She said she made it clear she was not interested in him. “I said: I don’t want to have sex with you. I want to go,” she told police.Believing she was locked in, the woman described taking off all of her clothes apart from a thong. He then grabbed her from behind, she claimed, before he attacked her.
She was interviewed on 11 November 2020, nine months before Mendy was charged with any sexual offences by Greater Manchester police.
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