Jury retires to consider verdicts in trial of former Manchester City star Benjamin Mendy
Jurors have retired to deliberate their verdicts in Benjamin Mendy's rape trial. The French footballer, 28, is accused of raping one woman in October 2020, and of attempting to rape a second woman two years earlier.
Following a two week trial at Chester Crown Court, jurors were sent out to deliberate at 10.45am today . Jurors have been told that the case is a re-trial, after Mr Mendy was previously found not guilty of other sexual allegations.Mr Mendy has said that any sexual contact between him and the two women was consensual. Prosecutors allege that Mr Mendy 'took advantage' of the two complainants, after they had been invited to his home near Prestbury.
She spent the night with Mr Mendy's friend at the footballer's house, and has claimed that Mr Mendy tried to rape her the morning after. He denies the allegation. The complainant told the jury that she followed Mr Mendy from the pool area of the home to a bedroom, to retrieve her phone. Woman Two has claimed that he then raped her during an incident in a bedroom.
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