Benjamin Mendy

The trial of Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy and co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie is scheduled to continue today. Mr Mendy, 28, is accused of ...

The officer asks the woman if she had any ‘romantic contact’ with Mr Matturie or had flirted with him. Benjamin Mendy and his co-defendant Louis Matturie are back in the dock here at Chester Crown Court. The trial has now been adjourned for lunch. The trial has been adjourned until tomorrow morning. Woman Eight says that one of the two people present at the flat was Mr Matturie, who she did not know before that night. The woman tells the officer she did not consent to Mr Matturie having sex with her.

A young woman claimed she blacked out after having drinks and drugs and came round with Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy's friend raping her.

I think as I came to consciousness he was on me. "It was all very blurry," she said. I think I was just very shocked. She was drunk but "not staggering", the court heard, but after more drinks at the flat, she "blacked out". In the police interview, which was played to the jury, she told detectives Mr Matturie, 41, had made her and her friend drinks, but he himself was not drinking. In a police interview, she said she had woken up on her back on a mattress with Mr Matturie lying on top of her.

During Benjamin Mendy's trial at Chester crown court, the Manchester City star was found not guilty of one count of rape. On Tuesday, judge Stephen Everett ...

Before Everett's order, jurors heard evidence of the existence of a mobile phone video that was taken by Matturie of him and the woman having sex. On the direction of the judge, Mendy’s co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, was also found not guilty of one allegation of sexual assault and two counts of rape involving the same teen. Mendy faces one count of attempted rape, seven counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against six women.

The woman, who is now 20, told the Benjamin Mendy rape trial yesterday that she was raped by the star's co accused Louis Saha Matturie (pictured) after ...

I saw that there were other people involved and I thought I had to go to the police. I did not know whether it was a dream.' I did not realise what was happening until it was all over. I was confused about what had happened and what was going on. I was surprised it was not a party. It was my birthday and I was in a good mood.

They remain on trial for alleged sexual offences which they both deny. Mr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, was also cleared of one count of sexual assault against ...

Mr Mendy still faces seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women. Mr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, was also cleared of one count of sexual assault against the same woman. Co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of two counts of rape against the same woman.

The woman claims she blacked out before waking up with Louis Saha Matturie on top of her.

I think as I came to consciousness he was on me. "It was all very blurry," she said. I think I was just very shocked. She was drunk but "not staggering", the court heard, but after more drinks at the flat, she "blacked out". In the police interview, which was played to the jury, she told detectives Mr Matturie, 41, had made her and her friend drinks, but he himself was not drinking. In a police interview, she said she had woken up on her back on a mattress with Mr Matturie lying on top of her.

The trial of Manchester City player Benjamin Mendy and his co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie will continue today. Mr Mendy, 28, is accused of seven counts of ...

"I don't think so," the complainant says. Lisa Wilding QC, Mr Matturie's barrister, is cross-examining Woman Eight. I think something was happening to me while I was coming in and out of consciousness. "I think I came to accept it later. Good morning from Court 1 at Chester Crown Court. Asked if she remembers waking up a couple of hours later and having sex with him again, she says she doesn't. "It could be but I think I had had it in the morning." "It depends if I have taken it too late in the day, then it doesn't, but I think I had it in the morning," she says. "No," she says. "No," the complainant says. "No," the complainant replied. "I could have said that but I don't have a precise memory of saying that," the complainant says.

His co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, 41, was also cleared of two counts of rape and one of sexual assault against the same woman after the prosecution offered ...

That count was also dropped. Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of the rape of a 19-year-old woman on the direction of a judge presiding over his trial for multiple alleged sexual offenses. Manchester City and France soccer player Benjamin Mendy leaves Chester Crown Court in northwest England on August 10, 2022 at the start of his trial for the alleged rape and assault of seven women.

The complainant has told the Mendy rape trial that she was attacked by Louis Saha Matturie, 41, after going to his flat with a friend to carry on her 19th ...

A second female friend who was in the flat said: 'She looked an absolute mess and looked like she had been crying. 'She said he was a black male who looked old with wrinkles and that he was ugly. One male friend said in a statement read to the jury: 'She looked awful and looked very withdrawn. The complainant replied: 'I had not really accepted it but I knew something wrong had happened. Ms Wilding said: 'You said that he was ugly and was not someone you would have sex with or by physically attracted to. It was like fuzzy.'

A woman tells a court she did not make up a rape claim against a friend of footballer Benjamin Mendy.

Prosecutors have alleged Mr Mendy was a "predator" who "turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game", while Mr Matturie was alleged to have had the job of finding young women for sex. Ms Wilding said the woman had described Mr Matturie to her friends as an "ugly" older man with "wrinkles", and had suggested her drink might have been spiked because she was "embarrassed" about what had happened. Addressing the woman, Ms Wilding asked her if the "truth" was that the "following morning", she had realised she "had had sex with a man you had only met that night?" "Were you trying to justify to yourself you had not consented because he was not your type?" Lisa Wilding KC, representing Mr Matturie, suggested he and the woman had consensual sex twice, and the rape allegation was made out of "embarrassment" because he was an older man. The court was told the woman had been to a party in March 2021 and told friends she could not remember a lot of the evening and had blacked out.