Former Blues defender Mendy is suing the club for docking £11 million in wages
Benjamin Mendy 's "reckless behaviour" meant he was essentially "demanding to be locked up" before he was first remanded into custody for sex offences, Manchester City have told an employment tribunal.
He says his wages were stopped for 22 months between September 2021, the month after he was first charged and remanded, and June 2023, when his contract expired. He said: "In the run-up to his third arrest, and his remand to custody, we're looking at a long course of action, quite conscious and deliberate, which ran risks of generating allegations. More specifically, and importantly, by breaching his bail conditions, he ran the risk of ensuring he was held in custody.
"We are not saying he has committed rapes or sexual assaults, he has been acquitted of those things" he continued. "And even at the time, he was not assumed to be guilty, by the club or anyone else. It's not the allegations per se, it is the way he behaved, particularly in relation to police bail, which made custody in effect inevitable."
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