Man City defender Benjamin Mendy has been cleared of sex attacks on four women but jurors failed to reach verdicts on two others after a six-month trial.
The 28-year-old covered his face with both hands and gently rocketed back and forth while sitting in the dock at Chester Crown Court. The jury foreman repeated “not guilty” to six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, relating to four young women or teenagers.
But after 14 days of deliberation, jurors could not reach verdicts on Mendy’s alleged attempted rape of a woman, 29, in 2018 and the rape of another woman, 24, in October 2020.Any decision on a re-trial on those outstanding charges is pending. Mendy had been accused of being a “predator” who turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game, his trial heard, drinking champagne in VIP areas of Manchester nightclubs before inviting young women into “toxic and dangerous” situations at “after-parties” at his £4.7 million Cheshire mansion in Mottram St Andrew, near Prestbury.
He was first arrested in November 2020 after the alleged triple rape of the 24-year-old woman at his home the previous month. Lawyers for both men suggested while the trial began with claims Mendy and Matturie were “predators” and “monsters”, each allegation was “riddled with inconsistencies and flaws”.
Ms Wilding said the sexual habits and lifestyles of the defendants did not make them rapists, and that women over the last 40 years had earned sexual equality, however that is expressed.
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