The footballer Benjamin Mendy, from Manchester City, goes to the Crown Court in Chester (England) in a trial for a total of ten sexual crimes: eight alleged cases of rape, one more for sexual assault and another additional for attempted of the same crime .
According to the British press, truly macabre testimonies have been heard against the Frenchman, who was denounced last year by several possible victims.
One of them would have accused Mendy of having abused her up to three times in one of the panic rooms of her mansion in Manchester, which is accessed only by a fingerprint. “She seemed to have seen a ghost. She went blank. She seemed dead,” after the attack, a friend explained to the jury after the prosecutor’s questions.
According to the newspaper ‘Daily Mail’, both went home in a taxi and the next day the victim would have told her friend that the soccer player had promised not to touch her if she undressed while he was looking at her, but then “forced her “to lie down on a bed and raped her.
“Two witnesses allege rapes in those rooms and felt they were locked up scared and isolated,” prosecutor Timothy Cray had said.
According to the leaks of the trial, the complainant, 29, the player insisted that they “could go the nights they wanted” and asked them “not to tell anyone”, since being with him was “a privilege” .
For the Prosecutor’s Office, Benjamin Mendy is a “predator” who “turned the search for women for sex into a game.”
The soccer player, who pleaded not guilty at the beginning of the process, faces sentences that would range from 5 to 20 years in prison, although some even speak of life imprisonment due to the number and seriousness of the complaints.
