The 28-year-old former Manchester City man was suspended from his club in August 2021, spending four months in jail and facing a total of nine charges.
The former soccer player Manchester City, Benjamin Mendy He has been found not guilty of a case of rape and another of attempted rape, the Chester (England) court ruled this Friday.
The French player, who broke down in tears after knowing the decisionwas also acquitted last January in this same room in relation to six charges of rape and one of sexual assault.
At that hearing, the jury failed to reach a verdict on the two charges of rape and attempted rapealthough today he declared him not guilty in both.
This Friday, when leaving the courts, he was approached by the journalists who were waiting for him, he did not answer any questions and only left a sentence: “Alhamdulillah”, an Arabic expression that means “Thank God” or “Praise the Mister”.
Mendy, 28, was suspended by Manchester City in August 2021, when the cases came to light, and the footballer himself pleaded not guilty to the allegations in May 2022.
The trial against him and his friend Louis Saha (not related to the footballer of the same name) began on August 10, 2022, and both have been found not guilty on all charges brought by the prosecution.
During this judicial process, Mendy has declared that the accusations will haunt him “for life”, his life in football “is over” and this situation has been “absolute hell”.
Benjamin Mendy of France, after leaving Chester court in north west England. Photo: Oli SCARFF / AFP.
The allegations suggested that Mendy was a “predator” who met the girls in Manchester nightclubs before inviting them to private parties at his Cheshire mansion, where the assaults allegedly took place.
Mendy was first arrested in November 2022 after allegedly raping a 24-year-old woman three times.
After being released under investigation, before being accused by a different woman of sexual assault, he was accused of rape by three other women, including a 17-year-old.
Source: EFE
2023-07-14 15:19:56
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