Manchester Metropolis footballer Benjamin Mendy has denied mendacity to “save his personal pores and skin” over the alleged rape and sexual assault of a string of girls.
The 28-year-old Premier League participant led a partying life-style, having intercourse with girls “inside seconds and minutes” of assembly them, Chester Crown Court docket heard.
Mendy is accused of being a “predator” who turned the pursuit of girls for intercourse right into a sport, prosecutors allege, recurrently going clubbing in Manchester earlier than holding “after-parties” the place younger girls had been invited again to his
Cheshire mansion and sexually assaulted.
He denies rape and sexual assaults on six girls and advised the jury any sexual contact was at all times consensual.
Mendy sat within the witness field with a French interpreter beside him as Timothy Cray KC, prosecuting, started cross-examination of the defendant.
Mendy stated that, after his arrest for rape, he had time to suppose in jail and realised his life was going “badly flawed” and the best way he was having intercourse with a number of girls was unhealthy for him and would possibly “upset” the ladies.
Mr Cray stated: “It is an issue for you. Inside seconds, minutes, of assembly some girls who you understand nothing about, you’d be having intercourse with them.
“You had been having intercourse with girls with none considered contraception. You are having intercourse with girls who your mates had simply had intercourse with, or had been about to have intercourse with.
“However the furthest you’re prepared to go, when it comes to damage, is all you’ve gotten accomplished is damage some girls’s emotions?”
Mendy replied: “Now I realise, sure.”
“Effectively assist us with this,” Mr Cray continued. “Has something that any of them stated made you suppose, ‘Are you aware what, I might need received a few of these acts of mine actually badly flawed?’
“As we listened to what the ladies have been saying, have you ever had this thought: ‘Possibly I ought to’ve taken extra thought to see whether or not they actually had been consenting?”‘
Mendy replied: “It was all consensual.”
Mr Cray continued: “In your case, there isn’t any room for mistake or misunderstanding with what you’re doing with the six girls. They have that fully flawed.
“Or, you bought it fully flawed and you’re mendacity? You might be mendacity to save lots of your personal pores and skin?”
“No,” Mendy replied.
Mendy denied that he won’t make “good choices” or misjudge issues when drunk.
Mr Cray then confirmed the jury a video clip of CCTV taken from Mendy’s residence in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire.
Recorded at 4.42am on August 23 final yr, it confirmed Mendy coming back from clubbing in Manchester for an after-party at his mansion the place he later allegedly raped a 17-year-old woman who additionally went again to his home.
Within the clip Mendy is seen staggering round a Vary Rover automobile, additionally containing Metropolis team-mate Jack Grealish, his trousers low over his bottom and sporting a head scarf.
Mr Cray continued: “Are you sporting some form of scarf? You may’t even stroll straight. When you’re like that, do not you agree, you would possibly get issues flawed, for instance about whether or not a lady needs you or not?”
“No,” replied Mendy.
The jury heard that, shortly after arriving again on the home, co-accused Louis Saha Matturie left with a lady, aged 23, to purchase £150 of alcohol from an area storage to hold on partying.
On the best way again he’s alleged to have raped the 23-year-old within the automobile.
Afterward Mendy additionally had consensual intercourse with the identical lady after he had allegedly raped the 17-year-old in his residence workplace and trophy room, the place Mr Grealish was later discovered asleep by different party-goers, the court docket heard.
Mr Cray continued: “I requested you in the beginning: do you suppose, with that a lot drink, having intercourse with ladies you’ve gotten by no means met would possibly simply be harmful territory, the place you can also make errors as to what they actually wished?”
“No,” replied the defendant.
Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one rely of tried rape and one rely of sexual assault in opposition to six girls.
Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault regarding seven younger girls.
The trial was adjourned till Wednesday.
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