The Manchester Metropolis defender Benjamin Mendy informed certainly one of his alleged victims he had slept with 10,000 ladies, his rape trial has heard.
The 28-year-old Frenchman made the boast to a lady after raping her in his bed room, having confiscated her telephone at his Cheshire mansion, Chester crown courtroom heard on Thursday.
The lady – the primary of seven to go to police to accuse the footballer of rape or sexual assault – stated she believed she had been locked within the room after Mendy informed her she couldn’t get out and promised to provide her telephone again if she stripped bare.
In a police video interview performed to the jury at Chester crown courtroom, the girl stated she met Mendy at Parea, a bar in Alderley Edge, an prosperous Cheshire city, on 11 October 2020, when she was 24.
Together with buddies she went again to his residence in close by Mottram St Andrew, the place she was confronted by the footballer after he noticed her utilizing Snapchat on her telephone.
She claims he informed her that she couldn’t put photos of his home on social media, as he had already been fined £200,000 by his membership for having individuals again. He then took her telephone and began wanting via her photos, she stated, a few of which had been of an intimate nature.
She described following the footballer upstairs and right into a bed room he unlocked utilizing his fingerprint on a contact display, as she repeatedly requested for her telephone again. She stated she made it clear she was not all for him. “I stated: I don’t wish to have intercourse with you. I wish to go,” she informed police.
He then began asking to see her bare however she refused, she claimed.
Believing she was locked in, the girl described taking off all of her garments other than a thong. He then grabbed her from behind, she claimed, earlier than he attacked her. When she protested, he stated: “Oh, you’re too shy,” she claimed. “And I stated ‘No, I’m not shy. I simply don’t wish to have intercourse with you.’ And he was like: ‘It’s tremendous. I’ve had intercourse with 10,000 ladies. It’s OK.’”
She stated she informed him she wanted to go and began to get modified, just for him to say: “In the event you don’t inform anybody something you may come right here each evening.” She stated she didn’t perceive how he might presumably see what he had completed to her as “a privilege” that she would wish to repeat.
Interviewed by a specialist police officer, she described how she repeatedly stated no. “What actually upsets me is what number of occasions I stated no. What number of occasions I stated: I don’t wish to have intercourse with you. I used to be very clear and that wasn’t listened to,” she stated.
She was interviewed on 11 November 2020, 9 months earlier than Mendy was charged with any sexual offences by Higher Manchester police.
Mendy denies the entire expenses in opposition to him.
The trial continues.
