Premier League players’ names read to jurors in Benjamin Mendy trial | Football
Potential jurors within the sexual offences trial of Manchester Metropolis footballer Benjamin Mendy have been requested if they’ve connections to 5 Premier League gamers. Mendy, 28, denies eight counts of rape, one in all tried rape and one sexual assault towards seven complainants. The offences are alleged to have taken place between October 2018 and August final 12 months. The names of Raheem Sterling, Jack Grealish, Kyle Walker, Riyad Mahrez and John Stones – who all both play for or beforehand performed for Metropolis – have been learn to a jury panel at Chester Crown Court docket on Wednesday forward of the trial, which is predicted to open on Monday. The potential jurors, chosen from a panel of 38, heard a listing of people that could also be witnesses or could possibly be referred to through the trial and have been requested whether or not they had any connection to them or knew them personally. Mendy pleaded not responsible to one of many counts of rape on Wednesday, having entered not responsible pleas to the opposite 9 costs at earlier hearings. Mendy, who wore a blue go well with, is standing trial alongside Louis Saha…