Footballer Benjamin Mendy Faces Retrial For Alleged Sex Offences
French footballer Benjamin Mendy will return to a UK courtroom Monday for the beginning of his retrial for 2 alleged sexual offences, 5 months after a jury cleared him of a number of different counts. Manchester Metropolis participant Mendy, 28, might be again within the dock at Chester Crown Court docket in northwest England to face one depend of rape and one in every of tried rape. Jurors in his final trial, which resulted in January, failed to achieve verdicts on the 2 fees involving two completely different ladies. The panel of seven males and 4 ladies had cleared the defender of six different counts of rape and one in every of sexual assault in opposition to 4 ladies following a six-month trial. The decide in January had instantly set a brand new trial date of Monday for the 2 counts on which the jury didn’t return a verdict. Mendy, whose contract with Manchester Metropolis expires on the finish of this month and is reportedly not set to be renewed, has denied all the fees filed in opposition to him. Because the not responsible verdicts had been learn out in court docket in January, Mendy…