CHESTER (United Kingdom): An English courtroom on Monday heard that Manchester Metropolis and France footballer Benjamin Mendy, on trial for rape and sexual assault, was a “predator” who callously pursued susceptible girls.
Mendy, 28, is on trial at Chester Crown Courtroom in northwest England, dealing with eight counts of rape, one depend of sexual assault and one depend of tried rape, regarding seven younger girls.
The Premier League star has pleaded not responsible to all the fees in a fancy trial that’s anticipated to final 15 weeks.
The jury trial opened final week and the prosecution started their opening arguments on Monday.
Prosecutor Timothy Cray instructed the courtroom that Mendy and his co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie, have been “predators, who were prepared to commit serious sexual offences” as they pursued girls.
Cray alleged that Mendy behaved with “callous indifference” to girls who have been “vulnerable, scared, isolated”.
Matturie’s job was “to find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted”, he argued.
The boys “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game and if women got hurt or distressed, too bad,” the lawyer stated.
The alleged offences are stated to have taken place between July 2012 and August final 12 months.
Matturie, 40, has additionally pleaded not responsible to eight counts of rape and 4 counts of sexual assault.
Not one of the girls stated to have been assaulted might be named beneath English legislation, which additionally locations restrictions on what might be reported in regards to the case.
Mendy joined Premier League champions Metropolis from French facet Monaco in 2017. He has performed 75 instances for Manchester Metropolis, however his enjoying time was restricted by accidents and a lack of type.
He was suspended by Metropolis after being charged by police in August final 12 months.
The final of Mendy’s 10 worldwide caps got here in November 2019. The defender picked up a World Cup winner’s medal after enjoying simply 40 minutes of France’s profitable 2018 marketing campaign in Russia.
The trial comes as former Manchester United star participant and Wales supervisor Ryan Giggs is on trial at Manchester Crown Courtroom on expenses of assaulting his former accomplice by headbutting her and submitting her to controlling and coercive behaviour.
Mendy, 28, is on trial at Chester Crown Courtroom in northwest England, dealing with eight counts of rape, one depend of sexual assault and one depend of tried rape, regarding seven younger girls.
The Premier League star has pleaded not responsible to all the fees in a fancy trial that’s anticipated to final 15 weeks.
The jury trial opened final week and the prosecution started their opening arguments on Monday.
Prosecutor Timothy Cray instructed the courtroom that Mendy and his co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie, have been “predators, who were prepared to commit serious sexual offences” as they pursued girls.
Cray alleged that Mendy behaved with “callous indifference” to girls who have been “vulnerable, scared, isolated”.
Matturie’s job was “to find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted”, he argued.
The boys “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game and if women got hurt or distressed, too bad,” the lawyer stated.
The alleged offences are stated to have taken place between July 2012 and August final 12 months.
Matturie, 40, has additionally pleaded not responsible to eight counts of rape and 4 counts of sexual assault.
Not one of the girls stated to have been assaulted might be named beneath English legislation, which additionally locations restrictions on what might be reported in regards to the case.
Mendy joined Premier League champions Metropolis from French facet Monaco in 2017. He has performed 75 instances for Manchester Metropolis, however his enjoying time was restricted by accidents and a lack of type.
He was suspended by Metropolis after being charged by police in August final 12 months.
The final of Mendy’s 10 worldwide caps got here in November 2019. The defender picked up a World Cup winner’s medal after enjoying simply 40 minutes of France’s profitable 2018 marketing campaign in Russia.
The trial comes as former Manchester United star participant and Wales supervisor Ryan Giggs is on trial at Manchester Crown Courtroom on expenses of assaulting his former accomplice by headbutting her and submitting her to controlling and coercive behaviour.
