Benjamin Mendy 'told a kidnapping joke' before 'attacking a woman' - 'He kept pulling me down'

Benjamin Mendy was tried in court after joking that he "kidnapped" a woman partying in a Manchester nightclub, then tried to rape her at his home the next day. rice field.

A jury at Chester Criminal Court heard details on her third day of trial for a Manchester City defender accused of assaulting her 29-year-old woman in October 2018.

The woman had met Mendy and her friend a year ago. She told the police that she liked one of Mendy's friends, but Mendy fell in love with her.She then went to Manchester the following year and met Mendy's friend at the football player's house.

She met up with her Mendy, his friends, etc. at a restaurant and had a drinking party before she went to two nightclubs. The woman was with Mendy's friend at the club second when Mendy allegedly told her: "When he's not looking, I'm going to kidnap you." In a statement made at Walworth Police Station a year later in January 2022, he told police:

When she finally returned later that night to Mendy's home in Cheshire, known as Spinney, ``I was drunk but conscious.'' The next morning she claimed Mendy suggested she get a cell phone charger from her room, but she said ``I had mine. I had it." I declined. She then said she was taking a shower upstairs in her room where she stayed with her door ajar "so she could hear", believing everyone else was downstairs to her. she claims When Mendy allegedly entered the bathroom, she was "completely naked" with music playing.

The woman saw Mendy enter the room "out of the corner of my eye," and told him, "He must leave," but he had "hit himself into the private area." She wrapped herself in a towel and tried to grab her underwear "to protect herself", but Mendy claimed she "continued to disturb me" and was held for about 20 minutes.

"He kept seeing me and taking my towel off," the woman told officers in a video shared in court. "I kept pushing him away and he kept grabbing me."

Prosecutor Timothy Clay QC said the woman told officers: He dragged her onto the bed and began to sit her down and hold her in her lap.

He kept pulling me down . We fell into the spoon position," the woman says in the video. "I just kept trying to squirm. He got very close, but I pushed him away as much as I could. I just kept thinking, 'Where are his friends?' Why aren't they here? Should I shout? What am I going to do?' I didn't scream," she added. "I was just trying to struggle to get out of it."

The woman did not remember how the situation ended, but she quickly packed up her things and changed clothes. , she said she left home and called a taxi. Mendy then told her to have her driver take her. “I was just embarrassed. “I felt depressed and anxious,” he said. I will explain the details.

The next day she made an appointment to meet her. . The doctor said he had not had intercourse since 2018, when he was the victim of an attempted rape, and this was linked to a current news story about Mendy. has been charged with one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault. He denies all charges.

He is currently the co-defendant who has pleaded not guilty to his eight counts of rape and his four counts of sexual assault between July 2012 and August 2021. He is on trial along with Louis Saha Matturie, 41.

His QC Cray, who is in prosecution, told court on Monday: Time and time again we hear about people looking for answers or creating situations where they don't even have a "no" option. ''

The trial he is scheduled to last for three months.