Manchester City defender, Benjamin Mendy told police that he was ‘shocked’ to be accused of rape during parties at his mansion home, a court heard yesterday.
The French footballer insisted that all the sexual acts between him and the complainants was consensual, the jury at Chester Crown Court was told.
Prosecutor Tim Cray KC yesterday read a series of prepared statements which Mendy had made to police after he had been arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assaults at his £4.7 million home in Prestbury, Cheshire.
The jury were told that the £52 million star was interviewed in November 2020 about allegations made by one complainant who alleged she had been raped three times in a locked room at the mansion.
Mendy told police in his prepared statement that he had met the complainant in Parea nightclub in Alderley Edge , Cheshire the previous month.
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He invited her back to his house and they were in the pool area when he noticed her taking a video which he asked her to delete.
He told police:’ She gave me her phone and I deleted it. A photo of her with no clothes on came on the screen .She said she had more photographs like that and we agreed to go upstairs to my bedroom where she could show me .
‘The door is locked from the outside . I opened it using the key pad . It was open from the inside and she could have left at any time. She showed me more naked photos and we went to the bed.
‘We started kissing and she removed her bra. I asked her to perform oral sex on me and she said ok but she did not want to do anything else. I said that was fine, we could just play around.
