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He bursts into tears upon hearing the verdict. “Mr. Mendy can leave the dock,” said the judge. The player’s legal nightmare comes to an end. “He wishes to thank the members of the jury for having focused on the evidence, rather than on the rumors and insinuations which have pursued this case from the start, immediately wrote his lawyer Jenny Wiltshire in a press release. He tried hard to stay strong, but the proceedings inevitably had a big impact on him. He thanks everyone who supported him through this ordeal and now asks for his privacy to be respected so he can begin to rebuild his life. »
Benjamin Mendy was accused of sexual violence for the second time. During a first trial, eleven jurors had already declared him not guilty for six rapes and one sexual assault on five women. They had failed to decide on two charges. The new popular jury, charged with re-examining these two complaints, delivered its verdict unanimously in just over three hours this Friday in the wooded room of the courthouse in Chester. The athlete is now completely out of the clutches of justice.
His lawyer fiercely defended Mendy
One of the women claimed that the player had tried to rape her. The assault allegedly took place in a bathroom of the player’s home while the complainant was taking a shower. The player allegedly snatched her bra from her hands when she was trying to get dressed. In her testimony, she maintained that she “kept saying stop and no…I was in shock. I was not in a place that was familiar to me. »
The second complainant alleges rape. The young woman had followed Mendy to her room because he had confiscated her cell phone. The world champion only wanted images of him in the evening to appear on social networks. “I just wanted to get my phone back,” the complainant said. She had felt “trapped” in the room, locked by a code that only he knew. “The door opened from the inside”, defended Benjamin Mendy. But she didn’t know that. He had bragged to her that he had “slept with over 10,000 women.” »
Suspended by Manchester
During this second trial, the native of Longjumeau admitted that at the time, he made fun of “the feelings of these women. I didn’t know I could hurt them. He admitted to having had many one-night stands.
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He hosted boozy parties at his mansion in Prestbury, in the English countryside near Manchester. An “isolated” residence, pointed out the accusation, in which he and his friend Louis Saha Matturie would have “benefited” from these women. “What Mendy wants, Mendy gets,” said the lawyer for the last two plaintiffs.
The international has always denied raping or assaulting them. His lawyer, Eleanor Laws fiercely defended him. She dissected the testimonies of the complainants, discredited them, highlighting inconsistencies, such as their membership in a WhatsApp group when they claimed not to know each other, or pointing to messages sent by one of them, different of his version of the facts. “If you have any doubts,” she told the jury, “then you must acquit him.” Suspended from Manchester City two years ago, his contract with the club has just expired.
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