Most of the charges against him, the former French international of Manchester City Benjamin Mendy she will appear in a British court again on Monday to face a retrial for rape and attempted rape. After five months of trial and 14 days of deliberation, the 28-year-old player was found not guilty of six counts of rape and one sexual assault at the end of January.
The jury failed to reach a verdict in two cases, related to the rape of a 24-year-old woman in October 2020 and the attempted rape of a 29-year-old woman in 2018, which will be retried within three weeks in Chester, North England). After the verdict was announced, the player’s lawyer, 2018 world champion Jenny Wiltshire, stressed that he was “anxious to clear his name” so he could “start rebuilding his life”.
The defender, suspended by a Manchester City who did not renew his contract, faces life in prison. At the hearing, which began in August, the prosecution portrayed Benjamin Mendy as a “predator” who abused “vulnerable, frightened and isolated” victims. The footballer denied he was “a danger to women”, saying he only had consensual sex.
His co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie (no relation to former footballer Louis Saha), was found not guilty of three counts of rape and a jury returned no verdicts on a further three counts of rape and three number of sexual assaults.
After four months of hearings, the jury, made up of eight men and four women, retired to deliberate on December 5, but deliberations were interrupted several times by Covid-19 and then by of the long-planned recess. a truce during the Christmas season.
Source: La Verdad
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