Timothy Cray QC, prosecuting Mendy, 28, who denies multiple sex assaults, asked the friend: “How did she look to you?” The witness replied: “She looked like she had seen a ghost.
Mendy and a fellow defendant are accused of multiple counts of rape
According to her friend, a young woman who accused Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy of rape ‘looked like she’s seen a ghost’ after the alleged attack. The trial is currently ongoing at Chester Crown Court, where Mendy and a fellow defendant are accused of multiple counts of rape. The friend said she had gone to look for the 20-year-old, who she regarded ‘like a sister’, after she had gone missing with Mendy for around 20 minutes during a party at the Manchester City star’s 4.8 million pound Cheshire mansion. The friend told the jury how she found her friend coming downstairs from an upstairs bedroom, according to the Daily Mail. Timothy Cray QC, prosecuting Mendy, 28, who denies multiple sex assaults, asked the friend: “How did she look to you?” The witness replied: “She looked like she had seen a ghost. She looked blank. She looked dead.”
The player denies eight counts of rape
The complainant was then very keen to leave the party, and she brushed the incident off to her friend when questions were asked about what had happened to make her look so shocked. But she also talked about “being in a situation where you don’t want to do something, feel pressured, so you just go along with something”, the friend told the jury. She said that the morning after, the complainant said Mendy had promised not to touch her if she stripped while he looked at her but then “forced” her down on a bed and raped her. Mendy denies eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against seven young women. Co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, is the footballer’s friend and fixer, alleged to have had the job of finding young women for sex.
Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault relating to eight young women. Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls, it was consensual.