Benjamin Mendy

The trial of Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy and co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie is scheduled to continue today. Mr Mendy, 28, is accused of ...

The officer asks the woman if she had any ‘romantic contact’ with Mr Matturie or had flirted with him. Benjamin Mendy and his co-defendant Louis Matturie are back in the dock here at Chester Crown Court. The trial has now been adjourned for lunch. The trial has been adjourned until tomorrow morning. Woman Eight says that one of the two people present at the flat was Mr Matturie, who she did not know before that night. The woman tells the officer she did not consent to Mr Matturie having sex with her.

The French left-back remains on trial over seven counts of rape, one of attempted rape and another of sexual assault, against six women, all of which he denies.

Wilding then suggested she was looking into the camera “more than once, enjoying what you were doing”, which the woman tearfully denied. Lisa Wilding KC, defending Matturie, suggested that it was “consensual, willing and enthusiastic” sex and not rape, which the woman herself denied. She also denied being aware that the phone was in front of her during the sex.

A young woman claimed she blacked out after having drinks and drugs and came round with Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy's friend raping her.

I think as I came to consciousness he was on me. "It was all very blurry," she said. I think I was just very shocked. She was drunk but "not staggering", the court heard, but after more drinks at the flat, she "blacked out". In the police interview, which was played to the jury, she told detectives Mr Matturie, 41, had made her and her friend drinks, but he himself was not drinking. In a police interview, she said she had woken up on her back on a mattress with Mr Matturie lying on top of her.