Wednesday 17 August 2022 02:37 PM Man City star Benjamin Mendy 'told woman, 29, 'I'm going to kidnap you' trends now
Man City footballer Benjamin Mendy told a woman 'I'm going to kidnap you' before exposing his penis to her at his mansion the next morning and raping her, a court heard today.
The French international, 28, 'pushed' the 29-year-old woman down onto a bed and tried to hold her on his lap, jurors heard.
Mendy is accused of eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault, relating to seven young women.
During a police interview played to the jury today, Mendy's first accuser - known as Woman A - said she first met the footballer in a club in Barcelona in October 2017.
She liked one of his friends, part of his 'entourage', but Mendy took a liking to her, she told the officer.
She said Mendy was injured at the time and did not want people taking pictures or videos of him in the club.
A year later, on October 24, 2018, she travelled to Manchester to see Mendy's friend at the footballer's house.
After arriving they went out to a restaurant in Manchester and were joined by two Brazilian girls and they all enjoyed some drinking games.
They then went to a club and champagne was ordered before they went on to a second nightclub where she was with Mendy's friend when the footballer approached her.
She said: 'At one point he came up to me and said, 'When he's not looking, I'm going to kidnap you'. I thought he was joking.'
Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy arrives at Chester Crown Court this morning followed by his co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie
Mendy is on trial at Chester Crown Court accused of eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, and one count of sexual assault
They returned to Mendy's house and she spent the night in a bedroom with Mendy's friend.
The next morning she went downstairs to look for a phone charger for her phone and the Man City player was sat on a settee.
'When he saw me, he said, 'Come back here!'' the woman said.
She said she declined Mendy's offer to go to his bedroom to get a phone charger but he began 'teasing' her over the charger.
She returned to the bedroom she was staying in, closed the door and got in the shower.
While there, 'in the corner of my eye' she saw Mendy enter the room.
She said: 'I left the door to the bathroom slightly ajar. I was in the shower, completely naked.
'I saw him walk in. He was wearing white boxer shorts. He dropped them. I saw him rub himself on his private area. I said to him: ''You need to leave''.'
She continued: 'He stepped back for a bit but then he came in and I managed to wrap myself with a towel.
'As I came out, he was there. He kept following me around as I went straight to my bag to get my underwear. I couldn't remember exactly what he said but he kept on obstructing me.
'He kept forcing himself against me and I tried to keep
