Wednesday 14 September 2022 07:02 PM Manchester City star Benjamin Mendy's 'fixer' friend 'raped woman after her ... trends now
A woman was raped hours after celebrating her 19th birthday party by the alleged fixer for soccer star Benjamin Mendy, a court heard yesterday.
The woman, who is now 20, told the Mendy rape trial yesterday that she was raped by the star's co accused Louis Saha Matturie after going to his flat in March last year.
She said in a pre recorded interview played to the jury at Chester Crown Court that she had been hosting her birthday party at her own flat in Manchester when it was shut down by security guards.
A friend suggested that they went to Matturie's apartment where they had drinks and she inhaled from a nitrous oxide balloon.
When they arrived at around 3am they found Matturie, known as Saha, with another friend.
She said that Saha was told that it was her birthday and he said 'let's have some drinks for the birthday girl' before mixing drinks as they listened to music.
A woman, now 20, told the Mendy rape trial yesterday that she was raped by the star's co accused Louis Saha Matturie (pictured at Chester Crown Court) after going to his flat in March last year
Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy (left), at Chester crown court where he is charged with multiple rapes and sexual assaults, with his barrister Eleanor Laws KC (right)
The woman told the jury: 'I was drunk but not staggering. But after that I sort of blacked out. Normally you have flashes of what happened but I could not remember anything at all.
'I don't know whether my drink had
