Man City’s Benjamin Mendy Not Guilty of R3pe Charge - Court

 

Chester Crown Court has found Manchester City’s defender, Benjamin Mendy not guilty.

 

He was found not guilty of seven of the nine r3pe charges against him.

 

After a trial lasting almost five months, the defender has been cleared of six counts of r3pe and one count of s#xual assault.

 

However, after 13 days of deliberation at Chester Crown Court, the jury has been unable to reach verdicts on two other charges against Mendy – one count of r3pe, involving a woman aged 24 in October 2020, and one count of attempted r3pe, involving a woman aged 29 in October 2018.

 

The Crown Prosecution Service has seven days to decide whether to pursue a retrial on the two charges where a verdict could not be agreed.

 

Mendy held his head in his hands as the verdicts were read out.

 

Mendy’s co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, has been found not guilty of three charges.

 

He faces a possible retrial on six charges.

 

Manchester City suspended Mendy when he was arrested in August 2021 and stopped paying him in September 2021.

 

His contract expires this summer.