City ace Mendy ‘raped women in panic rooms’ ‘SPECIAL LOCKS’ KEPT VICTIMS IN MANSION
MANCHESTER City star Benjamin Mendy was a panic room ‘predator’ who recruited a ‘fixer’ to find him women to rape behind the locked gates of his mansion, a jury heard.
Nine women who arrived at the French World Cup winner’s posh pad later claimed they had been sexually attacked by Mendy or his ‘helper’ Louis Saha Matturie. Mendy (28) supplied his pal with a flat and in return Saha – as he is known – delivered the footballer girls, it was alleged.
The €61.7m defender allegedly raped two in his office and master bedroom – both of which had been turned into panic rooms with ‘special locks’ designed to keep out intruders. Tim Cray, prosecuting, said: “The legitimate purpose of these locks is that if you are likely to be a target for burglars they create a panic room. You can’t get in from the outside but you can open them from the inside if you know what to do.
“The point is you have to know how to open them from the inside.
“The witnesses get the impression, when taken there by Mendy, they are locked in.’’
In total Mendy is accused of raping seven women in his home – three at the pool party.
The prosecutor said because of his ‘wealth and status’, others were “prepared to help him to get what he wanted”.
Callous
He claimed that Mendy and his ‘helper’, friend’ and ‘fixer’ Saha were “predators prepared to commit serious sexual offences”.
“The allegations show that one of Saha’s jobs for Mendy was to find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted,’’ he said.
“The acts that the defendants did together show callous indifference to the women they went after.
“In their minds, and this could not be clearer, the stream of women they brought to their homes existed purely to be pursued for sex.’’
Mr Cray said at the same pool bash Mendy committed three rapes on two women aged 19 and the other 22.
One of the 19-year-olds was also said to be raped by Saha who is accused of sexually assaulting a fourth woman during the same 24-hour period.
Mendy is said to have forced himself on another woman when he walked in on her in the shower after she had spent the night at his mansion with another of his pals.
The alleged victims were as young as 17, a jury at Chester
Crown Court heard.
Mendy denies eight rapes, an attempted rape and a sexual assault on seven women between October 2018 and August last year (2021). Saha denies eight rapes and four sexual assaults on eight women.
Mr Cray said Mendy enjoyed a ‘privileged and moneyed lifestyle’ and displayed a ‘callous indifference’ to his accusers. He was ‘prepared to cross that line’ of consent ‘over and over again’ and if ‘women got hurt or distressed, too bad’.
Mr Cray told the jury: “The prosecution case is simple – it has little to do with football. “Instead, we say, it is another chapter in a very old story – men who rape and sexually assault women because they think they are powerful and because they think they can get away with it.’’
Mr Cray said the feelings of the alleged victims ‘counted for nothing’, adding: “These women were disposable, things to be used for sex, then thrown to one side.”
The trial continues.