: Football: Manchester City’s Benjamin Mendy termed ‘predator’ as rape trial begins #IndiaNEWS An English court on Monday heard that Manchester City and France footballer Benjamin Mendy, on trial

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Football: Manchester City’s Benjamin Mendy termed ‘predator’ as rape trial begins #IndiaNEWS
An English court on Monday heard that Manchester City and France footballer Benjamin Mendy, on trial for rape and sexual assault, was a “predator� who callously pursued vulnerable women.Mendy, 28, is on trial at Chester Crown Court in northwest England, facing eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape, relating to seven young women.The Premier League star has pleaded not guilty to all the charges in a complex trial that is expected to last 15 weeks.The jury trial opened last week and the prosecution began their opening arguments on Monday.Prosecutor Timothy Cray told the court that Mendy and his co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie, were “predators, who were prepared to commit serious sexual offences� as they pursued women.Cray alleged that Mendy behaved with “callous indifference� to women who were “vulnerable, scared, isolated�.Matturie’s job was “to find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted�, he argued.The men “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game and if women got hurt or distressed, too bad,� the lawyer said.The alleged offences are said to have taken place between July 2012 and August last year.Matturie, 40, has also pleaded not guilty to eight counts of...Read more

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