A young person who accused footballer Benjamin Mendy of raping her requested for his Manchester City teammate Jack Grealish’s telephone quantity hours after she claims the assault passed off, a courtroom has heard.
The girl alleged that 28-year-old Mendy raped her twice then, later the identical day the Frenchman’s good friend and co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, additionally raped her twice throughout a post-clubbing “after-party” attended by Grealish and others at Mendy’s Cheshire mansion on 23 August final 12 months.
Both defendants deny sexually assaulting the younger girl.
The teenager stated she requested Matturie for Mr Grealish’s telephone quantity as a result of she needed to contact a lady she had seen with Mr Grealish on the celebration, Chester Crown Court was informed.
Messages the-then 17-year-old despatched to pals after leaving the celebration after the alleged rapes had been learn to the jury, after the trial resumed following a three-week break.
Defending Matturie, Lisa Wilding KC, learn one message from {the teenager}, which stated: “Jack Grealish is so sexy in person, he had been winking at you all night and saying how beautiful you were, but you did not sleep with him because you are not easy but you were invited out with them all next week.”
Ms Wilding went on: “These messages reveal how you really were that morning, happy, you had had a great night, that’s the truth of it?”
“No, that’s not true,” the witness replied.
Ms Wilding stated the younger girl started to fret what her boyfriend would say if he came upon she’d had intercourse with two males that night time, that she allegedly acquired “carried away” and claimed she’d been raped.
Earlier, the trial heard {the teenager} and different younger ladies went to Mendy’s Cheshire dwelling after a go to to China White nightclub in Manchester.
She claims Mendy raped her twice within the workplace and trophy room on the home, and alleges Matturie raped her within the cinema room and later at his house close to Manchester metropolis centre.
‘Excitable’ voicemail recordings
The jury has additionally heard about “excitable” voicemail recordings made by {the teenager} and despatched to her pals in a Snapchat group the day after the celebration.
In them, {the teenager} informed pals: “Honest to God. Peak of my life…The Dom has gone to my head. Don’t you just love champagne when it’s one thousand five hundred quid?”
Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one depend of tried rape and one depend of sexual assault towards six younger ladies.
Matturie of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault regarding seven younger ladies.
Both males say, if any intercourse did happen with ladies or women, it was consensual.
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”