Benjamin Mendy has instructed his rape trial that he “enjoyed having sex with lots of women”.
The Manchester City participant, who denies the costs in opposition to him, stated that it was “honestly, so easy” for him to fulfill girls, including that it was “normal” for him to sleep with a number of girls on the identical night time.
Wearing a navy blue go well with, white shirt and tie, Mendy stated he started to obtain consideration from girls when he was 18 and taking part in for Marseille.
When requested by Eleanor Laws KC, defending, if he realised why, he stated: “At the beginning, no, but after, yes. Because of status.”
When he joined Manchester City in 2017, he stated, the eye turned “10 times more”.
The 28-year-old France worldwide stated: “The way they came to me, it’s not because of my look, it’s because of football.”
Asked about his angle to having intercourse with girls he didn’t know properly, he stated: “At the time I was not thinking like how they were feeling or they can be upset because, for me, if they wanted to have sex and I wanted to, everything was fine and I would carry on my partying.”
He added he was having fun with “having sex with a lot of women,” but when a lady stated “no” he would “accept it and stop”.
The World Cup winner stated he “didn’t worry” about utilizing contraception though he “knew the risks”.
When requested why he carried on having events with girls he did not know after his preliminary arrest, Mendy stated: “I did nothing wrong so I was just like, carry on.”
Ms Laws stated: “Is that something you regret now?”
Mendy replied: “Yeah.”
He stated: “When I was in prison it made me realise a lot of things. The partying I was doing, inside I had some pain.”
He instructed the courtroom he had been injured plenty of instances whereas at City.
Asked what he thought now about girls, he stated: “I didn’t know I can hurt their feelings if we were both OK to have sex.”
He stated he realised the best way he would generally talk about girls was “disrespectful”.
Mendy instructed the courtroom jail was the primary time in his life he was engaged on one thing apart from soccer and would earn £4 a day which he would spend within the canteen.
He stated: “For the first time I was really careful, like ‘I need to buy this but if I get that I can’t have that’. The life I had before, everything I wanted to have I just bought it.
“So it taught me the worth of cash.”
Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one depend of tried rape and one depend of sexual assault in opposition to six younger girls.
His good friend and ‘fixer’ Louis Saha Matturie, 41, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault regarding seven younger girls.
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”