A lady who claims she was sexually assaulted by Benjamin Mendy’s buddy mentioned he later began speaking to her about God.
The girl, who was 18 on the time, mentioned the Manchester City footballer’s alleged fixer, Louis Saha Matturie, pressured himself on her at a celebration attended by a number of Premier League footballers.
She claims she was attacked by Matturie at a home in Sheffield in 2016 the place then Sheffield Wednesday participant Claude Dielna and his brother Joel lived.
The jury at Chester Crown Court heard the witness was not a soccer fan, and at one social gathering she did not recognise Manchester United defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka, who turned “mardy” and requested her: “Do you know who I am?”
In a 2016 police video interview performed to the jury, the lady mentioned she lived and labored in Sheffield and acquired to know footballers at a shisha bar within the metropolis.
One day she was on the home within the metropolis owned by French participant Dielna, who had left to go coaching.
She was sitting on a mattress chatting to Matturie when he sexually assaulted her, the court docket heard.
Tearfully, she advised police: “He started to kiss me. I said, ‘What are you doing?’.
“He pressured himself on prime of me. I advised him to get off. He mentioned, ‘Just take pleasure in it’.
“I was shouting at him, ‘Get off! Get off! Stop!’.”
She claims Matturie groped her earlier than he stopped and acquired off her, then she grabbed her telephone, fled the home and didn’t reply to his social media messages.
Matturie denies assaulting her on a day between September 30 and November 1 2016.
‘Do you realize who I’m?’
Later she started attending golf equipment and events in Manchester, the place she ran into him once more at a membership.
“He said let’s just forget about the past and started preaching to me about God,” she advised police.
“I said, ‘Yes. Whatever’.”
At one other social gathering in March final 12 months, at a flat close to Manchester metropolis centre, she alleges Mendy and Wan-Bissaka each attended together with greater than 20 ladies, who got here at Matturie’s invitation.
At the social gathering she claims Wan-Bissaka requested her: “Do you know who I am?”
She continued: “I said, ‘I don’t know who you are’.
“He confirmed me his Instagram after which I realised who he was. He acquired a bit mardy.”
Prosecutors allege Mendy is a “predator” who “turned the pursuit of girls for intercourse right into a sport”, whereas Matturie had the job of discovering the ladies.
Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one rely of tried rape and one rely of sexual assault in opposition to six younger ladies.
Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault regarding seven younger ladies.
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”