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Mendy told woman her boyfriend had agreed sex, court told

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Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy told a woman he is accused of trying to rape that her boyfriend had said it would be "OK" if they had sex, a court heard.Mr Mendy said only now did he understand why the young woman then got upset, the jury at his rape trial at Chester Crown Court heard.The 28-year-old Premier League star sat in the witness box as his lawyer, Eleanor Laws KC, began taking him through the first of the nine allegations he faces involving six different women.The first woman to accuse him of sex offences was aged 29 at the time and had gone to his house in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, in October 2018.She told the jury she made it clear she was interested in her boyfriend, not Mr Mendy, but he grabbed her and tried to rape her on a bed.Earlier Mr Mendy, the woman and others had been out clubbing in Manchester and then all stayed the night at Mr Mendy's home with the woman sleeping in a bedroom with her boyfriend, one of the footballer's friends.The morning after, Mr Mendy said he asked his friend how he would feel if he tried to have sex with her.The footballer, speaking in a strong French accent, told the jury: "I realise it is disrespectful and bad, I asked him if it was OK if I tried to have sex with her.

He told me yes."Mr Mendy said he went to the bedroom where she was having a shower and told her she was "sexy".Wearing just a towel the woman flirted with him, he said, and then they began touching each other."Then I ask her if we can have sex.

Then, [she said] 'No, because of my boyfriend'," to which Mr Mendy told her: "He was fine with that."Mr Mendy continued: "She started to be upset.

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