Benjamin Mendy told accuser ‘I have had sex with 10,000 women’, court hears

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy raped a woman and moments later told her, “It’s fine, I have had sex with 10,000 women”, a court has heard.

Mendy (28) is accused of multiple sex offences, with prosecutors claiming he is a “predator” who “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game”.

Chester Crown Court was told that he left the 20-year-old woman bleeding from the alleged sex assault, then said to her, “Don’t tell anyone and you can come over here every night”, like it was a “privilege” to have sex with him.

On the fourth day of the trial, the 20-year-old accuser’s tearful police interview was played to the jury.

His co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie (41) Mendy’s friend and fixer, had the job of finding young women for sex, it is alleged.

The court heard she had been out with three friends at a bar called Parea in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, on a Sunday night in October 2020.

They had a table and got talking to three “black guys”, with Mendy buying drinks, and when the bar closed she and her friends and other girls were invited back to the footballer’s mansion, The Spinney, in Mottram St Andrew, an isolated village nearby.

At the house she sat down near the indoor swimming pool and started scrolling through her phone, but Mendy came over and grabbed it from her hand claiming she was taking photos of him and saying he could be “fined” hundreds of thousands of pounds, the court heard.

She told the jury that Mendy walked up some stairs saying he was checking the phone, and as it was unlocked he started going through her “private pictures”.

He went through a door, opened by a fingerprint touchscreen, and she followed him into a bedroom and the door closed behind them, she said.

She told the court that she said to