Jury hears Benjamin Mendy told alleged victim 'you don't trust me'

Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy told an alleged victim 'you don't trust me', a jury has heard. The footballer, 28, also allegedly told the woman, who claims he raped her during a party at his house: "All these women want to f*** me."

Jurors watched a police interview with the woman in which she tells a detective she was invited to Mendy's house in July last year. She said she had been playing Jenga and a dare game with the French International and his friends in the kitchen.

Chester Crown Court heard Mendy then asked her to come downstairs and they began kissing by the swimming pool before he pulled his pants down. She told police: "His language was quite direct and crude. He said 'you don't trust me?' and I said 'I don't know you'.

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"He was like 'all these women want to f**k me' and I was like 'okay'. I think he was saying stuff to make me want to do stuff with him. I was like I'm not doing anything like that and I literally had to give excuses as to why. It was like arguing with a brick wall."

She said she told Mendy she did not want to have sex with him as she had to get to work, that she was not on contraception so didn't want to get pregnant and she was also worried it would be painful.

The woman said: "It wasn’t something I would want to do, especially with someone I don’t know. And I was sober as well so I was very aware of everything. And I was like I don’t want to do anything, I don’t know you, I would rather get to know someone better, it wouldn’t even be enjoyable for me.

"He said 'it's small, don't worry' and I said 'that's not helping'. We just ended up having sex and it wasn’t long or anything - within 20 seconds it was