Teenager claims she woke up to discover Benjamin Mendy’s friend raping her

A teenager told police she woke up to discover Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy’s friend and fixer raping her, a court heard.

The young woman, at the time aged 17, said she had gone to Louis Saha Matturie’s flat near Manchester city centre with a friend in the early hours of April 8th last year.

Matturie (41), and another man, identified only by the name ‘Ghost’ or ‘G’, was also there and the four of them spent time playing cards, Chester Crown Court heard.

The 17-year-old said she became tired and Matturie told her she could use the spare bedroom to sleep.

But she was later awoken by being fondled before being raped, she said.

The young woman said she thought the person ‘spooning’ her from behind was the man known as Ghost, but the person had a hood up over his face and did not say anything to her.

It was only after the alleged attack finished and he got up that she realised it was Matturie, she said.

“I started crying,” she told police in a video interview played to the jury.

“I just sat there for a moment, ‘What the hell!’ I ran out crying.

“When it was happening, I was not properly awake. There was a point where I properly woke up and he got off me.

“It doesn’t sound like a big deal but it was horrible at the time.”

But Lisa Wilding KC, defending Matturie, questioned the witness’s version of events.

The court heard in March last year, a month before Matturie had allegedly raped the 17-year-old, her friend, aged 19, had told her that she woke up being raped by the defendant.

Under cross-examination Lisa Wilding KC, defending Matturie, asked the teenager: “She was saying Saha was a rapist. After she told you that, you carried on going back to the flat?”

“Yes,” she replied.

Ms Wilding suggested she was fully