Man City star Benjamin Mendy was this afternoon cleared of one count of rape and his alleged fixer of three other sex charges after a tape of one of the encounters was revealed in court.
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The alleged victim – known as Woman Seven – went to Louis Saha Matturie’s flat to collect balloons to fill with nitrous oxide – also known as laughing gas.
A jury heard claims she was then raped by the 41-year-old, who is being referred to as Saha during the trial.
It was alleged to have happened a week after she had claimed Mendy had raped her himself at his home,
But Chester Crown Court was told she had agreed to be filmed on Saha’s mobile and was said to have been shown smiling at the camera and gyrating. Judge Stephen Everett ordered Mendy and Saha be cleared of charges relating to that one woman.
He warned jurors not to speculate as to why the prosecution had decided not to pursue guilty verdicts in relation to the charges concerned and to continue to ‘faithfully’ try the defendants on the multiple charges they still face
Mendy, 28, had denied eight counts of rape against five women; one count of attempted rape; and one count of sexual assault.
The offences were alleged to have taken place on five different occasions at his Cheshire mansion between October 2018 and August last year, relating to seven women in total. Mendy denies all the charges.
Saha, 41, from Eccles, Salford, had pleaded not guilty to eight counts of rape; and four counts of sexual assault, relating to eight women.
Lisa Wilding, KC, for Saha, said Woman Seven had gone to the defendant’s home to have sex. He then began to film it on his mobile phone.
Miss Wilding said: ‘When you had sex with Saha, you and he filmed that sex, didn’t you?
‘You know that you and he had a discussion beforehand and said words to the effect of ‘let’s make our own little movie’.
‘And he had his phone in his hand right in front of you throughout the time that you and he were having sex.
And you looked directly at the camera more than once enjoying what you were doing?
‘You had sex initially with you on your knees and him behind you. You then gave him oral sex, didn’t you?
‘Did you give him oral sex looking at the camera that was in his hand at the time?
‘Did you then sit on top of him gyrating and smiling, looking at the camera?’
The woman, who was sobbing, denied knowing that Matturie had filmed it and said: ‘No, I didn’t consent to having sex with him?’
The jury was told the sex lasted around 20 minutes.
The woman said she was ‘ashamed’ about having sex with Matturie and denied Miss Wilding’s claims that she was ‘making noises and moaning as if you were sexually excited.’
The court was told how Woman Seven later sent videos of food she was eating while on holiday to Matturie.
Miss Wilding said Woman Seven had made up the allegations that she had been raped and sexually assaulted after speaking with her friends.
Miss Wilding said: ‘Did you then become a bit embarrassed about the fact that you had been happily engaging in a sexual relationship with a man who was older than you?
‘It was when in discussion with your friends they started saying to you ‘what’s between you and him is weird because he is older’, that you decided to say what he had done to you was rape.’
The woman – giving evidence at Chester Crown Court – denied this.
The alleged rape is said to have occurred on between July 31 and August 1, 2021.
Both men deny all of the charges.
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