An English jury found Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy not guilty Friday on six charges of rape and one count of sexual assault after several women accused him of committing the crimes over a multiyear period.
Police charged Mendy, 28, with the crimes after four women accused him of rape, a fifth woman accused him of attempted rape and a sixth woman accused him of sexual assault.
The judge in the case already had dismissed one rape charge against Matturie after video emerged showing a woman having what the judge described as “enthusiastic and obviously consensual sex” with him in an instance she previously had alleged as rape., Mendy’s defense team used this video to claim the rest of the women who had accused Mendy and Matturie were making up their stories.
“What you have actually seen with your own eyes in this case is — I hesitate to use the word — a real life liar,” Eleanor Laws, one of Mendy’s attorneys, said in her closing argument. “Someone who has made serious criminal allegations against two men. And you have watched it play out, unusually, in front of your eyes. Because when ever does a defendant have a film to prove their innocence? Hardly ever.
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