Mendy, 28, is accused of eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, and one count of sexual assault. In one incident, Mendy allegedly took the victim's phone from her and started looking at intimate pictures she kept on her phone.
When she tried to get it back, he told her: "I'll give you your phone back if you take your clothes off," the court was told. The woman stripped to her underwear and went to grab her phone when Mendy came up behind her and raped her three times despite the woman's protests, the prosecution alleged.
On another occasion in Mendy's Cheshire mansion, a woman had to clench her knees together to stop him from raping her, the court was told. The Manchester City footballer is co-accused with Louis Saha Matturie, referred to in court as a "fixer who found young women for Mendy”.
Matturie, 40, is accused of eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault. Both men deny the charges against them.
One woman, who stayed over at Mendy's house after a pool party, was allegedly woken from sleep by him raping her. When her underwear was forensically examined, DNA was found from both Mendy and Saha Matturie - despite the woman having no memory of having sex with Saha Matturie.
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