BENJAMIN Mendy told his rape trial today he whispered to an alleged victim “I’m going to kidnap you” as she danced with her boyfriend in a club.
The Manchester City star also said “we can have what we wanted” – meaning sex – after he discovered her showering at his home.
Mendy, 28, told jurors he met the complainant, named Woman One in court, while recovering from an injury in Barcelona in 2017.
Around a year later, she joined him on a night out in Manchester where the footballer claims they “flirted” and “danced together”.
He claimed they were “both smiling” when he whispered “I am going to kidnap you” her as she danced with her boyfriend, who was one of Mendy’s pals.
The group all headed back to his mansion where Woman One claims he grabbed her and attempted to rape her on a bed.
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But the footballer said today she flirted with him and they began touching each other after he saw her coming from the shower looking “sexy”.
He told Chester Crown Court the woman then turned him down for sex as she had a boyfriend.
Mendy told her boyfriend was “fine with that” – causing her to become “upset”.
He said: “I realise it is disrespectful and bad, I asked him if it was OK if I tried to have sex with her. He told me yes.”
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The left-back said he later arranged for his driver to take her to the train station.
He was also asked about a second alleged victim, woman Two, who claims he raped her three times at his home.
Mendy told the court they did not have sex but he was left feeling “confused and shocked” when she texted his co-accused Louis Saha Matturie about what she thought happened.
His second day of evidence comes after Mendy yesterday told it was “honestly, so easy” for him to meet up with women and have sex “because of the status”.
The French international said the attention became “10 times more” when he began playing for Man City and admitted he is “no Brad Pitt.
He also told jurors he would often sleep with different women on the same night, admitting: “For me it was normal, I realised just now it sounds bad.”
Mendy has been described as a “predator” who “turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game”.
He is accused of seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
The star allegedly locked women in “panic rooms” at his isolated mansion in Cheshire while hosting parties.
Some of his alleged victims claim their phones were taken away from them on arrival, which the prosecution say left them unable to call for help.
Mendy is on trial with co-defendant Matturie, 41, who was an alleged “fixer” in charge of finding women for sex.
He denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.
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Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.
The trial continues.
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