A woman tells a court of her experience at a party attended by rape-accused footballer Benjamin Mendy.
A woman has told how she saw and heard a girl screaming "rape, rape" at a party attended by footballer Benjamin Mendy.His trial heard how co-accused Louis Saha Matturie started shouting at the woman to "shut up" as police banged on the door to break up the gathering.The party took place at an apartment on Chapel Street near Manchester city centre at the end of January last year, the woman told Chester Crown Court.
The court heard the police arrived and were banging on the door as the party was held during a coronavirus lockdown. Earlier, the witness said she was 18 and living and working in Sheffield when she began to socialise with footballers and was then sexually assaulted by Mr Matturie, in 2016.Later she began to socialise in Manchester from 2020 onwards and went to numerous parties, some attended by footballers, the "majority" of which took place during lockdown, she said.
She was sitting on a sofa and Mr Sterling, who now plays for Chelsea, was passing by and tripped over her foot.
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