Footballer Benjamin Mendy Faces Retrial For Alleged Sex Offences

File image of Benjamin Mendy. © AFP French footballer Benjamin Mendy will go back to a UK courtroom Monday for the start of his retrial for 2 supposed sexual offenses, 5 months after a jury cleared him of several other counts. Manchester City gamer Mendy, 28, will be back in the dock at Chester Crown Court in northwest England to deal with one count of rape and among tried rape. Jurors in his last trial, which ended in January, stopped working to reach decisions on the 2 charges including 2 various females. The panel of 7 guys and 4 females had actually cleared the protector of 6 other counts of rape and among sexual attack versus 4 ladies following a six-month trial. The judge in January had actually instantly set a brand-new trial date of Monday for the 2 depend on which the jury did not return a decision. Mendy, whose agreement with Manchester City ends at the end of this month and is supposedly not set to be restored, has actually rejected all the charges submitted versus him. As the innocent decisions read out in court in January, Mendy covered his confront with both hands, carefully rocking backward and forward. Jenny Wiltshire, among his attorneys, stated at the time that the footballer was “happy” that he had actually been acquitted of the majority of the charges he dealt with. She included at the time that he looked forwa
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