Benjamin Mendy is a French footballer, formerly a player with the national team. When taken on by Manchester City in 2017, the transfer fee was the highest ever paid for a defence player, anywhere in the world. He hasn’t been paid a salary for over 16 months due to sexual assault allegations. His entry on Wikipedia includes this:
In August 2021, Manchester City suspended Mendy when he was charged with sexual offences; he pleaded not guilty to the charges of eight rapes, one attempted rape and a sexual assault at his trial in August 2022. One rape charge was dropped by the prosecution, and in January 2023, a jury ruled that Mendy was not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. He faces a retrial on a further count of rape and one count of attempted rape.
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Benjamin Mendy’s acquittal on 6 charges of rape has been in the news:
Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy cleared of six rape charges | UK news | The Guardian
but I have not seen any comment on the fact that there is overwhelming evidence that one of the accusations was false and malicious and strong evidence that several other women’s accusations were false and malious from the (Guardian’s!) report:
Several weeks into the trial, the judge ordered the jury to find both Mendy and Matturie not guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman, after a video emerged showing her having “enthusiastic and obviously consensual sex” with Matturie.
From another Guardian report:
Some of the women whom Mendy was ultimately cleared of raping sent messages to friends expressing what Laws described as “unbridled joy and giddiness” about the night they’d just had.
One of Mendy’s accusers, Woman 5, returned to his home 15 times after the alleged attack, the court heard.
The evening after she alleged that Mendy raped her in his cinema room, Woman 4 was seen hugging him at a Manchester nightclub, Chinawhite. The jury was shown CCTV footage of her approaching the footballer and dancing suggestively into him.
… the woman could be seen posing for a photograph, apparently punching the air. The jury was told that the resulting photo was posted by a friend on social media. The caption read: “She shagged a pro footballer.”
Several questions arise from this:
- Will the woman who claimed to have been raped but for which video evidence that proves that she was enthusiastically consenting be prosecuted?
- Will their be an investigation into whether there was a conspiracy between the women to falsely accuse and convict Mendy and Matturie of rape?
- Why did the police either not find this evidence or ignore it to go ahead with prosecutions? The basis for the prosecutions was the men’s word against the women’s but there was strong evidence that the women’s account was false so why did they go ahead with those charges?
- Given the above is it fair or in the public interest to continue prosecution with the remaining undecided charges? Isn’t this an abuse of process? A large number of women come together to make accusations against men the majority of the accusations are not only proved to be false but to be fabricated and yet those that cannot be directly refuted are continued with? Its a shotgun approach and intrinsically unfair, given enough fabrication attempts one might succeed.
I don’t hold out much hope for the false accusers to be brought to account.
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