Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy has told a court he enjoyed “having sex with a lot of women”.
The player, who is charged with seven counts of rape, testified in court on Monday that meeting people to engage in sexual activity with was “honestly, so easy.”
But the 28-year-old France international said being in prison while on remand for the charges had made him “learn lots of things about life”.
Mendy, wearing a navy blue suit, white shirt and tie, said he began to receive attention from women when he was 18 and playing for Marseille.
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When asked by Eleanor Laws KC, defending, if he realised why, he said: “At the beginning, no, but after, yes. Because of status.”
When he joined Manchester City in 2017, he said, the attention became “10 times more”. The way they came to me, it’s not because of my look, it’s because of football.”
Asked about his attitude to having sex with women he did not know particularly well, he said: “At the time I was not thinking like how they were feeling or they can be upset because.
“For me, if they wanted to have sex and I wanted to, everything was fine and I would carry on my partying.” He added that he was enjoying “having sex with a lot of women”.
But, he said if a woman said “no” he would “be fine, I’d accept it and I’d stop”. The World Cup winner said he “didn’t worry” about using contraception although he “knew the risks”.
He said sleeping with different women on the same night was “normal” for him.
When asked why he carried on having parties with women he didn’t know after his initial arrest, Mendy said: “I did nothing wrong so I was just like, carry on.”
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Ms Laws said: “Is that something you regret now?” Mendy replied: “Yeah.”
He said: “When I was in prison it made me realise a lot of things.
“The partying I was doing, inside I had some pain.” He told the court he had been injured a number of times while at City.
Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.
The trial, which began in August, will continue on Tuesday.
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