adminLONDON. – Manchester City star Benjamin Mendy has been charged with another count of rape – bringing the total to eight.
The French international, 27, will appear in front of a Jury accused of raping seven different women.
He now faces 10 allegations against seven women, including the eight counts of rape against five separate women.
Mendy has also been charged with one count of attempted rape against a sixth complainant and one charge of sexual assault against a seventh.
The £52million defender is said to have committed all of the alleged crimes at his £5million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire.
He is accused of attacking the women between October 2018 and August last year.
Mendy was charged with the new offence in April but an order banning publication has now been lifted at a pre-trial hearing at Chester Crown Court.
He pleaded not guilty at a hearing last month to seven rapes and the two other sex offences but has not yet entered a plea to the latest charge.
The hearing before trial judge Steven Everett, the Recorder of Chester, dealt with a number of preliminary administrative issues ahead of the trial, which is due to start on July 25.
Mendy and his co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 40, of Eccles, Gtr Manchester, are on bail.
Matturie is charged with eight rapes against six complainants and four counts of sexual assault.
Mendy joined Man City from Monaco in 2017 and was suspended by the club after he was charged by police on August 26 last year. – The Sun.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter