The lawyer representing troubled Manchester City and France defender Benjamin Mendy has declared that the talented footballer is not a ‘s£xual predator’ as alleged by his accusers.
The defense counsel Eleanor Laws told a court sitting in London that the ‘moral judgements’ about his lifestyle and wanting lots of s3x with many different women should not be used against him.
She told the jury that they had heard a lot from the prosecution about Mendy’s views on women, how he treated them, his personality and ‘big ego’, and ‘what Mendy wants, Mendy gets’ but there was no evidence that the football star is like that.
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Laws said: ‘But what you haven’t heard is any other evidence that he is controlling, violent and what Mr Mendy wants, Mr Mendy gets and he doesn’t care about consent.
‘’Doesn’t care about feelings has been turned into doesn’t care about consent, which are two very different things.’
She also cautioned the jury about making assumptions about someone’s lifestyle, or attitude towards s3x or women that may be ‘alien’ to most people and making a further assumption that made them a ‘s3xual predator’.
The 28-year-old is accused of carrying out s3x attacks on two women at his £4m mansion.
