Former Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy swapped 'misogynistic' messages with his 'friend and fixer' referring to young women who came to his parties as 'b******', it can be revealed today....if you consider this a 'revelation'.
The French World Cup winner exchanged the text messages with Louis Saha Matturie, 42, who has been now cleared of rape and sexual assault charges after a police investigation lasting almost three years. The messages were never produced to juries at three separate trials involving 28-year-old Mr Mendy and Mr Matturie over allegations of sex attacks at parties held in the millionaire footballer's £2.2million Cheshire mansion and at Mr Matturie's flat in Salford.
For good reason? Well…
They were ruled inadmissible after defence lawyers successfully argued that they would be prejudicial.
At the time, Judge Everett said all 'right-thinking' people would disapprove of the messages, which did the defendants 'no credit.' But he stressed that the issue in the trial was not 'whether they had entrenched views about sex' but whether the women had consented to sex. As a result, he ruled that they should not be shown to the jury.
Looks like he was right. So little point in anyone getting their knickers in a twist over them now, surely?
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