The alleged sufferer advised Chester Crown Courtroom that the 28-year-old participant was “actually attempting to seize” her between her legs as he handed her in the course of the gathering at his house – The Spinney in Mottram St Andrew – within the early hours of January 2 2021.
The lady mentioned that, moments after the alleged assault, the Manchester Metropolis left-back and former French worldwide made a sexual gesture in direction of her, the jury was advised.
She additionally alleged that he advised her she seemed higher when she smiled earlier than she challenged him, prompting him to apologise, the courtroom heard.
In an interview with police, performed to the jury on Tuesday, the girl mentioned: “He’s kind of simply grabbed my vagina and I simply instantly stopped and thought ‘What has simply occurred?’
She later added: “I used to be simply shocked. I feel I used to be simply bowled over by it as a result of I used to be simply shocked after which realising what had simply occurred.”
The courtroom additionally heard that she instantly went to a toilet to smoke together with her pal however discovered the door was locked.
She mentioned her pal referred to as for somebody to unlock the door, and Mendy got here to open it.
The lady mentioned: “I went into the toilet and we had been going through one another … and he’s kind of gestured to giving me oral intercourse.
“I simply kind of circled after which my pal got here in and I advised her what occurred and she or he was simply shocked, as we each had been, and I don’t perceive the place that got here from as a result of there was minimal dialog.”
She later defined: “He gestured as if he was licking us, put his tongue out as if he was licking me.
“I used to be simply confused.”
The courtroom heard that she and her pal thought-about leaving the social gathering however selected to remain as a result of they had been “intoxicated”.
Later, when the girl went to the swimming pool on the home with different social gathering company, she mentioned she “tried to maintain her distance” from Mendy, however claimed he approached he once more.
She mentioned: “He got here proper up near my face and mentioned ‘You look higher if you smile’”.
The lady advised a police interviewer that the footballer requested why she was offended, to which she mentioned she responded “due to the way you touched me” or “due to what you probably did”.
The lady claimed he started apologising earlier than attempting to “spud” – that means bump his fist on hers – as a approach of smoothing issues over.
Mendy denies one depend of sexual assault in relation to the incident.
He additionally denies eight counts of rape and one depend of tried rape in opposition to six different younger ladies.
Co-accused Louis Saha Matturie, 41, the footballer’s pal and fixer, allegedly had the job of discovering younger ladies for intercourse.
Each males say that if any intercourse did happen it was consensual.
The courtroom has beforehand heard that one lady, who was 20 on the time of the alleged offences, claims she was raped 3 times by Mendy in October 2020.
Prosecutors allege Mendy is a “predator” who “turned the pursuit of girls for intercourse right into a sport”.
The trial continues.
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