Benjamin Mendy, a Manchester City defender, has been found not guilty on seven of the nine accusations brought against him.
After a nearly five-month trial, the defender was acquitted of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.
However, following 13 days of deliberation at Chester Crown Court, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on two further accusations against Mendy – one count of rape in October 2020 involving a woman aged 24, and one count of attempted rape in October 2018.
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The Crown Prosecution Service has seven days to decide whether to retry the two offences on which no verdict could be reached.
Mendy held his head in his hands as the verdicts were read out.
Mendy’s co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, has been found not guilty of three charges.
He faces a possible retrial on six charges.
Manchester City suspended Mendy when he was arrested in August 2021 and stopped paying him in September 2021.
His contract expires this summer.
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