Benjamin Mendy 'embarrassed' about house parties during lockdown

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Giving evidence at his trial this morning, Mendy began by telling jurors he had stopped being paid by the Premier League club in September 2021 - shortly after his arrest and remand into custody.He was then asked by his barrister Eleanor Laws KC why he had broken lockdown rules.Mendy said: "I knew the rules.These things go quickly.

You send one message and you start to get excited about the party. I was not thinking about [the rules]."I was feeling happy when I was doing some partying.

When I’m alone or quiet is when I start to think about some stuff that happened to me and I start to get sad."It was wrong to have done that.

I regret it and to say that in front of everyone I feel embarrassed. It was not the right thing to do."The French International is accused of raping and sexually assaulting a total of six different women on five different occasions at his home in rural Cheshire between October 2018 and August last year.He denies seven counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape.Chester Crown Court previously heard Mendy grabbed a phone from a woman attending one of his parties in October 2020 and looked at naked pictures of her.He told jurors today: “I was like ‘Wow do you have more?’ I said ‘Very sexy, some nice stuff’ then after that I asked her if she had more. “She said ‘Yes I have more’ and then I asked if we can go upstairs to my bedroom to show me more pictures of her.She was happy with that.”The woman claims Mendy raped her vaginally, orally and anally but Mendy denied this - stating the pair only had consensual oral sex.He said: “At no point was she concerned or wanted to leave.”Mendy was then asked about a woman he is accused of grabbing by the crotch during a party at his.