Messages between Benjamin Mendy and friend about young women revealed

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Mobile phone messages about young women sent between ex-Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy and his "fixer" spoke of women as "bitches", it can be revealed for the first time.The messages, between former Manchester City defender Mendy and his friend, Louis Saha Matturie, included one saying: "We are boss, they are bitches."Mendy was found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, relating to four women, after a six-month trial at Chester Crown Court in February.Jurors could not reach verdicts on one count of rape and one of attempted rape, relating to two women, but he was also found not guilty after a retrial in June.Neither of the juries at his trial or retrial were shown the messages as the judge ruled them inadmissible.The messages could not be reported until Thursday when Mr Matturie was cleared of all charges in his retrial.At Mr Mendy's first trial prosecutors claimed the messages revealed the true picture of the men's "misogynistic" and "hateful" attitude to women.Another message read: "Bro' if no one f***, the girls they go, because they can't sleep here, no space."A third said: "I don't want any friends coming in (the cinema room).

I'm going to f*** the tall one. Get the Spanish girl LOL."The social media and text messages were recovered during the police investigation after Mr Mendy and Mr Matturie's phones were seized by detectives and analysed.During legal argument in the absence of the jury, Timothy Cray KC, prosecuting Mr Mendy in his first trial, wanted the jury to see the messages, applying for them to be included in the evidence.Mr Cray argued the messages showed "entrenched" and "reckless" attitudes to women.They showed, he said, where the line into sexual assault and rape