Fans fume on social media at significant news emerging on Benjamin Mendy

Fans have took to fume on social media at the significant news emerging on Man City’s Benjamin Mendy who has been granted bail.

The 27 year old left-back had been remanded in custody since his first court appearance in August, and was accused of seven counts of rape and one of sexual assault against five women aged over 16.

Mendy has now been freed on bail following a hearing at Chester Crown Court, after spending Christmas at top-security prison Strangeways after being moved from Category B jail HMP Altcourse.

Breaking: Benjamin Mendy freed on bail after being charged with multiple counts of rapehttps://t.co/FwAsPwxFBK

— GB News (@GBNEWS) January 7, 2022

Judge Patrick Thompson granted him bail in a private hearing on Friday the 7th of January 2022 with a list of “stringent” conditions.

He must surrender his passport, live at his home address, and make no contact with complainants and will next appear at the same court on January 24th ahead of a provisional trial date in June.

Mendy was last month charged with a seventh rape count, with the fresh offence relating to a new complainant and is alleged to have taken place in July this year.

Mendy had already being facing six rape counts against four women when the new charge was added.

 

One of these was carried out on August the 23rd – just three days before he was charged, it is said.

It is the second rape Mendy allegedly committed while on police bail after his arrest in November.

Mendy is also accused of raping a woman three times at a Cheshire mansion in October last year and allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in early January 2021.

As mentioned, fans fume on social media at significant news emerging on Benjamin Mendy, see what they had to say below…

@iamOllieHall: How on earth does an accused serial rapist get bail? #Mendy

@_kav1: odds on Mendy to start tonight @RequestABet

@HardwickJude: What on earth?! That is so not right.

@hopey550: Cracks appearing in the Mendy case? If he could buy his way out of prison, why didn’t he do it 3 months ago? Interesting to see what happens there…

@olivertudge1: Then we wonder why women are scared to go out alone at night, because this country lets dangers to society like Mendy free to walk the street

@ewan_mckeegan: Benjamin Mendy has 7 counts off rape and has just been freed on bail?. Is that because he’s a professional footballer he can just have freedom.. the country is fucking backwards

@Daren0007: You couldn’t make it up 😡, free to rape again or free to abscond, the justice system in this country makes me sick 😡

@KTsleftboot: Ffs can’t have a danger like that running around

@charlottesleet: Terrifying. Safety of women and girls is always secondary.

@brogersjournal1: How on earth has Benjamin Mendy made bail 🤦🏻‍♂️ Justice system needs a good look at.

@YNWAlfcnews_: Benjamin Mendy released on bail, after being charged with SEVEN counts of rape..I am disgusted, the justice system is a shambles.

@OuijaBoardWitch: the fact that Benjamin Mendy has been granted bail fully shows the cracks in the justice system. someone who has raped and assaulted 5 women should not be allowed to roam free before trial.

Benjamin Mendy’s Lawyers: pic.twitter.com/fhaKxz6PQV

— Smart United Fan (@SmartUnitedFan) January 7, 2022

Grim details were recently revealed on what Benjamin Mendy could expect in his prison at the time of hearing that he faced a total of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault.

The 27 year old footballer was kept in Liverpool’s HMP Altcourse since October, and threw a paddy after he had initially hope he would be placed in a ‘VIP wing’.

The Merseyside prison is reportedly riddled with a ‘tangled web of gangs’ and despite the pandemic and those inside being kept behind bars more than usual no doubt due to guidelines, 338 assaults still took place in the last year.

Benjamin Mendy’s inmates are revealed to have attacked one another with makeshift weapons – including such items as razor blades concealed inside toothbrushes.

The £52million international footballer was arrested at his home in August following allegations of sexual abuse.

He was remanded in custody and hasn’t been allowed to return to his £5million mansion in Cheshire as the multiple rape charges were issued.

Mendy was transported from court to the Category B prison on the 1st of October, and is now expected stay there until his trial next year after three of his bail pleas were rejected.

He had been placed on the VP wing for vulnerable prisoners, though he misunderstood it and thought he was going to a “VIP wing” instead.

One prison guard is often forced to spend “considerable time” tackling the antics from gangs within the prison walls at Altcourse.

From July 2020 to June 2021, it’s claimed that there were 338 assaults within the prison – and in 35 incidents, a weapon was used by inmates.

53 of the attacks resulted in police referrals for prosecution, while one prisoner received a further 10 months added onto their sentence for melting a razor blade into a toothbrush.

This averages out to 29 assaults for each month – which is nearly one attack a day.