Benjamin Mendy: Jurors told to end Manchester City defender’s ‘absolute hell’ and acquit him of rape

Jurors in the trial of Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy have been told to end his “absolute hell” and acquit him of rape.

Eleanor Laws KC, defending the 28-year-old Premier League player, said his life in football “was over”, but that none of the claims of sexual abuse by six women were reliable.

Ms Laws, in her closing speech to the jury following three months of evidence at Chester Crown Court, said…