Grealish fingered in rape case

MANCHESTER – Jack Grealish demanded vodka and had sex with a woman at a party held at Man City team-mate Benjamin Mendy’s luxury home, where she says she was later raped by another man, a court heard today.

Grealish is said to have got together with the woman, aged 23, who subsequently in that night was sexually violated by Mendy’s co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, it is alleged.

They had all met at China White in Manchester and got a coach back to the mansion, Chester Crown Court was told, where Grealish ‘demanded vodka’.

Mendy, 28 and Matturie, 41, deny multiple rape and sexual offences against a number of young women.

Grealish was named during a police interview given by a woman and played to the jury.

The woman, aged 17 at the time, alleges she was raped twice by Mendy, the same evening of the party at his house in Prestbury, Cheshire last August.

She said she was told by a different woman, allegedly raped by Matturie, that she had also had sex with Grealish.

Raped

The teenage woman added Mendy raped her twice at his home during the gathering, where Mendy’s friends and Grealish’s friends, from Birmingham, were also present.

She told police Matturie asked her to the nightclub in Manchester in the early hours of last August 23.

She arrived at around 3:30am and was outside the club shortly before Mendy and Matturie left.

She said: They were with Jack Grealish. There were a few girls around him but they were taking pictures and video with his friends.

Matturie then allegedly raped the 23-year-old in the car they used to go to a shop at a local petrol station before returning to the house. On Tuesday the case heard the teenager had told police she woke up to discover Mendy’s friend and ‘fixer’ Matturie raping her.

The young woman, at the time aged 17, said she had gone to Matturie’s flat near Manchester city centre with a friend in the early hours of April 8, last year.

Mendy denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault against six young women.

Matturie of Eccles, Salford, denies six counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to seven young women.

Both men say if any sex did take place with women or girls it was consensual.

The trial continues.