Man Metropolis’s Mendy ‘sad’ after being taken to jail over rape costs – as a result of he ‘thought he’d be on VIP wing for celebrities’

Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy was reportedly shocked to find that he wouldn’t be returning to his mansion or housed on a VIP wing in jail following his rape costs.

Manchester Metropolis defender Mendy is claimed to have been informed that he could be taken to the VP wing of a troublesome jail in Liverpool – denoting ‘weak prisoners’ who should be remoted from the primary jail inhabitants, equivalent to intercourse offenders – after showing in courtroom on 4 counts of rape and one in every of sexual assault on Friday.

The 27-year-old didn’t understand that he had been denied bail to return to his $ 6.9 million house and misunderstood officers as saying that he could be saved in a VIP wing, in response to The Solar.

“When Mendy arrived, workers defined he was going to be saved on the VP wing for his personal security,” the outlet has quoted a supply as saying.

Benjamin Mendy case: the defendant faces six costs. He’s charged with three counts of rape on a date in October 2020; he’s charged with a sexual assault on a feminine in January of this yr; he’s additionally charged with raping a girl on a date this week

— John Scheerhout (@johnscheerhout) August 27, 2021

In keeping with The Solar Manchester Metropolis star Benjamin Mendy had a meltdown when informed he was not going to a VIP wing of Liverpool's Altcourse jail however to an unusual cell. He faces four rape costs and if convicted can be spending a very long time in an "unusual" cell. My coronary heart bleeds.

— Kelvin MacKenzie (@kelvmackenzie) September 1, 2021

“However maybe as a result of he’s French and his English isn’t nice, he misunderstood what they’d stated and thought he was being taken to a VIP wing for celebrities. He wasn’t blissful and it was a really sobering expertise for him.”

Mendy can be locked up on the 1,324-capacity jail till the previous France worldwide seems earlier than judges once more at close by Chester Crown Courtroom on September 10.

The World Cup winner allegedly attacked three ladies, together with one below the age of 18, at his house within the village of Prestbury.

His location, HMP Altcourse, is a males’s jail opened in 1997 as the primary privately-financed jail within the UK.

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Additionally housing younger offenders, it’s set within the Fazakerley space of Merseyside and takes offenders from a large native space.

The power is a stark distinction to Prestbury, which is listed on an actual property web site as boasting a median property value approaching $ 2 million.

The village was dubbed ‘footballers’ alley’ by one UK newspaper in 2009, with Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney and former Metropolis striker Carlos Tevez stated to have owned plush houses regionally on the time.

One villager informed the outlet that revered former United supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson and ex-England boss Sven Goran Eriksson had loved visiting a neighborhood restaurant.

Mendy, who joined Metropolis from Monaco for round $ 71.5 million in 2017, will reportedly strenously deny the costs leveled in opposition to him.

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