Benjamin Mendy’s lawyer says ‘morally dubious’ actions do not make him a rapist

Although barrister would not want' her daughter to attend the footballer's parties, accusers were making real-life choices'

Benjamin Mendy's barrister said she wouldn't want her daughter to go to a party if the Manchester City footballer was there, but insisted that did not mean he was a rapist or a Jimmy Savile-style groomer.

Eleanor Laws KC told the jury in Mendy's rape trial that the 28-year-old regularly had unprotected sex at parties in his Cheshire mansion with women he didn't know from Adam". But it was not criminal" to have sex with multiple women without a condom, she stressed.