Manchester City's Benjamin Mendy goes on trial and faces 19 years in prison 

Press reports revealed that the French left-back, Benjamin Mendy, the Manchester City team, will start his trial today, Wednesday, after he was accused by 7 women of committing 8 crimes of rape. Mendy, 28, is due at Chester Crown Court in northwest England to face eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault, and one count of attempted rape, relating to seven young women. L'Equipe, the French newspaper reported that Mendy's trial will last 15 days, and that the charges facing the Manchester City defender, her sentence range from 4 to 19 years in prison.
He pleaded not guilty in May, to nine of the 10 charges, but was then hit with the further rape count which has not yet been put to him in court. All the alleged offenses are said to have taken place at Mendy’s home address in Prestbury near Macclesfield, also in northwest England, between October 2018 and August last year.
Benjamin Mendy joined Manchester City in the summer of 2017 from Monaco for 49.2 million pounds, and he last played last August against Tottenham.