Man City’s Benjamin Mendy pictured for first time since being let out of prison wearing ankle tag after rape arrest
RAPE-accused football star Benjamin Mendy is pictured for the first time since being let out of prison — at a police station answering bail.
The Manchester City ace, 27, was ordered to wear an electronic tag and has to check in at a local cop shop each day as part of his bail conditions.
The French international defender is charged with seven rapes on four women and a further count of sexual assault.
He was released earlier this month from HMP Strangeways.
Mendy had spent 134 days in jail after breaching bail conditions following his arrest on suspicion of several sex offences.
He has been ordered to spend the next six months under house arrest at his luxury £4.8million mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire, while he waits for his trial.
He is chauffeur driven from his six-bedroom property to present himself at Macclesfield police station.
An onlooker said: “This blacked out people carrier pulled up outside the police station right outside the door and this guy just jumped out.
“He had his hood up and a mask on and walked quickly in.
“He was only in for about a minute and then came out, jumped back into the van and they zoomed off.”
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Mendy was ordered to stay home, surrender his passport and observe “stringent” conditions at his last court appearance by Judge Patrick Thompson.
He will not face trial until at least June, meaning he will miss the rest of the Premier League season.
Judge Thompson warned Mendy that if he ignored any of his bail he would be returned to prison.
Mendy’s co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 40, of Eccles, Gtr Manchester has been charged with six counts of rape and one of sexual assault.
Mendy, was a member of France’s 2018 World Cup winning squad.
He has played for Manchester City since 2017, when he joined from Monaco in a £52million deal.
Since joining the Blues he has won the Premier League three times, two League Cups and the Community Shield, despite making just 50 appearances for the club.
