Manchester Metropolis footballer Benjamin Mendy has appeared in court docket charged with two extra counts of rape.
Mendy, 27, now faces a complete of six allegations of rape and one among sexual assault after initially being charged with 5 offences in August.
The French worldwide has been in custody since August after numerous bail functions had been refused by judges.
The footballer appeared by video-link at Manchester Magistrates’ Courtroom on Wednesday afternoon charged with two additional counts of rape.
He appeared alongside co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie, 40, who has additionally been charged with two further counts of rape and one among sexual assault.

Benjamin Mendy is pictured on August 12 out along with his teammates at The Ivy in Manchester. He’s now in custody and accused of six rapes – two extra prices had been introduced yesterday


Mendy’s co-accused, Louis Saha Matturie, 40, of Eccles, Larger Manchester, (left at court docket in September, proper beforehand) has at the moment been charged with two further counts of rape and one depend of sexual assault. This implies he’s charged with six counts of rape and a sexual assault.
The case was despatched to Chester Crown Courtroom, the place will probably be heard on Thursday morning.
A court docket heard beforehand that the alleged assaults are mentioned to have occurred at his dwelling deal with in Prestbury.
Mendy was suspended by Manchester Metropolis after being charged by police, pending an investigation.
Matturie can be in custody. Each males are scheduled to go on trial on January 24, 2022.

The defendant is being held on remand at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool (file image)
Mendy earns £90,000 per week and lives in a £5million mansion in Prestbury, an upmarket village close to Manchester standard with fellow gamers.
He was a part of France’s World Cup successful squad in 2018, however didn’t play within the closing. He has made 75 appearances for Man Metropolis since signing from Monaco in 2017.
Mendy performed in Man Metropolis’s first two video games this season towards Leicester Metropolis and Tottenham Hotspur however was on the bench for his or her third recreation towards Norwich Metropolis.
The next recreation was towards Arsenal, by which era he had been charged.