{"id":901,"date":"2021-09-02T01:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T01:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=901"},"modified":"2021-09-02T01:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T01:15:35","slug":"manchester-city-defender-benjamin-mendy-still-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy still in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been refused bail by Chester Crown Court and will remain in custody ahead of a potential trial on rape and sexual assault charges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-half photo-right four_col \">\n<div style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news\/273381\/four_col_mend.jpg?1630004537\" alt=\"Benjamin Mendy of Manchester City \" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0PHOTOSPORT<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The 27-year-old was remanded in custody last week after appearing at Chester Magistrates&#8217; Court a day after being reportedly charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy has not yet formally entered a plea, according to reports, but his lawyer said that the player has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Mendy, who has been suspended by his club, are alleged to have taken place between October 2020 and August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The France international signed for City from Monaco in 2017 and has won three Premier League titles during his time in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been refused bail by Chester Crown Court and will remain in custody ahead of a potential trial on rape and sexual assault charges. The 27-year-old was remanded in custody last week after appearing at Chester Magistrates&#8217; Court a day after being reportedly charged with four counts of rape and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}