talked about ‘being in a situation where you do
But she also talked about ‘being in a situation where you don’t want to do something, feel pressured so you just go along with something’, the friend told the jury. She said that the morning after find , the complainant said Mendy had promised not to touch her if she stripped while he looked at her, but then ‘forced’ her down on a bed and raped her. Earlier the court heard both young women had been among a group of four friends who went back to Mendy’s home after drinks at a nearby bar on October 11, 2020. The girls had been told n house ot to use their phones at Mendy’s home due to his concerns about being seen breaking Covid rules. The 20-year-old woman hid hers business in her bra and had been scrolling through her phone near a swimming pool when he came over and ‘snatched’ the phone from her to check if she had been taking pictures and posting to social media, the court has been told. She said she asked for it back but the footballer led her to an upstairs