One of eight rape charges against world football champion Benjamin Mendy, currently on trial in England, has been dropped for lack of sufficient evidence from the prosecution, Judge Stephen Everett announced on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old French defender, suspended for a year by Manchester City, has been on trial since early August in Chester, northern England, and remains charged with seven rapes, one attempted rape and one sexual assault against seven women.
He denies all these accusations.
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