Benjamin Mendy - City lose case and Mendy awarded £11m in back pay (p168)

[stonerblue]

Going forward but the first injury against Palace was down to getting himself in a pickle defensively and trying to block the winger with his leg, it was too early to judge.

Good luck to the lad going forward, he will need it. I hope city at least paid his severance pay for this month.

Yep, off balance and out of shape.

 

[meltonblue]

Mendy is a free man that's all that matters now, he will feel pain for how the club just turned its back on him,
for City to rip up his contract looks like an easy way out, we should have backed him until proved otherwise

Mendy walks away a free man but his name is Mud, an innocent man will want justice

We didn’t terminate or rip up his contract, we’ve released him as his contract has now come to an end. We didn’t pay him when he was suspended, but that would have been in his contract too.

 

[Blue Mist]

There is £5 on the kitchen table when you leave the house. When you come back it's gone. No one has seen anything and there is no cctv in the room. The doors are still locked and no windows broken. Are we saying a crime has been committed but there is no evidence ?

If you answer yes, you are wrong.

 

[Any1aBlue]

I feel for men put in this situation he has done everything he is required to do in order to prove his innocence but even the verdict of two juries isn't enough to clear his name this will follow him around for the rest of his life. Why the girls accused him has no bearing on his case for me, they did and a court of law believed that he didn't do what he was accused of.

A similar situation happened to a friend of my sons he was 22 years old and in a volatile relationship when he ended it the ex partner accused him of rape his life was destroyed he became a recluse and suffered depression not long before the court date the partner withdrew the charges saying she was confused and that they had both been drinking and she wasn't sure if it had happened she still received sympathy none was extended to the boy though. People clung onto there's no smoke without fire reasoning and it led to him having to leave the place he had lived his whole life because he couldn't cope anymore.

I think everyone accepts that rape is extremely difficult to prove and some women suffer because of this but in Mendy's case seven women gave evidence and the jury didn't believe one of them over him. I think we need to take more seriously that just because a man is accused it doesn't make him guilty and the effect it can have on men even when found not guilty.

Well said. It also does women no favours who are actually victims of this terrible crime.

 

[OntarioBlue]

Mendy is a free man that's all that matters now, he will feel pain for how the club just turned its back on him,
for City to rip up his contract looks like an easy way out, we should have backed him until proved otherwise

Mendy walks away a free man but his name is Mud, an innocent man will want justice

You make a couple of interesting comments.

You say that the Club turned its back on him. He was suspended following crIminal charges being laid against him, which is standard procedure. In what way did the Club turn its back and what would you have expected them to do in the circumstances ?

You also say the Club ripped up his contract. Surely the truth is his contract expired and the Club chose not to offer him a new one.

 

[meeesh]

There is £5 on the kitchen table when you leave the house. When you come back it's gone. No one has seen anything and there is no cctv in the room. The doors are still locked and no windows broken. Are we saying a crime has been committed but there is no evidence ?

If you answer yes, you are wrong.

Dog could of eaten it

 

[stonerblue]

That's not how it works. We can't know how either jury came to their decisions, but in order to find him not guilty (or on two counts during the first trial, not agree on any verdict at all) they only had to find reasonable doubt.

It is absolutely possible to believe an accusers account to be credible and still find reasonable doubt. Jurors do it all the time.

Er, that is exactly how it works.

 

[roy.or.r]

It's really weird that this one crime seems to make so many people online abandon common sense.

Talk about any other crime that goes to court, and no one would ever argue that a verdict is the same as what actually happened. Everyone knows that sometimes the bad guys walk free, and sometimes the good guys get convicted, and that's the inherent flaw of the justice system but it's the best idea we've come up with. We can understand that the truth and a court verdict are not always the same thing.


But as soon as it comes to rape, a not guilty verdict - no matter the rest of the context of the wider case - results in people proclaiming ther person totally innocent, their accusers branded golddiggers and demands for prison time for false accusers.

And not only that, but there's this weird impression that a verdict clears someone of all wrongdoing, when in any other crime, we can usually discuss rationally how someone might have acted in an awful way, been a scumbag, but not quite satisfied the "beyond a reasonable doubt" threshold.

People who are saying he is completely innocent because the court found him not guilty are probably the same people who think O.J.Simpson is guilty inspite of the court saying otherwise.

It is a very complex issue and rape cases are incredibly difficult to prove. I don’t know if he did it or not. Maybe he is completely innocent and all 7 women colluded to send him to prison. But there is also a chance that he did it and just got away with it. Rape convictions are very low in almost every country. Doesn’t mean people who are found not guilty are always innocent.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Dog could of eaten it

Better dust for paw prints.

 

[Any1aBlue]

Does anyone know if he can Sue over the defamation of character and loss of career? Probably not worth it given the girls financial status.