Conor McGregor accused in Ireland court of ‘vicious and violent’ rape

MMA combatant and histrion Conor McGregor was accused of committing a “vicious and violent” intersexual assault, arsenic grounds was presented Tuesday connected the opening time of a civilian lawsuit successful Irish High Court.

Nikita Hand’s ineligible squad told the tribunal McGregor pinned her down and raped her during a December 2018 gathering astatine the Beacon Hotel successful Dublin.

According to Hand, a radical of communal friends were hanging retired successful the hotel’s penthouse suite erstwhile she recovered herself unsocial successful a chamber with McGregor, who started “coming on” to her. After she seemingly rejected his advances, she struggled with McGregor, but helium overpowered her, allegedly putting her successful an limb fastener and pressing connected her cervix until she couldn’t breathe, reported the Irish Times.

“Mr. McGregor volition archer you that this was a consensual encounter, that they were conscionable having amusive and a spot of unsmooth sex,” Hand’s lawyer, John Gordon, said successful tribunal Tuesday. “What helium is saying is that she gave him a licence to transportation retired what has to person been a brutal battle connected her body.”

Dr. Daniel Kane, a gynecologist who examined Hand astatine Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital a time aft the alleged rape, told the tribunal Hand was successful immense symptom and crying during an exam successful the facility’s intersexual battle unit.

Dr. Kane said Hand had been connected her play astatine the clip and that forceps were needed to region a tampon from the victim, according to the Irish Times. It was the archetypal clip helium had seen specified a happening successful much than 340 intersexual battle examinations, helium told the court.

McGregor has denied Hand’s allegations, with his lawyers calling the suit an extortion effort by a “gold digger” and “a fraud.”

The lawsuit volition resume successful tribunal connected Wednesday and is expected to past astir 2 weeks, according to The Guardian.