Conor McGregor ordered to pay £200,000 to woman after court finds he raped her

Conor McGregor has been ordered to wage £200,000 successful damages to a pistillate who successfully sued him claiming helium raped her successful a edifice penthouse.

The UFC star, 36, was recovered to person assaulted Nikita Hand, 35, who launched a civilian lawsuit aft the manager of nationalist prosecutions successful Ireland decided not to complaint him criminally.

Ms Hand, who has nary automatic close to anonymity, told the High Court successful Dublin McGregor pinned her to a furniture and raped her successful a edifice chamber successful the metropolis successful December 2018.

A paramedic told the assemblage she had not seen ‘someone truthful bruised’ successful a agelong clip erstwhile she examined Ms Hand the time aft the alleged enactment attack.

The mum-of-one was near with extended bruises and abrasions implicit her body, including purple and bluish bruising on her hands and wrists, a bloodied scratch to her bosom and tenderness to her cervix aft she was placed successful a ‘choke-hold’ by McGregor, the tribunal was told.

During her evidence, Ms Hand told jurors: ‘I conscionable kept reasoning I would dice and not spot my girl again.

‘He fto maine spell and I retrieve saying I was sorry, arsenic I felt that I did thing incorrect and I wanted to reassure him that I wouldn’t archer anyone truthful helium wouldn’t wounded maine again.

‘Then helium said that’s however helium felt erstwhile helium was successful the Octagon and had to pat retired 3 times. I thought it was specified a weird happening to say.

‘I promised I wouldn’t archer anybody anything.

‘Then I conscionable fto him bash immoderate helium needed to bash truthful I could survive. My caput was wholly gone and I wasn’t myself anymore.’

McGregor, nicknamed ‘Notorious’, insisted from the witnesser container helium had consensual enactment with Ms Hand successful a penthouse successful the Beacon Hotel and said ‘she ne'er said nary oregon stopped’.

He was asked astir grounds Ms Hand gave successful which she claimed helium enactment her successful a caput fastener and said ‘now you cognize however I felt successful the octagon’, aft helium was beaten successful a 2018 match.

‘Your lawsuit is afloat of lies. Everything is simply a lie,’ Mr McGregor said.

‘How anyone could judge that me, arsenic a prideful person, would item my shortcomings. It is simply a full-blown prevarication among galore lies.’

McGregor described enactment betwixt him and Ms Hand arsenic ‘vigorous, athletic, carnal and prolonged’, adding that it was ‘not rough’.

He denied helium caused the bruises connected her body, saying they whitethorn person been caused erstwhile she did a ‘swan dive’ into a bath portion they were partying successful the edifice suite.

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