Conor McGregor ordered to pay woman $360K in civil rape case

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Conor McGregor, erstwhile UFC champion and 1 of the biggest names successful mixed martial arts fighting, has been ordered to wage much than 250,000 Euros (approximately C$360,000) to a pistillate who accused him of raping her astatine a edifice successful Dublin successful 2018.

McGregor, whose civilian lawsuit played retired successful Ireland’s precocious court, indispensable manus implicit the funds damages to Nikita Hand, who besides goes by Nikita Ní Laimhín.

Hand previously said McGregor “brutally raped and battered” her connected Dec. 9, 2018. The battle happened aft a nighttime of partying near her heavy bruised and suffering from post-traumatic accent disorder, she said.

McGregor testified that helium ne'er forced the pistillate to bash thing against her volition and said she fabricated the allegations aft the 2 had consensual sex. His lawyer had called Hand a golden digger.

Speaking extracurricular the tribunal aft the two-week trial, Hand thanked her household and a subordinate of the rape situation centre, who sat astatine her side during the people of the trial, reports The Guardian.

Referring to her daughter, she said: “I privation to amusement Freya and each different miss and lad that you tin basal up for yourself if thing happens to you, nary substance who the person, is and justness volition beryllium served.

“To each the victims of intersexual assault, I anticipation my communicative is simply a reminder that nary substance however acrophobic you mightiness be, talk up, you person a voice, and support connected warring for justice.”

McGregor was mobbed by cameras arsenic helium near tribunal but did not comment. He aboriginal said connected the societal level X that helium would entreaty the verdict and the “modest award.”

During the trial, Hand’s lawyer told jurors that the combatant was aggravated astir a combat helium had mislaid successful Las Vegas 2 months earlier and took it retired connected his client.

“He’s not a man, he’s a coward,” lawyer John Gordon said successful his closing speech. “A devious coward and you should dainty him for what helium is.”

Gordon said his lawsuit ne'er pretended to beryllium a saint and was lone looking to person amusive erstwhile she sent McGregor a connection done Instagram aft attending a Christmas party. He said Hand knew McGregor socially and that they had grown up successful the aforesaid area.

She said helium picked her and a person up successful a car and shared cocaine with them, which McGregor admitted successful court, connected the mode to the Beacon Hotel.

Hand said she told McGregor she didn’t privation to person enactment with him and that she was menstruating. She said she told him “no” arsenic helium started kissing her but helium yet pinned her to a furniture and she couldn’t move.

McGregor enactment her successful a chokehold and aboriginal told her, “Now you cognize however I felt successful the octagon wherever I tapped retired 3 times,” referring to a UFC lucifer erstwhile helium had to admit defeat, she said.

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Hand had to instrumentality respective breaks successful affectional grounds implicit 3 days. She said McGregor threatened to termination her during the brushwood and she feared she would ne'er spot her young girl again.

Eventually, helium fto spell of her.

“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,” she testified.

She said she past fto him bash what helium wanted and helium had enactment with her.

A doc and paramedic who treated Hand pursuing the rape testified, confirming aggregate injuries accordant with her claims. The paramedic said she had ne'er seen that strength of bruising before.

Hand besides alleged that different man, James Lawrence, who joined the party, sexually assaulted her. The assemblage recovered that Lawrence did not battle Hand.

McGregor has not fought since a July 2021 TKO nonaccomplishment to Dustin Poirier. It’s been much than 8 years since helium astir precocious held a UFC title, which was stripped from him for nonaccomplishment to defend.

Hand’s lawyer told the tribunal that his lawsuit took the civilian tribunal lawsuit chiefly to beryllium vindicated, aft nationalist prosecutors said a transgression condemnation was improbable owed to insufficient evidence.

On X, McGregor wrote that helium was disappointed jurors didn’t spot each the grounds the prosecutors had reviewed.

— with files from The Associated Press

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