Conor McGregor extracurricular High Court successful Dublin, Ireland Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (PHOTO: PA via AP)
A pistillate accusing Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her successful a Dublin edifice successful 2018 testified successful an Irish tribunal connected Tuesday astatine the commencement of a civilian lawsuit seeking fiscal damages against the mixed martial arts star.
McGregor was astatine the High Court successful Dublin for the opening of a lawsuit that is expected to past astir 2 weeks.
The alleged incidental took spot connected December 9, 2018 and the civilian enactment was filed successful 2021. McGregor and different man, James Lawrence, are the defendants.
A spokesperson for McGregor has antecedently denied the allegations, saying the Irish constabulary had investigated and declined to bring transgression charges.
The accuser’s version
In her testimony, the pistillate said she told McGregor she didn’t consciousness comfy aft being near unsocial with him successful a chamber successful the penthouse suite of a Dublin hotel, Britain’s PA quality bureau reported.
“I tried to speech him around, that I didn’t privation to person enactment and wasn’t determination for thing similar that,” the pistillate said astir McGregor successful the courtroom. “He conscionable wasn’t taking nary for an answer.” John Gordon, the lawyer for the woman, said she and McGregor were known to each different arsenic they were successful the aforesaid property group, from the aforesaid area, had communal friends and had been successful interaction astatine assorted times done societal media.
Daniel Keane, who works arsenic a gynaecologist arsenic good arsenic a forensic examiner successful intersexual battle cases, besides testified connected the archetypal time of the case. Keane said the pistillate was “shaking and crying” aft being brought successful by ambulance the time aft the alleged battle to the infirmary wherever helium was working. He elaborate bruising crossed the woman’s assemblage and said the grade of it was “quite unusual.” PA reported that lawyers for McGregor volition reason that the enactment betwixt him and the pistillate was consensual. It wasn’t instantly wide erstwhile they volition contiguous their arguments.