Conor McGregor's rape accuser flees home after masked men break in and stab boyfriend

The pistillate who said Conor McGregor raped her and has won £200k successful a civilian assertion for damages, was forced to determination location aft a break-in by a radical of men successful balaclavas, believed to beryllium supporters of the UFC fighter, who stabbed her fellow portion their babe slept adjacent door.

Nikita Hand, who accused the sportsman, won her assertion against him astatine the High Court successful Dublin connected Friday. Former UFC champion McGregor had faced an accusation the helium “brutally raped and batter” Hand astatine a edifice successful southbound Dublin successful December 2018. McGregor denied successful tribunal that helium raped her.

A assemblage deliberated for conscionable implicit six hours earlier returning their verdicts that McGregor, 36, had assaulted Ms Hand. Hand, besides known arsenic Nikita Ni Laimhin, mislaid her lawsuit against different man, James Lawrence, whom she accused of assaulting her by allegedly having enactment without her consent astatine the aforesaid hotel.

McGregor, accompanied by his family, including his spouse Dee Devlin, parents, sister and brother-in-law, shook his caput aft the assemblage work retired that Hand had won her lawsuit against him.

At the outset of the trial, the horrific communicative of the break-in emerged, successful the discourse of a assertion she wanted to make, for the outgo of moving distant from Drimnagh successful Dublin. With nary assemblage present, her counsel, John Gordon, told Judge Alexander Owens that the incidental had happened connected June 14 this year.

“The plaintiff's location was invaded by a radical of men wearing balaclavas,” Gordon said. “They broke into the plaintiff's bedroom, and were driven retired by the plaintiff's partner, who suffered a stab coiled successful the process. Her girl was successful the adjacent room, sleeping.”

He continued: “We are not laying that astatine the feet of the defendants, oregon saying they person thing to bash with that. “We bash marque the assertion that it was not an untargeted attack, [it] arose from supporters of the archetypal named suspect [Mr McGregor]. It is related to the assertion that she had to determination retired of the Drimnagh area."

Judge Owens asked: “You are not making the assertion oregon going to tender grounds that Mr McGregor had thing to bash with it?”

Mr Gordon replied: “No, judge, it is an point of peculiar damage. It relates to her authorities of anxiousness and her assertion that she had to determination from the Drimnagh area, arsenic she present has done.”

The tribunal heard she had sought relocation costs of €750k.

In response, McGregor’s barrister, Remy Farrell said it appeared arsenic though Ms Hand was introducing a assertion “which is thing to bash with us.”

“It is bonzer that determination would beryllium an effort to smuggle thing similar that into the case…to summation the peculiar damages,' helium said, and complained that it would beryllium “an invitation to the assemblage to speculate.”

Judge Owens ruled: 'I see this to beryllium wholly and utterly irrelevant and shouldn't beryllium referred to.”

The location break-in was confirmed astatine the clip by the Garda property office, but nary nexus to McGregor was made. A Garda spokeswoman said: “Gardaí received study of an incidental of aggravated burglary that occurred astatine a premises successful Drimnagh, Dublin 12 astatine astir 2.20am this morning, Friday, June 14. One antheral successful his 30s has been conveyed to St James's Hospital for attraction of non-life-threatening injuries sustained arsenic a effect of this incident.”

McGregor made nary remark arsenic helium near tribunal but aboriginal successful a station connected X said helium intends to appeal.

“I volition beryllium appealing today’s decision,” helium said. He added: “I americium with my household now, focused connected my future. Thank you to each my enactment worldwide.”

On Friday, Ms Hand cried and was hugged by her spouse arsenic the verdict was delivered. Speaking extracurricular afterwards, she said that she hopes her communicative encourages victims of intersexual battle to support connected warring for justice.

"To each the victims of intersexual assault, I anticipation my communicative is simply a reminder you person a dependable and to support connected warring for justice,” she said. “I cognize this has impacted my life, my daughter's, my household and friends' tremendously and is thing I volition ne'er hide for the remainder of my life. But present that justness has been served I tin present effort and determination connected and look guardant to the aboriginal with my family, friends and daughter."

McGregor, who antecedently told the tribunal helium had consensual enactment with Ms Hand, vowed to entreaty the decision.

"I volition beryllium appealing today's decision,” helium announced connected societal media. “The judge's acquisition and the humble grant fixed was for assault, not for aggravated oregon exemplary damages. I americium disappointed that the assemblage did not perceive each the grounds that the DPP reviewed. I americium with my household now, focused connected my future.”

The case, which opened connected November 5, had antecedently heard that connected the time of the attack, Ms Hand and her enactment workfellow Danielle Kealy went to the penthouse suite with McGregor and Mr Lawrence aft their enactment Christmas party. They had fixed grounds of however they had been partying each nighttime from December 8 and into the greeting of December 9, and had been heavy drinking and taking cocaine.

Ms Hand, a mother-of-one, told the tribunal however McGregor had pinned her to the furniture successful the edifice chamber earlier assaulting her. During her grounds to the court, Ms Hand said she thought she would ne'er spot her young girl again erstwhile the MMA prima was “choking” her. The tribunal heard that arsenic she was being attacked, she “froze and couldn’t determination oregon breathe”.

She said she had held up some hands and had tried to get distant from him, but said the much she struggled, the much helium appeared to similar it. “The lone happening I could determination was my head. I spot him but I can’t retrieve where. He didn’t similar it, truthful helium flipped maine astir and enactment his limb astir my cervix and choked me,” she said.

Ms Hand, a mother-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 connected her bosom and tenderness connected her cervix aft she said she was placed successful a “chokehold” by McGregor.

McGregor denied helium caused the bruising crossed her body, saying they could person been caused erstwhile she “swan dived” into the bath successful the edifice room.