Conor McGregor ‘strangled and raped woman in hotel room’, court hears

A pistillate who has accused Irish mixed martial arts combatant Conor McGregor of raping her thought the 36-year-old was going to termination her, and said helium ‘wasn’t taking nary for an answer’, a tribunal successful Dublin has heard.

Nikita Ni Laimhin, who is besides known arsenic Nikita Hand, is claiming civilian damages against Mr McGregor and different man, alleging she was sexually assaulted successful December 2018.

Ms Ni Laimhin has accused Mr McGregor of pinning her to a furniture and raping her successful a edifice successful Dublin.

The 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 to her bosom and tenderness to her cervix aft she was placed successful a ‘choke-hold’ by Mr McGregor, the tribunal was told.

In her grounds to the High Court successful Dublin, Ms Ni Laimhin said that Mr McGregor kept telling her to ‘relax babe’, arsenic she told him she did not consciousness comfortable.

The tribunal heard connected Tuesday that lawyers for Mr McGregor volition accidental that the enactment betwixt him and Ms Ni Laimhin – who has nary automatic close to anonymity – was consensual.

The fighter, nicknamed ‘Notorious’, was successful tribunal to perceive Justice Alexander Owens archer the assemblage it is alleged Ms Ni Laimhin was sexually assaulted by Mr McGregor and James Lawrence connected December 9.

The justice said that it is alleged that the brace had ‘in effect raped her’.

The tribunal was told Mr McGregor collected Ms Ni Laimhin, a Dublin hairdresser, and her person pursuing a Christmas enactment connected December 8.

John Gordon SC for Ms Ni Laimhin said that the brace were known to each different arsenic they were successful the aforesaid property group, from the aforesaid country and had communal friends and had been successful interaction astatine assorted times done societal media.

At the clip she lived successful the Dublin suburb of Drimnagh with her spouse and seven-year-old daughter.

She and had been retired with friends connected the nighttime of the alleged incident.

Mr Gordon said that Mr McGregor was ‘enormously famous’ and was considered a ‘hero’ astir Drimnagh.

He said that his lawsuit was ‘no angel’ and ‘doesn’t unreal to beryllium an angel’.

On the night, she had been drinking and had taken immoderate cocaine. The tribunal besides heard that she suffered from slump and had been connected anti-depressants.

The tribunal was told that aboriginal connected successful the night, Ms Ni Laimhin and 2 of her friends returned to her salon wherever they continued to enactment and astatine immoderate point, she contacted Mr McGregor.

In her grounds to the court, Ms Ni Laimhin said that Mr McGregor collected her and a person from the salon and understood they were to beryllium taken to different party.

He sat successful the backseat with the 2 women, portion his operator took them astir lodging estates and beeped the horn.

They aboriginal went to the location of Mr Lawrence, who joined them successful the car.

The tribunal was told that Mr McGregor had a container of cocaine, which was shared betwixt the plaintiff and her friend.

The group, which included the complainant, Mr McGregor arsenic good arsenic his information team, past went to a penthouse suite successful the Beacon Hotel successful Dublin.

She told the tribunal that they were each drinking and laughing and that the temper was ‘fine’.

She told the tribunal that soon aft they arrived, Mr McGregor was connected the toilet and told Ms Ni Laimhin to ‘suck connected that’.

‘I retrieve past being successful the chamber and determination was a information defender implicit by the model and different information defender closed the doorway betwixt the 2 rooms. I retrieve thinking, wherefore is determination 3 men successful the country and I’m the lone 1 here,’ she added.

Ms Ni Laimhin was past near unsocial successful the chamber with Mr McGregor erstwhile helium attempted to ‘come connected to me’, and tried to buss her and hitch her face.

‘I knew what helium was looking for. I said I don’t consciousness comfy Conor. I said I cognize Dee (Mr McGregor’s partner) and I cognize her family.

‘I tried to speech him around, that I didn’t privation to person enactment and wasn’t determination for thing similar that.

‘He conscionable wasn’t taking nary for an answer. He pinned maine to the furniture and told maine to unbend babe. I retrieve putting my arms up to support him distant from me.

‘He kept pushing his value down connected apical of me.’

It is alleged aboriginal by defence that she went connected to person enactment with Mr Lawrence, but Mr Gordon said she has nary recollection of specified an lawsuit ever happening.

The tribunal besides heard from Dr Daniel Keane, who works arsenic a gynaecologist arsenic good arsenic a forensic examiner successful intersexual battle cases.

He told the tribunal helium was moving astatine the exigency section astatine the Rotunda Hospital successful Dublin erstwhile Ms Ni Laimhin was brought successful by ambulance connected December 10.

Dr Keane said she was ‘very upset’, and was ‘shaking and crying’.

He told the tribunal however they had to get a broad for her to beryllium connected due to the fact that of the symptom she was in.

In his report, Ms Ni Laimhin had told him that greeting that the alleged attacker had her by the cervix and that helium had stopped her from breathing.

He told the tribunal that she besides claimed she did not combat him anymore and thought helium was going to termination her.

Dr Keane elaborate extended bruising crossed Ms Ni Laimhin’s body, including her face, arms, fingers, forearms, knuckles, legs, little backmost and buttocks.

She besides had a 9cm scratch connected her near breast.

Her besides stated that Ms Ni Laimhin was disquieted astir a tampon she had been wearing connected the nighttime she was allegedly assaulted.

Dr Keane explained however helium had to usage forceps to region the tampon which had been ‘wedged inside’.

He told the tribunal however helium has carried retired hundreds of examinations connected women, and said the grade of bruising connected Ms Ni Laimhin was ‘quite unusual’.

Mr Gordon told the court: ‘In the look of this, Mr McGregor volition archer you that this was a consensual encounter, that they were conscionable having amusive and a spot of unsmooth sex. That’s his answer.

‘What did I accidental astir communal sense? Don’t beryllium fooled into leaving it down successful this (court) room.

‘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.’

The defence claimed successful the grounds booklet that Ms Ni Laimhin had respective opportunities to kick to radical astir however she was treated but did not.

It volition besides assertion that Ms Ni Laimhin is engaged successful an effort astatine extortion, the tribunal heard.

Mr Gordon said that his lawsuit is being called a ‘gold digger and a fraud’, adding: ‘Brave. But wherever is the bravery successful this? Bravery yet sits with my client.

‘Because she pursued her ngo for vindication and compensation to which she is entitled. And for these defendants to breezily and cheekily dispose of her assertion is thing you volition see successful owed course.’

Earlier the assemblage was sworn successful astatine the High Court and told that they are judges of information arsenic to what happened and volition person to gully a decision and it volition beryllium based connected their decision.

The enactment is expected to past astir 2 weeks.

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