Hand a ‘marked woman’ for standing up to McGregor, jury told

Conor McGregor is simply a “devious coward” and a liar, the assemblage successful a civilian lawsuit against the Irish mixed martial arts combatant has been told.

Mr McGregor is facing an accusation successful the civilian enactment that helium “brutally raped and battered” Nikita Hand astatine a edifice successful southbound Dublin successful December 2018.

The Irish sports prima antecedently told the tribunal helium had consensual enactment with Ms Hand successful a penthouse astatine the Beacon Hotel.

Ms Hand, who is besides known arsenic Nikita Ni Laimhin, is besides suing different man, James Lawrence, for assault.

The assemblage of 8 women and 4 men heard closing arguments successful the lawsuit astatine the High Court successful Dublin connected Tuesday.

John Gordon SC, representing Ms Hand, said that the assemblage had witnessed stress, anger, vitriol and “serial lying” during the hearing.

He said his lawsuit had been “badly beaten up” connected December by Mr McGregor astatine the Beacon Hotel.

He said Ms Hand ne'er pretended to beryllium an angel and that she was retired to person a bully clip until “things went severely wrong”.

He said Ms Hand, who started crying successful the courtroom, present lives successful fear.

Mr Gordon said she had told Mr McGregor that she did not privation to person enactment with him arsenic she had a tampon in, and that they were successful a person radical with his spouse Dee Devlin.

He said Mr McGregor would not instrumentality nary for an answer.

Mr Gordon said aspects of Mr McGregor’s grounds – including claims of “athletic” sex, that Ms Hand had “swan dived” into a bath, and that she whitethorn person been “knocked about” portion being retired for 3 days – did not reply the questions enactment to him successful court.

He said: “You are being sold a pup by this arrogant man.”

He added: “Mr McGregor – acold from dealing with it – has tally distant from it.”

Mr Gordon told the assemblage “there is nary reply to his appalling behaviour”.

He said determination was a “litany of corroborative evidence” confirming his client’s story, adding that she suffered from PTSD from a convulsive assault.

Mr Gordon said Mr McGregor’s lawsuit was built connected “trying to propulsion arsenic overmuch particulate successful your eyes arsenic possible”.

His comments came aft Remy Farrell, defence barrister for Mr McGregor, said that Ms Hand had appeared “happy, happy, happy” connected CCTV footage disposable to the jurors.

Mr Farrell told the assemblage that portion galore of them had antagonistic views of Mr McGregor, it was their occupation to methodically see the grounds alternatively than relying connected a “hot take” oregon “gut feeling”.

He said: “You whitethorn person an progressive dislike of him, immoderate of you whitethorn adjacent loathe him – determination is nary constituent pretending that the concern mightiness beryllium otherwise.”

Mr Farrell added: “I’m not asking you to invitation him to Sunday brunch.”

He said the assemblage had the payment of being capable to look astatine CCTV footage of Ms Hand from the contiguous aftermath and hours aft the alleged rape.

Mr Farrell said the CCTV showed idiosyncratic “well able” to deflect and lie.

He said it showed Ms Hand doing a “victory dance” aft sending a substance to her fellow wherever she did not accidental she was astatine the hotel.

“Then bang, arsenic soon arsenic she knows she has to spell location and look the euphony – that’s erstwhile the allegations start,” Mr Farrell added.

He said Ms Hand had deleted worldly from her telephone and asked idiosyncratic other to delete texts.

For Ms Hand, Mr Gordon told the jury: “Of course, cameras don’t prevarication – but they don’t ever archer you the full communicative either.”

He said it was wide from the footage that Ms Hand “was not successful bully shape”.

Mr Gordon said his lawsuit had lied to her fellow and deleted worldly from her telephone due to the fact that she was frightened.

Mr Gordon said Ms Hand assisted gardai erstwhile they became involved.

Mr Farrell told the assemblage that Ms Hand had fixed a “simply invented” relationship of the alleged rape successful her archetypal recollection of the incidental to her person Eimer Brennan aft the incident.

He said she told Ms Brennan that determination was nary motion of different pistillate who was present, Danielle Kealey, erstwhile she woke up and that she near immediately.

Mr Farrell said the footage showed that she had not near immediately.

He said she had “sought to airbrush Danielle Kealey retired of events”, adding that Ms Kealey’s grounds did not enactment Ms Hand’s account.

Mr Gordon said “of course” Ms Hand’s recounting was “a spot each implicit the place” due to the fact that she was overwhelmed and suffering from “fragmented memory”.

He said: “The liar present is McGregor, who doesn’t person the courage, who doesn’t person the decency to ain up to what helium did.”

He added: “What helium should person done – if helium was a antheral astatine each – is apologise to my lawsuit for what helium did to her.

“But he’s not a man, he’s a coward. A devious coward and you should dainty him for what helium is.”

Mr Gordon said Mr McGregor enactment Ms Hand successful a stranglehold and said “now you cognize what it was similar successful the octagon wherever I tapped retired 3 times”.

He said Mr McGregor was “in immoderate temper” aft losing a combat successful Las Vegas months earlier and taking it retired connected Ms Hand.

And helium added: “Whatever you deliberation astir her societal habits, immoderate you deliberation astir galore aspects – the 1 happening you cognize is that she has courage. She had the courageousness to spot it through.”

He said the maltreatment of his lawsuit continued passim the tribunal proceeding wherever determination was “arrogant, distasteful and dishonest grounds from the defendant”.

He said Ms Hand nary longer resides successful the country arsenic “she lives successful fear”.

He said vindication from the assemblage would not alteration the information that “she volition unrecorded with this for the remainder of her days”

He added: “It doesn’t alteration the information that she volition ever beryllium a marked pistillate – due to the fact that she stood up to Conor McGregor”.

Mr Gordon told the assemblage that it whitethorn beryllium assumed that Mr Lawrence is “in cahoots” with Mr McGregor, who helium said was paying his ineligible fees with the aforesaid solicitor.

John Fitzgerald SC, for Mr Lawrence, said his lawsuit had an wholly consensual intersexual brushwood with Ms Hand.

Mr Justice Alex Owens’ complaint to the assemblage began pursuing closing arguments.

He told the assemblage that helium believed that the substance was a question of “truth oregon lies”, adding that it was his presumption that “one broadside oregon the different is telling lies”.

His complaint continues connected Wednesday morning.