Woman accusing Conor McGregor of rape had 'intense' level of bruising, paramedic tells court

Conor McGregor is appeared successful tribunal backmost successful Dublin, with the UFC prima facing a intersexual battle allegation successful a civilian lawsuit successful which an idiosyncratic has accused him of rape

The pistillate accusing Conor McGregor of rape had an 'intense level of bruising', a assemblage heard connected Tuesday, with a paramedic who tended to the idiosyncratic testifying.

Advanced paramedic Eithne Scully has been giving grounds successful the 2nd week of the trial, with civilian enactment taken by Nikita Hand, who has accused McGregor and the Irishman's co-defendant, James Lawrence of rape. Both McGregor and Lawrence person vehemently denied Hand's claims.

Scully told the tribunal that the unfortunate was 'withdrawn, agitated and upset' erstwhile she had archetypal saw her successful December 2018, and noted injuries including a chopped connected her chin and bruising connected her neck, chest, buttocks and each astir her legs.

Scully said of her injuries: "I haven’t seen idiosyncratic truthful bruised, with that strength of bruising".

McGregor's lawyer, Remy Farrell SC, had challenged the woman's relationship of events successful the archetypal week of tribunal proceedings, accusing her of falsifying accusation whilst "spinning a web of lies".

Farrell questioned Hand astir statements she made to her then-partner astir being successful a taxi with a person aft leaving the Beacon Hotel. Hand had confessed that this was mendacious arsenic she had been unsocial successful the taxi, and explained that she made the remark to reassure her ex-partner that she was safe.

Farrell had past suggested that the falsehoods she told her spouse were "part of a web of lies you were weaving".

Hand has alleged that McGregor assaulted her earlier helium allegedly raped her. During cross-examination by McGregor's defence different parademic stated that Hand "said she could hardly retrieve but she was raped."

A witness, a person of the claimant, told the jury: "She said to Conor's friend, 'Do you crook a unsighted oculus for what helium does to women?'. Then she said to the operator she wants to spell home. He asked her, 'Does Conor privation you to leave?'. She ran off. She ended up getting into a taxi. She past went to her sister-in-law, didn't get an reply truthful she went to my house.

"She told maine she did person a tampon in. And that she thinks it's wrong her. She was crying implicit that. She had said, 'What americium I going to do?'. I said you astir apt person to spell rape situation centre and if you bash spell there, it's astir apt champion not to person a shower.

"She had taken disconnected her overgarment erstwhile she archetypal came successful and I saw the bruise connected her arms. I helped her instrumentality disconnected the jumpsuit and noticed bruised close bosom with a scrape connected it. She had a bruise connected her genu I think, bruise connected her knuckle, scrape connected her jaw, reddish people connected her neck."