A woman who accused Conor McGregor of violently r@ping her in a Dublin hotel in 2018 has won her claim against him for damages in a High Court civil case.
Mr McGregor, 36, faced an accusation that he ‘brutally r@ped and battered’ Nikita Hand, 35, at a hotel in south Dublin in December 2018.
After deliberating for six hours and 10 minutes on Friday, November 22, the jury of eight women and four men returned and found him liable of assaulting Ms Hand. They also awarded Ms Hand nearly 250,000 euros.
Mr McGregor previously told the court he had consensual s3x with Ms Hand, who is also known as Nikita Ni Laimhin, at the Beacon Hotel. He also denied causing bruising to the plaintiff.
Ms Hand, however, has lost her lawsuit against Conor McGregor’s friend, James Lawrence, who she also accused of assaulting her in a Dublin hotel in 2018.
The plaintiff Nikita Hand alleged that McGregor s3xually ass@ulted her on Dec. 9, 2018, and that another man, James Lawrence, did the same, Ireland’s high court heard during two weeks of evidence.
Hand said that she and a friend made contact with McGregor, who she knew, after a work Christmas party. She said they were driven by McGregor to a party in a penthouse room of a south Dublin hotel where drugs and alcohol were consumed.
She said McGregor took her to a bedroom in the penthouse and s3xually assaulted her.
Hand’s lawyer, John Gordon, said Hand was on antidepressants, and ‘full of drugs’ at the time of the alleged ass@ult.
While in the jury room today, the jury were given an issue paper to record their decisions. It asked two questions for them to provide a verdict on.
The first states: ‘did Mr McGregor assault Ms Hand?’
The second is ‘did Mr Lawrence assault Ms Hand?’.
They had to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’. An answer of ‘yes’ to either moves the jury to decide what damages to award Ms Hand.
McGregor testified that he never forced her to do anything and that the woman had fabricated her allegations after the two had consensual s3x.
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