Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor must pay nearly €250,000 in damages for sexually assaulting a woman in Dublin in 2018, a jury ruled on Friday.
The jury of eight women and four men reached the verdict after six hours and 10 minutes of deliberation.
Nikita Hand stated that McGregor sexually assaulted her on December 9, 2018, and that another man, James Lawrence, did the same, and the evidentiary proceedings lasted two weeks.
McGregor denied the claims and said he had consensual sex with Hand, and was also accused of inflicting certain injuries on her.
Hand said that same night she told her boyfriend that she was having a good time because she didn’t want to worry. She said McGregor, with the help of a bodyguard, got her down on the bed and then choked her.
Later, she told her boyfriend about the rape, but she didn’t want to tell him who it was because she was convinced that he would kill her if she did something about it.
McGregor refused to answer the question of the assembled journalists and so far has not spoken after the verdict.
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