A jury in a civil court has set up Conor McGregor violationd a woman in a Dublin boilingel in 2018 and has awarded her €248,000 (£206,000) in harms.
The Irish mixed martial arts fighter, 36, made no comment as he quickly left Dublin’s High Court adhereing the decision on Friday evening.
After deliberating for six hours and 10 minutes, the jury returned with their verdicts. The total amount of harms awarded to claimant Nikita Hand was €248,603.
McGregor previously telderly the court he had consensual relations with Ms Hand in a penthoengage at the Beacon Hotel in December 2018.
Ms Hand telderly the court McGregor pinned her to a bed, choked her three times and “bruloftyy violationd and battered” her.
The civil court jury was telderly she was left with extensive injuries, including purple and blue bruising alengthy her hands and wrists, a bloodied scratch to her breast and tenderness to her neck.
But lawyers for the fighter contested the legal case and accengaged her of finisheavored “force”.
They pointed to CCTV footage of Ms Hand arriving at and leaving the boilingel with McGregor and a second man, James Lawrence, whom she also accengaged of relationsual attack.
Both McGregor and Lawrence denied any wrongdoing. While she won her case agetst McGregor, Ms Hand lost her claim agetst Lawrence.
On Monday, McGregor’s legitimate team also telderly jurors it did not matter if they did not enjoy or even loathed the well-understandn fighter, urging them to see at the evidence and not his character.
McGregor and the claimant krecent each other and had occasionassociate been in reach out on social media, the civil trial heard.
Before the attack, Ms Hand had reach outed the fighter, who picked up her and a friend in his car.
McGregor “came on to her”, but she did not want to have relationsual intercourse with him as she was on her period, the trial heard.
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