A civil jury in Eire dominated that Conor McGregor assaulted a girl in a penthouse after an evening of partying in 2018 throughout a sexual encounter, however McGregor says the claims are false.
The previous UFC champion stated, in a since-deleted put up, that he would enchantment the civil jury’s resolution, however he ranted on X earlier Saturday about his accuser’s “lies.”
The accuser, Nikita Hand, additionally accused triathlete James Lawrence of assault on the identical night time that McGregor allegedly “brutally raped and battered” her.
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Conor McGregor attends the “Highway Home” New York premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Middle on March 19, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (Manoli Figetakis/WireImage)
Regardless of the court docket ordering McGregor to pay over $250,000, it additionally discovered that Lawrence was harmless.
“Justice was served for James Lawrence, sure! Deplorable what they finished. Nikita hand, vicious liar! APPEAL!” McGregor posted on X Saturday morning in reposting a narrative from the Irish Unbiased.
McGregor additionally wrote that Hand had “falsely accused a person of rape and misplaced.”
“Two males falsely accused. One vindicated, the opposite quickly to be! Congrats James Lawrence on absolute exoneration!” McGregor wrote in one other put up. “Twice this heinous accusation was put to you and twice it was proven as FALSE! LIES! It’s completely disgraceful what they put you thru right here. Disgraceful! I sit up for seeing you additional vindicate your self and lambast these accountable in court docket! We all know what occurred that night time! Everybody current is aware of, but it was ignored. Each single assertion of individuals current on the night time was ignored. They usually all disputed Nikita’s LIES!”
Lawrence himself wrote in an Instagram Story put up that Hand is “an absolute shame and a slap within the face to any lady that did ever go threw [sic] this for actual.”
Conor McGregor leaves the court docket, because the court docket breaks for the jury’s resolution within the civil motion case, P Ní Laimhin v McGregor & Anor, in Excessive Court docket 24 at Chancery Place in Dublin. (David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile by way of Getty Photos)
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Hand stated that McGregor had bruised her throughout intercourse, to some extent the place a paramedic testified that he had not seen somebody with that depth of bruising. She additionally claimed that McGregor had put her in a chokehold a number of occasions and later advised her, “Now you understand how I felt within the octagon the place I tapped out 3 times.”
McGregor stated that the 2 had had intercourse that had been athletic and vigorous however not tough. He stated that “she by no means stated, ‘No’ or stopped” and testified that all the pieces she had stated was a lie.
McGregor beforehand was accused of sexually assaulting somebody in a rest room at an NBA Finals recreation in 2022, however he averted fees.
UFC fighter Conor McGregor after the undisputed tremendous light-weight championship battle between Katie Taylor and Chantelle Cameron on the 3Arena in Dublin. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile by way of Getty Photos)
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McGregor, who hasn’t fought since 2021, was set to return to the ring at UFC 303, however his harm stored him away from the Octagon.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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