Conor McGregor’s attraction has reportedly been denied in a civil sexual assault case.
In response to the BBC, and a number of different information retailers, three senior judges on the Court docket of Enchantment in Dublin dismissed the attraction “on all grounds.” The previous two-division UFC champ was discovered liable of sexual assault in a civil trial filed towards him this previous November.
McGregor was accused of sexually assaulting Nakita Hand in a Dublin lodge in 2018, and after the jury handed down their verdict, McGregor was ordered to pay Hand £206,000 ($271,742.84).
“This attraction has retraumatized me again and again, being pressured to relive it, what occurred has had a huge effect on me,” Hand stated outdoors court docket.
“To each survivor on the market, I understand how exhausting it’s, however please, don’t be silenced. You need to be heard, you additionally deserve justice. At the moment, I can lastly transfer on and attempt to heal,” Hand added.
McGregor didn’t seem on the attraction listening to.
Following the decision, McGregor stated he would attraction the choice, citing he was “dissatisfied that the jury didn’t hear all of the proof that the DPP reviewed.” In response to the BBC, McGregor’s attraction stemmed from his attorneys feeling his solutions throughout interviews with police “shouldn’t have been put earlier than the jury.”
In the course of the trial, Hand claimed that she later advised a good friend that McGregor “raped and battered” her within the alleged incident on the Beacon Resort penthouse suite in Sandyford, Dublin.
McGregor would testify that the acts had been consensual, and the intercourse was “athletic, bodily,” however denied assaulting Hand, after which telling Hand’s lawyer that “every little thing is a lie.”
As of now, McGregor has not responded to the attraction being denied.
