Former UFC fighter Conor McGregor speaks within the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on March 17.
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LONDON — The blended martial arts fighter Conor McGregor — who’s from Eire and visited President Trump on the White Home for St. Patrick’s Day this 12 months — has misplaced his enchantment in a rape case.
Eire’s Courtroom of Appeals dominated towards him Thursday, that means a decrease courtroom ruling in a civil case nonetheless holds, and McGregor must pay damages to his accuser.
Final November, a jury discovered the MMA fighter civilly answerable for assault. It ordered him to pay practically 250,000 euros ($285,000) in damages, and about 1.3 million euros ($1.5 million) in authorized prices, to Nikita Hand, who says he “brutally raped and battered” her in a Dublin lodge in 2018.
McGregor, 37, denies that, saying they’d consensual intercourse, and that Hand fabricated any assault.
Hand, 35, had sued McGregor in civil courtroom, after prosecutors declined to deliver felony fees.
McGregor appealed the jury’s order, on grounds that among the directions given to the jury had been complicated, and that McGregor’s feedback to police shouldn’t have been admitted into proof. However his legal professionals didn’t submit extra proof.
Three judges on the Courtroom of Appeals unanimously rejected his enchantment Thursday on all grounds. In addition they discovered that McGregor had paid a good friend to testify on his behalf, and refused to award the good friend reimbursement for authorized prices.
McGregor was the face of the Final Preventing Championship, or UFC, and has hinted on social media a few comeback.
Out of the ring, he has emerged as a far-right determine in Irish politics, criticizing immigration and mainstream politicians. He visited President Trump on the White Home in March, and has mentioned he might run for Irish president, a largely ceremonial position at the moment held by 84-year-old poet and human rights activist Michael Higgins.
Hand was within the Dublin courtroom for Thursday’s appeals ruling; McGregor was not. Afterward, Hand advised reporters the proceedings had “retraumatized” her, however that she now hopes to “transfer on and attempt to heal.” She thanked her legal professionals and a rape disaster heart.
McGregor faces one other sexual assault lawsuit in Florida, for allegedly attacking a lady in 2023 within the toilet of a NBA basketball enviornment.
