Conor McGregor’s accuser was found ‘badly bruised’ after alleged rape, doctor says

A woman who accuses a famous cage fighter Conor McGregor of her rape in a civil trial in Ireland was found “extremely bruised” immediately after the alleged attack, a paramedic who treated her has told the High Court in Dublin.

Nikita Hand claims McGregor attacked and raped her in a Dublin hotel room in December 2018.

McGregor, a flamboyant mixed martial artist who was once world champion and one of the highest-paid athletes in the world, has denied all allegations.

“I’ve never seen anyone so bruised, with such a bad bruise,” paramedic Eithne Scully told the Irish court, according to CBS News partner network BBC News, which had a journalist in the courtroom.

Scully said Hand had a cut on her chin and bruising around her lower neck, as well as on her chest, legs, buttocks and thighs.

The jury was shown a video of Hand being treated by Scully, which showed some of her injuries, the BBC said.

Ireland’s High Court began hearing testimony in the civil case last week. Under Irish law, neither the accuser nor the suspect is entitled to anonymity in civil cases, unlike criminal prosecutions.

Irish state broadcaster RTÉ reported that Hand had previously brought criminal charges against McGregor in 2020, but the Director of Public Prosecutions had declined to hear the case, concluding there was no reasonable prospect of convicting McGregor .

Hand appeared in the witness box last week and said she had been at a Christmas party in a Dublin hotel in 2018, where she drank alcohol and used cocaine with McGregor, according to RTÉ. Hand told the court that McGregor forced her onto a bed in the hotel’s penthouse suite and that she could not breathe at the time.

She bit him, she said, and then he allegedly put his arm around her neck and strangled her three times. Hand told the court she thought she would die and never see her daughter again.

Hand said she then made McGregor do “whatever he had to do” so she could survive, after which he raped her, according to RTÉ’s account of her testimony.

Hand was accused by McGregor’s defense team last week of spreading “a web of lies” during cross-examination.

BBC News said McGregor’s lawyers accused Hand of attempted extortion in the civil case. Remy Farrell, McGregor’s lawyer, said Hand told her then-boyfriend in the days after the alleged attack that McGregor had threatened to kill her.

Farrell said Hand left out this detail in her police interviews and pressed her on whether the claim was true.

“Is that something that did or didn’t happen?” Farrell asked her in court, according to the BBC. Hand told the court she could not remember if she said that to her boyfriend at the time.

McGregor has faced previous sexual assault allegations in the United States. In October 2023, the Miami District Attorney’s Office said so would not pursue criminal charges against McGregor after a woman accused him of forcing her to perform oral sex on him following an NBA finals game between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets.

He also previously faced criminal charges in the US alleged attack And criminal evil.

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