UFC star Conor McGregor testified in court docket as we speak in a case the place he and one other man are accused of sexually assaulting Nikita Hand.
Justice Alexander Owens is overseeing the Excessive Courtroom civil in opposition to the Irish blended martial arts fighter and one other alleged assailant named James Lawrence.
The lady claims the boys raped her in a Beacon Lodge penthouse suite in Sandyford, Dublin on Dec. 9, 2018.
At Wednesday’s listening to, McGregor denied any wrongdoing, claiming that he and Hand had a consensual sexual encounter after beforehand conversing on-line.
“I assumed we had been getting on nicely,” McGregor mentioned of the encounter at a lodge, the place he and Hand entered a rest room. “She was very boisterous, very energetic, very enthusiastic as I started zipping up my trousers after utilizing the bathroom, we started kissing and have become extra passionate and it took off from there.
“She carried out oral intercourse on me at that second. We had been each clothed after which started to take off our garments. It progressed in a short time.”
Hand’s testimony suggests a distinct story.
“I keep in mind safety guard over by the window and one other safety guard closing the door between the 2 rooms,” Hand mentioned. “I keep in mind panicking. Why is there three males within the room, and I’m the one one in right here?
“I additionally keep in mind strolling into the bed room space, and I keep in mind strolling the 2 rooms trying round and Conor was within the toilet, and he mentioned one thing inappropriate to me. He instructed me to ‘suck on that.’”
“He then pinned me down,” Hand mentioned. “He put his whole-body weight on high of me and I couldn’t breathe. I attempted my finest to get away from him. I used to be attempting to wiggle my method out, do no matter I may. I keep in mind biting him actually exhausting. I keep in mind his arm round me and choking me.
“I used to be attempting to combat as a lot as I may. I bit him, and he didn’t prefer it, it was like he was simply behind me then. He choked me, put his arm round me. I simply keep in mind him behind me, and I believe I used to be sitting on the mattress. He put his arm round my neck and choked me 3 times.”
Based on a report from MMA Preventing, a number of witnesses, together with a physician known as to the stand, described Hand as having seen accidents afterwards to her jawline, neck, arms, legs, fingers, knuckles, buttocks, and proper breast. Hand’s authorized staff later shared a textual content alternate wherein she instructed a pal, “My tampon is caught inside me, so I needed to take away it. By no means going out once more,” a state of affairs she attributes to the alleged assault.
Hand additionally testified that she feared for her life in the course of the assault.
“I simply froze, and I couldn’t transfer, and I couldn’t breathe,” Hand mentioned. “I regarded on the bedpost and was fascinated with my daughter. I stored considering I used to be going to die, and I used to be by no means going to see my daughter once more. … I simply fully thought I used to be going to die.”
“He let me go and I keep in mind I used to be saying sorry to him,” she continued. “Saying I’m sorry, I’m sorry. It felt like I’d executed one thing mistaken. I stored saying sorry…so he wouldn’t damage me once more.
“Your consumer is stuffed with lies,” McGregor mentioned Wednesday to Hand’s lawyer, in accordance with ESPN. “All the things is a lie.”
