A hushed and packed courtroom was present when Nikita Hand won her civil case against the MMA star.
On Friday, Nikita Hand, a woman who accused mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor of raping her,BBC News NI was in the packed courtroom when the jury, who had deliberated for a day, delivered its verdicts.Conor McGregor and Nikita Hand were seated relatively close to each towards the back of the courtroom.A momentous decision awaited these two people almost six years after they spent time together in a Dublin hotel, on 9 December 2018.
He was also joined by his parents as well as a small group of supporters who stood immediately behind him in the back corner of the courtroom.While the judge addressed the jury at the beginning of proceedings in the morning, Conor McGregor fixed his gaze on them. A court official, eventually, had to ask some of the people who were standing at the back to leave and go to the upstairs public gallery.Mike O’DonnellBefore addressing the jury, the judge said he wanted “calm” for the verdicts and warned that “anyone who makes a scene will find themselves in jail”.
People started making their way out of the courtroom and the media rushed outside to prepare to relay this news to a global audience.
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