A jury in a civil court has found Conor McGregor raped a woman in a Dublin hotel in 2018 - and has awarded her €188,000 (£156,000) in damages.
A jury in a civil court has found Conor McGregor raped a woman in a Dublin hotel in 2018 - and has awarded her €188,000 in damages. The Irish mixed martial arts fighter, 36, previously told Dublin's High Court he had consensual sex with the woman in a penthouse at the Beacon Hotel in December 2018. The woman alleged McGregor pinned her to a bed, choked her three times and 'brutally raped and battered' her.
On Monday, McGregor's legal team also told jurors it did not matter if they did not like or even loathed the famous fighter, urging them to look at the evidence and not his character. McGregor and the claimant knew each other and had occasionally been in contact on social media, the civil trial heard. Before the alleged assault, the woman contacted the fighter, who picked up her and a friend in his car.
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