Conor McGregor faces sexual assault trial — RT World Information

An Irish hairdresser has advised a Dublin court docket that combined martial arts fighter Conor McGregor violated her in a resort room in December 2018.

Nikita Ni Laimhin has filed civil fees towards McGregor and his good friend James Lawrence, alleging they sexually assaulted her after a Christmas celebration. The MMA fighter’s attorneys have accused her of making an attempt extortion.

Ni Laimhin alleges the 2 males “in impact raped her,” the jury in Justice Alexander Owens’ courtroom was advised on Tuesday, in response to the Guardian.

In line with her lawyer John Gordon, the hairdresser lived together with her associate and seven-year-old daughter within the Dublin suburb of Drimnagh on the time. She went out with some associates on the evening of the alleged incident, having consumed alcohol and “some cocaine,” Gordon stated, noting that she was additionally taking antidepressants on the time.

By Gordon’s account, Ni Laimhin was partying at her salon with a feminine good friend and messaged McGregor in some unspecified time in the future through the evening. He drove over and picked them up, whereas additionally sharing “a bag of cocaine” with them. The group then went to a penthouse suite within the Beacon Lodge within the Irish capital.

McGregor allegedly went right into a bed room and “got here on to” the plaintiff, Gordon alleged, however she refused his sexual advances as a result of she was on her interval. That’s when McGregor “pinned her down” and had his method together with her, the lawyer claimed.

“Now you realize what it was prefer to be within the Octagon once I went down 3 times,” the MMA fighter allegedly stated after the third time, Gordon claimed, calling it “a violent and cruel assault.”

After arriving house, Ni Laimhin known as her mom, who known as an ambulance. The court docket additionally heard the testimony of Dr Daniel Keane, who works as a forensic examiner in sexual assault circumstances, and was on obligation on the Rotunda Hospital’s emergency room when Ni Laimhin was introduced in.

Keane stated she was “very upset” and was “shaking and crying.” He additionally described the “fairly uncommon” bruising on her face, arms, fingers, wrists, legs and decrease again, in addition to a scratch on her left breast. 

“Within the face of this, Mr McGregor will inform you that this was a consensual encounter, that they had been simply having enjoyable and a little bit of tough intercourse,” Gordon advised the jury.  “What he’s saying is that she gave him a license to hold out what has to have been a brutal assault on her physique.”

Gordon stated McGregor was “enormously well-known” and was thought-about a “hero” round Drimnagh, and stated that his consumer was “courageous” for demanding compensation to which she’s entitled.

McGregor’s attorneys have but to current their case. A short filed with the court docket stated they’d argue that Ni Laimhin was partaking in tried extortion.

The world-famous MMA fighter has beforehand hinted at operating for the presidency of Eire in 2025, describing himself because the “solely logical alternative” to carry accountable the “thieves of the working man” and “disrupters of the household unit” presently in energy.