DUBLIN — A girl accusing Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her in a Dublin lodge in 2018 testified in an Irish courtroom on Tuesday at first of a civil case in search of monetary damages towards the blended martial arts star.
McGregor was on the Excessive Courtroom in Dublin for the start of a case that’s anticipated to final round two weeks.
The alleged incident befell on Dec. 9, 2018 and the civil motion was filed in 2021.
McGregor and one other man, James Lawrence, are the defendants.
A spokesperson for McGregor has beforehand denied the allegations, saying the Irish police had investigated and declined to convey legal fees.
In her testimony, the lady stated she informed McGregor she didn’t really feel snug after being left alone with him in a bed room within the penthouse suite of a Dublin lodge, Britain’s PA information company reported.
“I attempted to speak him round, that I didn’t wish to have intercourse and wasn’t there for something like that,” the lady stated about McGregor within the courtroom. “He simply wasn’t taking no for a solution.”
John Gordon, the lawyer for the lady, stated she and McGregor have been recognized to one another as they have been in the identical age group, from the identical space, had mutual buddies and had been involved at varied occasions by means of social media.
Daniel Keane, who works as a gynecologist in addition to a forensic examiner in sexual assault circumstances, additionally testified on the primary day of the case.
Keane stated the lady was “shaking and crying” after being introduced in by ambulance the day after the alleged assault to the hospital the place he was working.
He detailed bruising throughout the lady’s physique and stated the extent of it was “fairly uncommon.”
PA reported that attorneys for McGregor will argue that the act between him and the lady was consensual.
It wasn’t instantly clear when they are going to current their arguments.
