Conor McGregor loses appeal in rape case

Conor McGregor erstwhile again mislaid the conflict extracurricular the Octagon. The Irish fighter, a erstwhile UFC champion, failed to overturn a 2018 rape and ***ual battle conviction.

According to reports from Dublin, the Civil High Court of Ireland dismissed his appeal, leaving him inactive legally liable for the onslaught connected Nikita Hand. The incidental took spot successful a edifice country successful the Irish capital, and the verdict handed down earlier this twelvemonth remains successful effect.

McGregor entreaty denied, indispensable wage compensation

The squad of experienced fighters tried to alteration the result with assorted ineligible maneuvers. One portion of the entreaty was withdrawn earlier, portion the remaining arguments failed this Thursday.

One of the defense's attempts included caller grounds - statements from neighbors who claimed to person seen Nikita Hand successful a carnal altercation with her spouse hours earlier gathering McGregor. The purpose was to suggest that the injuries were not caused by interaction with the Irishman. However, Hand denied that specified an incidental took place, and that grounds was yet retracted. The judges declined to speculate connected wherefore the materials were not presented astatine the archetypal trial.

The defence besides claimed that the assemblage was asked a question astir "assault" without precisely emphasizing that it was a "***ual assault". The entreaty sheet justice emphasized that determination was nary uncertainty that the assemblage understood the quality of the charge, recalling that Hand had stated that McGregor had "brutally raped" her.

Also, repeated statements of "no comment" during the constabulary interrogation did not help. The defence argued that the assemblage whitethorn not person understood that this did not mean an admittance of guilt. The tribunal did not judge that statement either.

The erstwhile UFC champion present remains obligated to wage 250 1000 euros successful damages, arsenic good arsenic the ineligible costs of Nikita Hand.

Co-defendant James Lawrence, who was acquitted, besides mislaid an entreaty seeking ineligible fees. The tribunal emphasized that the narration betwixt the 2 fighters is "shrouded successful mystery", particularly since McGregor covered Lawrence's expenses, and Lawrence past tried to get a refund from Hand.

The lawsuit further distances McGregor from returning to the Octagon. It has been much than 4 years since his past fight, and his instrumentality against Michael Chandler astatine UFC 303 successful June 2024 was canceled owed to a digit injury.