Irish combined martial arts fighter Conor McGregor raped a lady in a Dublin lodge, town’s Excessive Court docket has been instructed.
The alleged sufferer is claiming civil damages in opposition to Mr McGregor and one other man, alleging she was sexually assaulted in 2018.
However, the court docket heard on Tuesday, Mr McGregor’s legal professionals say the girl is trying extortion.
The fighter, nicknamed “Notorious”, was in court docket to listen to Justice Alexander Owens inform the jury it’s alleged the girl was sexually assaulted by Mr McGregor and James Lawrence on December 9.
The decide mentioned that it’s alleged that the pair had “in effect raped her”.
The court docket was instructed Mr McGregor collected the girl and her buddy following a Christmas occasion on December 8.
John Gordon SC for the alleged sufferer mentioned that the pair have been recognized to one another as they have been in the identical age group, from the identical space and had mutual mates and had been in touch at varied occasions by social media.
On the time she lived in a Dublin suburb along with her accomplice and little one. She had been out with mates on the night time of the alleged incident.
On the night time, she had been ingesting and had taken some cocaine. The court docket additionally heard that she suffered from melancholy and had been on anti-depressants.
The court docket was instructed that in a while within the night time, the girl and two of her mates returned to her administrative center the place they continued to occasion and in some unspecified time in the future, she contacted Mr McGregor.
Mr McGregor collected her and her buddy in his automobile, and the alleged sufferer understood they have been to be taken to a different occasion.
He sat within the backseat with the 2 ladies, whereas his driver took them round housing estates and beeped the horn.
They later went to the house of Mr Lawrence, who joined them within the automobile.
The court docket was instructed that Mr McGregor had a bag of cocaine, which was shared between Mr McGregor, the complainant and her buddy.
The group, which included the complainant, Mr McGregor in addition to his safety group and others, then went to a penthouse suite within the Beacon Lodge in Dublin.
The court docket was instructed that they have been all ingesting and laughing. At one level, Mr McGregor went right into a bed room and beckoned the complainant to affix him.
The court docket was instructed that Mr McGregor “came on to her”, however she didn’t need to have sexual activity with him as she was on her interval.
Mr Gordon instructed the court docket that she alleged that Mr McGregor pinned her down on the mattress and that she was no bodily match for him.
“She will tell you that she was nervous, that she tried to push him off her but she was completely unable to do so,” he added.
“You will see pictures of her hands and wrists which are black and blue. You will see that her left breast has a bloodied scratch. The scratch is there because she was wearing a watch and had her hands up to protect herself. She was pressed down on and the watch scarred her breast.
“Mr McGregor then flips her over and places her arm in a lock and attracts her up by the neck. She will’t breathe. And he does it once more.
“By the third time he does it, she gives up. She can’t resist this any more. In the course of this he says: ‘Now you know what it was like to be in the Octagon when I went down three times.’
“She was at this level fully terrified. She subjected herself to what was about to occur, which was a violent and harsh assault.”
It is alleged later that she had sex with Mr Lawrence, but Mr Gordon said she has no recollection of such an event ever happening.
The complainant later went home and visited her mother, who called 999. She was taken to hospital in an ambulance. The court was told that she was shaking and in pain while being transferred to hospital.
Mr Gordon said: “Within the face of this, Mr McGregor will let you know that this was a consensual encounter, that they have been simply having enjoyable and a little bit of tough intercourse. That is his reply.
“What did I say about common sense? Don’t be fooled into leaving it behind in this (court) room.
“What he’s saying is that she gave him a licence to hold out what has to have been a brutal assault on her physique.”
The defence claimed in the evidence booklet that the complainant had several opportunities to complain to people about how she was treated but did not.
It will also claim that the alleged victim is engaged in an attempt at extortion, the court heard.
Mr Gordon said that his client is being called a “gold digger and a fraud”, adding: “Courageous. However the place is the bravery on this? Bravery finally sits with my consumer.
“Because she pursued her mission for vindication and compensation to which she is entitled. And for these defendants to breezily and cheekily dispose of her claim is something you will consider in due course.”
Earlier the jury was sworn in on the Excessive Court docket and instructed that they’re judges of truth as to what occurred and should draw a conclusion and will probably be primarily based on their choice.
The motion is anticipated to final round two weeks.
