{"id":15516,"date":"2025-08-01T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=15516"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:56:21","slug":"irish-court-rejects-conor-mcgregor-appeal-in-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/irish-court-rejects-conor-mcgregor-appeal-in-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish court rejects Conor McGregor appeal in sexual assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor<\/a> on Thursday lost his attempt to overturn a jury\u2019s order that he compensate a woman who accused him of raping her, with Ireland\u2019s Court of Appeal rejecting the appeal in its entirety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plaintiff, Nikita Hand, alleged that McGregor sexually assaulted her on December 9, 2018. A jury last year ordered McGregor<\/a> to pay her nearly 250,000 euros ($285,250) in damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGregor, 36, denied the allegation and said he had \u201cfully consensual sex\u201d with Hand. He also denied causing bruising to the plaintiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the appeal heard earlier this month, lawyers for McGregor said the judge erred in directing the jury to decide whether he \u201cassaulted\u201d rather than \u201csexually assaulted\u201d the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judge Brian O\u2019Moore said on Thursday that the appeal court had no doubt the overall effect of the trial judge\u2019s charge was to tell them the central allegation by Hand against McGregor was that he had raped her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGregor\u2019s legal team had also argued that the judge should not have allowed a line of questioning during cross-examination regarding McGregor\u2019s \u201cno comment\u201d responses in a police interview. That ground was also rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hand embraced a number of people beside her after the appeal court ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo every survivor out there, I know how hard it is, but please don\u2019t be silenced. \u2026 You deserve to be heard, you also deserve justice. Today, I can finally move on and try to heal,\u201d Hand said in a statement outside the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hand told the high court in November that she and a friend made contact with McGregor, whom she knew, after a work Christmas party. She said they were driven by McGregor to a party in a penthouse room of a Dublin hotel where drugs and alcohol were consumed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said McGregor<\/a>, who was not in court on Thursday, took her to a bedroom in the penthouse and sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hand\u2019s lawyer told the jury that when she was referred to a sexual assault treatment unit the day after the alleged assault, a doctor was so concerned that he directed that photographs be taken of her injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor on Thursday lost his attempt to overturn a jury\u2019s order that he compensate a woman who accused him of raping her, with Ireland\u2019s Court of Appeal rejecting the appeal in its entirety. The plaintiff, Nikita Hand, alleged that McGregor sexually assaulted her on December 9, 2018. A jury last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-10-51-07-Conor-McGregor-Irish-court-rejects-appeal-in-sexual-assault-case-CNN.png?fit=1026%2C578&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15518,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions\/15518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}