Conor McGregor rape accuser rejects claim CCTV footage ‘contradicts’ her account
A woman who alleges she was raped by Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor in a Dublin hotel has rejected claims that CCTV footage “contradicts” her account of what happened.
Nikita Hand, who is also known as Nikita Ni Laimhin, is claiming civil damages against Mr McGregor and another man, alleging she was sexually assaulted in December 2018.
Ms Hand, who has no automatic right to anonymity, has accused Mr McGregor of pinning her to a bed and raping her in a hotel bedroom in Dublin.
On her third day of giving evidence at Dublin’s High Court, Ms Hand was cross-examined by Remy Farrell SC, defence barrister for Mr McGregor.
The mother-of-one was distressed and shaking while she was questioned by the barrister.
CCTV footage of the evening of December 9 2018 was replayed to the court, and shows Ms Hand in a lift with her friend, Mr McGregor and the second defendant James Lawrence.
Ms Hand told the court she has no memory of the footage and found it “very hard…
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