The Irish combined martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has been ordered to pay your entire authorized prices, estimated at €1.5m (£1.24m), in relation to a civil rape case introduced by a girl in Dublin, a decide has dominated.
It comes on prime of the close to €250,000 damages he was ordered to pay final month after a jury discovered he had assaulted Nikita Hand in a Dublin lodge after a Christmas get together in 2018.
The decide additionally mentioned Hand shouldn’t be accountable for the prices incurred by McGregor’s co-defendant, James Lawrence, who the jury discovered didn’t assault the hair colourist from Dublin.
He was a longstanding buddy of McGregor’s however that they had filed a joint defence and have been due to this fact working “in lock step” with one another, the decide instructed the excessive courtroom in Dublin.
Had he discovered in any other case, Hand may have been accountable for an estimated €400,000 in authorized prices, making her success final month a pyrrhic victory.
“It’s fully inappropriate to award Mr Lawrence any a part of his prices though he succeeded in his defence in opposition to Ms Hand,” Justice Alexander Owens dominated.
Hand had claimed that McGregor brutally assaulted and raped her in a civil case introduced following the director of public prosecution’s resolution to not deliver prison proceedings.
Her authorized crew argued that Lawrence had invented the story he had consensual intercourse together with her to make her out to be a “hussy”.
The courtroom had heard that she had suffered average to extreme bruises and was nonetheless experiencing PTSD with night time terrors, panic assaults and anxiousness.
The decide mentioned he had not but determined what he was going to do about social media posts after the trial, through which McGregor complained he had been tried in a “kangaroo courtroom”. He mentioned he might institute contempt of courtroom proceedings.
His barrister, Remy Farrell. mentioned an attraction was “extremely doubtless”.
The matter will subsequent be mentioned at a listening to on 16 January.
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