The Irish combined martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has been ordered to pay the complete 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 high 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 occasion in 2018.
The decide additionally mentioned Hand shouldn’t be chargeable 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 good friend of McGregor’s however that they had filed a joint defence and had been subsequently working “in lock step” with one another, the decide instructed the excessive court docket in Dublin.
Had he discovered in any other case, Hand might have been chargeable 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 regardless that he succeeded in his defence towards 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 choice to not deliver prison proceedings.
Her authorized workforce argued that Lawrence had invented the story he had consensual intercourse along with her to make her out to be a “hussy”.
The court docket had heard that she had suffered reasonable to extreme bruises and was nonetheless experiencing PTSD with evening terrors, panic assaults and nervousness.
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 court docket”. He mentioned he could institute contempt of court docket proceedings.
His barrister, Remy Farrell. mentioned an enchantment was “extremely probably”.
The matter will subsequent be mentioned at a listening to on 16 January.
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