Woman claims Conor McGregor choked her before rape

A pistillate who has accused Irish mixed martial creator Conor McGregor of raping her has told a tribunal helium choked her 3 times and she thought she was going to die.

Nikita Hand has taken civilian enactment Mr McGregor and different man, seeking damages for an alleged enactment onslaught successful a Dublin edifice successful December 2018.

Mr McGregor denies the allegations and his lawyers told an earlier proceeding successful the lawsuit that Ms Hand is attempting extortion.

In 2020, Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions decided not to criminally prosecute either antheral owed to a deficiency of grounds and nary tenable imaginable of conviction.

In a Republic of Ireland civilian enactment arsenic opposed to a transgression case, neither the complainant nor the 2 accused men are entitled to anonymity during the tribunal proceedings.

As she gave grounds connected Wednesday, Ms Hand was visibly shaking and distressed and the tribunal had to beryllium adjourned repeatedly truthful she could person a break.

The erstwhile hairsbreadth colourist outlined her recollections of the alleged attack, which began aft a Christmas nighttime retired with enactment colleagues connected 8 December 2018.

Ms Hand had been drinking and admitted that she had taken immoderate cocaine erstwhile she contacted Mr McGregor that night.

She said Mr McGregor collected her and a person from the salon successful a chauffeured car to spell to different party.

Ms Hand past went to a penthouse suite successful the Beacon Hotel with a radical of radical who included Mr McGregor and his information team.

Ms Hand told the tribunal that she said to Mr McGregor that she was not determination for enactment - that she had a fellow and she knew his partner.

But she claimed that McGregor placed her successful a chokehold connected the edifice furniture and choked her 3 times.

"He pinned maine down connected the bed, I held my hands to my chest, helium enactment his assemblage value connected apical of me," she said.

Ms Hand said she could not respire and was struggling to escaped herself from his grip.

"The lone happening I could determination was my head, truthful the lone defence was to wound him," she said.

"I spot him, I cognize I spot him. He didn't similar it. So helium flipped astir and had maine by the cervix and shoulders."

Ms Hand alleged that astatine this signifier she froze.

"I couldn't move, I was staring astatine the furniture station reasoning astir my daughter, reasoning I was gonna die," she said.

"I thought I'd ne'er spot my girl again."

After this, she alleged that Mr McGregor fto her spell and she apologised to him to "reassure" him truthful that "he wouldn't wounded maine again".

Ms Hand said that McGregor said: "'That's however I felt successful the octagon and I had to pat myself retired 3 times'.

She added: "I thought it was specified a weird happening to say. I promised him I wouldn't archer anyone anything.

"I conscionable fto him bash immoderate helium request to do, truthful I could survive, I wasn't myself anymore."

After this, Ms Hand alleges the MMA combatant pulled disconnected her apparel and raped her.

In the clip since the alleged attack, the tribunal heard Ms Hand has been incapable to enactment owed to intelligence wellness issues and is surviving connected disablement allowance.

Her narration with her fellow has ended and her owe is successful arrears.

She had psychotherapy but tin nary longer spend the treatment, the tribunal was told.

The lawsuit continues.