Trigger warning: This story contains a graphic description of alleged sexual assault.
A woman who alleges she was raped in Dublin by the Irish-born Mixed Martial Arts fighter Conor McGregor claims she was attacked with such force by the fighter that a tampon she was wearing became wedged inside her vagina, and later had to be removed with forceps. In graphic evidence presented at the High Court in Dublin, Nikita Hand’s legal team said she was pinned down and raped by McGregor at a December 2018 gathering in a Dublin hotel suite, to which she had been invited because her partner was friends with McGregor’s partner’s brother. Her attorney said McGregor flipped her over, put her in an arm lock and told her: “Now you know what it was like to be in the Octagon when I went down three times.” Dr Daniel Kane, a gynecologist who examined Hand in the sexual assault unit of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital on Dec. 10th, 2018 told the court she was distressed and crying and found it difficult to sit due to pain. Upon examining her he found the tampon, and said he had conducted some 340 examinations of women and this was the first time he found a tampon still inside a woman after sexual intercourse, according to a report in the Irish Times. Hand‘s attorney said: “Mr McGregor will tell you that this was a consensual encounter, that they were just having fun and a bit of rough sex. That’s his answer... What he is saying is that she gave him a license to carry out what has to have been a brutal assault on her body.” McGregor’s team claim the civil case is an attempt at extortion.
Read it at The Irish Times
