Conor McGregor assault victim suffered home invasion

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Publish Date: 11/22/2024

On Friday, November 22nd a Dublin court found Conor McGregor liable for damages as a result of his 2018 rape of Nikita Hand.

The Dublin High Court ordered the longtime UFC superstar and former two-division champ to pay nearly a quarter-million euros to Hand as recompense for the assault. McGregor has since taken to social media releasing a statement that he plans to appeal the verdict.

Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse after her victory, Hand said, "I want to show [my daughter] Freya and every other young girl and boy that you can stand up for yourself if something happens to you, no matter who the person is, and that justice will be served."

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Court reveals home invasion in Conor McGregor trial

As part of the court case against Conor McGregor, lawyers revealed a previously unreported crime. Without drawing a direct link between the SBG Ireland fighter and the incident, attorneys acting on Hand's behalf described a home invasion and stabbing Hand and her partner suffered after reporting her rape to authorities.

RTE Ireland reports on June 14th of this year a group of armed, masked men broke into Hand's home. The victim's partner allegedly drove the assailants out of the victim's bedroom. Reports say Hand was uninjured in the attack, but her partner suffered multiple stab wounds. Hand's daughter was in another room of the house and called police during the incident.

During McGregor's court case, Hand's lawyer explained that the victim was "obviously not laying that at the feet of the defendants or saying they had anything to do with that". However they feel that it was a targeted attack from the UFC star's supporters, due to Hand's then ongoing civil case.

Car burning incident

This isn't the first time supporters of Conor McGregor have appeared to intimidate one of his accusers. In 2023, a longtime acquaintance of the fighter claimed he physically assaulted her on his yacht in Ibiza. Shortly after the incident the woman filed a report with police back in Dublin. However, after moving to start her own civil suit unknown assailants vandalized a car belonging to her daughter.

'That was very scary," the woman told reporters. "I was at my daughter's at the time and someone tried to set her car on fire. We had to call the police and they came out to deal with it and what with the case it's made her very jumpy."

A month after the vandalism to her daughter's vehicle the Irish Mirror reported another incident of suspected intimidation. Police investigated reports that someone threw a brick through a window of the alleged victim's house. Shortly after these incidents the woman dropped her civil suit against McGregor.