DUBLIN (AP) 鈥 A woman accusing Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her in a Dublin hotel in 2018 testified in an Irish court on Tuesday at the start of a civil case seeking financial damages against the mixed martial arts star.
McGregor was at the High Court in Dublin for the beginning of a case that is expected to last around two weeks.
The alleged incident took place on Dec. 9, 2018 and the civil action was filed in 2021. McGregor and another man, James Lawrence, are the defendants.
A spokesperson for McGregor , saying the Irish police had investigated and declined to bring criminal charges.
In her testimony, the woman said she told McGregor she didn鈥檛 feel comfortable after being left alone with him in a bedroom in the penthouse suite of a Dublin hotel, Britain鈥檚 PA news agency reported.
鈥淚 tried to talk him around, that I didn鈥檛 want to have sex and wasn鈥檛 there for anything like that,鈥 the woman said about McGregor in the courtroom. 鈥淗e just wasn鈥檛 taking no for an answer.鈥
John Gordon, the lawyer for the woman, said she and McGregor were known to each other as they were in the same age group, from the same area, had mutual friends and had been in contact at various times through social media.
Daniel Keane, who works as a gynecologist as well as a forensic examiner in sexual assault cases, also testified on the first day of the case. Keane said the woman was 鈥渟haking and crying鈥 after being brought in by ambulance the day after the alleged assault to the hospital where he was working. He detailed bruising across the woman鈥檚 body and said the extent of it was 鈥渜uite unusual.鈥
PA reported that lawyers for McGregor will argue that the act between him and the woman was consensual. It wasn't immediately clear when they will present their arguments.
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