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A jury in the civil lawsuit against Conor McGregor found the former UFC champion liable for rape.
Per Sky News, the jury rendered its decision on Friday after the woman alleged McGregor raped her during an encounter in 2018.
The woman was awarded financial damages totaling roughly $258,000 (€248,000). McGregor left the High Court in Dublin without making any statement or comment on the decision.
The civil lawsuit was originally filed in 2021 with McGregor and another man listed as defendants.
During the trial, the woman testified in court she told McGregor she didn’t feel comfortable being left alone with him when they were in the bedroom of a penthouse suite at a hotel in Dublin.
“I tried to talk him around, that I didn’t want to have sex and wasn’t there for anything like that,” the woman said during her testimony. “He just wasn’t taking no for an answer.”
She also said McGregor choked her three times, placed her in a chokehold, “pinned” her down on the bed with his “body weight on top of me” and “brutally raped and battered” her.
A paramedic who examined the woman after the alleged attack said as part of her testimony that the woman was “very bruised” at the time and the “intensity of bruising” was not something she was accustomed to seeing in her experience.
McGregor denied the allegations during his testimony, calling the sexual encounter consensual.
“These allegations are false,” he said, “I’m here to say my piece and my truth, these allegations are lies, they’re false.”
Police investigated the woman’s complaint, but no formal charges were brought against McGregor when prosecutors determined a conviction was unlikely.
A former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion, McGregor hasn’t competed in a formal mixed martial arts bout since losing to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 on July 10, 2021.
McGregor was scheduled to make his return earlier this year at UFC 303 against Michael Chandler, but he was forced to withdraw from the show due to an injury.
