Conor McGregor begins attraction towards civil rape case discovering

Eire’s Courtroom of Enchantment was advised on Tuesday morning that McGregor had withdrawn an software to have new proof entered on the attraction.

The proposed proof was from a pair, Samantha O’Reilly and Steven Cummins, who’re former neighbours of Nikita Hand.

A earlier preliminary listening to was advised that they claimed to have witnessed a row between Ms Hand and her former companion Stephen Redmond in December 2018.

The court docket heard McGregor believed the brand new proof urged that bruising on Nikita Hand’s physique might have been attributable to her former companion.

In an affidavit, Ms Hand had described the allegations as unfaithful and lies.

A lawyer for Ms Hand mentioned she had responded to the urged new proof by saying it was “all lies” and that had now been conceded.

He additionally mentioned McGregor needs to be referred for “subornation of perjury”, which means inducing individuals to commit perjury.

McGregor has additionally deserted an software to introduce new proof from the previous state pathologist for Northern Eire Prof Jack Crane.

The attraction is predicated round a number of points arising from the civil trial at Dublin’s Excessive Courtroom final yr.

They embrace reference to the query “did Conor McGregor assault Nikita Hand?” being requested of the jury on the difficulty paper.

Conor McGregor’s authorized workforce say it ought to have specified sexual assault.

Nonetheless, a barrister for Ms Hand mentioned “assault” covers all kinds of assaults including “what we had been coping with was assault by rape”.

He added the query put to the jury “was agreed and the jury couldn’t have been confused by it”.

McGregor can be interesting a difficulty across the dealing with of his solutions in interviews with gardaí (Irish cops).

His authorized workforce defined that the jury heard McGregor gave about 100 “no remark” solutions to gardaí.

His barrister mentioned he had a proper to silence in police interviews and it was “left hanging”, permitting the jury to attract an opposed inference.

Ms Hand’s authorized workforce countered this argument by saying that if this was such a critical subject for McGregor on the time “absolutely an software to discharge the jury would have been made”.

Her barrister mentioned such an software was not made.

McGregor’s authorized attraction can be elevating a difficulty concerning the decide’s cost to the jury in the course of the civil trial.

The attraction is being heard earlier than three Enchantment Courtroom judges.

Ms Hand attended Tuesday’s listening to together with household and mates.