MMA fighter Conor McGregor was found liable in a civil rape and sexual assault case in an Ireland court on Friday, according to multiple reports.
The 36-year-old athlete was accused in a civil suit brought forward in 2021 of “brutally” raping and battering a woman named Nikita Hand while she was intoxicated in Dec. 2018, after she invited McGregor to join her and a friend at a company holiday party in Dublin.
A civil jury determined that McGregor was liable of sexually assaulting Hand, and has been ordered to pay damages to her totaling nearly €250,000, which converts into roughly $257,000 in U.S. dollars, according to the Associated Press.
Lawyers for Hand claimed that the woman was left with bruises and post-traumatic stress disorder after the assault. She also accused a friend of McGregor’s, James Lawrence, of assaulting her on the night in question, found Lawrence did not assault her, according to the Guardian.
Following the verdict, McGregor ducked reporters and declined to comment while leaving the courthouse.