Conor McGregor's rape accuser moved after masked men break in and stab boyfriend

The woman who accused Conor McGregor of rape and subsequently won £200k in a civil claim for damages, was forced to relocate after her home was broken into by a group of men wearing balaclavas, believed to be supporters of the UFC fighter. They stabbed her boyfriend while their baby was sleeping in the next room.

Nikita Hand, the accuser, won her claim against the sportsman at the High Court in Dublin on Friday. Former UFC champion McGregor had been accused of "brutally raping and battering" Hand at a hotel in south Dublin in December 2018, an accusation he denied in court.

After just over six hours of deliberation, the jury returned their verdicts that McGregor, 36, had assaulted Ms Hand. Hand, also known as Nikita Ni Laimhin, lost her case against another man, James Lawrence, whom she accused of assaulting her by allegedly having sex without her consent at the same hotel.

McGregor, accompanied by his family, including his partner Dee Devlin, parents, sister and brother-in-law, shook his head after the jury announced that Hand had won her case against him. At the beginning of the trial, the terrifying story of the break-in emerged, in the context of a claim she wanted to make, for the cost of moving away from Drimnagh in Dublin.

With no jury present, her counsel, John Gordon, told Judge Alexander Owens that the incident had occurred on June 14 this year - although there was no suggestion that McGregor had anything to do with the break-in, reports the Mirror.

"The plaintiff's home was invaded by a group of men wearing balaclavas," Gordon said. "They broke into the plaintiff's bedroom, and were driven out by the plaintiff's partner, who suffered a stab wound in the process. Her daughter was in the next room, sleeping."

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