A lady who alleges she was raped by MMA star Conor McGregor has denied that CCTV footage from the day in query “flatly contradicts” her account.
In an emotional morning of cross-examination, the girl’s model of occasions had been questioned by McGregor’s counsel, Remy Farrell SC.
In CCTV footage performed to the courtroom, dated after the time of the alleged rape, McGregor is seen getting right into a elevate with the girl, his co-defendant James Lawrence, and the girl’s buddy.
It seems to point out the girl getting near McGregor, in an act his attorneys say was a hug, and likewise showing to kiss him on the arm.
The lady instructed the courtroom that it was “very disturbing” for her to observe the footage. She mentioned: “I’m very drunk, I’m stumbling. It’s not my character. I’m very vulnerable and I don’t want to have to look at it again.”
The courtroom was obliged to take a brief break earlier than the footage was performed as the girl broke down in tears.
In his cross examination, Mr Farrell mentioned that in accordance with her account, on the time of the CCTV footage: “You’re black and blue, you’ve been raped and nearly strangled… you’d feared for your life and you thought you’d never see your daughter again.”
The lady replied: “Yes. That’s what happened.”
Mr Farrell continued: “But you’d forgotten all that by the time you got into the lift, is that right?”
‘I do know what occurred’
The lady repeatedly claimed that she had no recollection of the occasions depicted on the CCTV. She mentioned she was “confused” and that her “mind was gone”.
“The CCTV footage doesn’t take away from what happened to me in that room with Conor. I know what happened to me. I was brutally raped and battered,” she mentioned.
The lady additionally instructed Mr Farrell that she had requested buddies to delete textual content messages from the night time in query. She mentioned she had accomplished so as a result of: “I was afraid for my life.”
She additionally agreed with Mr Farrell that she had instructed repeated lies to her associate about the place she was and who she had been with.
Beneath questioning, she responded: “It’s not a crime to tell your boyfriend a lie.”
The lady is suing McGregor and Mr Lawrence for assault in relation to an alleged rape at Dublin’s Beacon Resort in December 2018.
It’s a civil, not a felony trial, after Eire’s Director of Public Prosecutions beforehand determined to not prosecute the case.
Each McGregor and Mr Lawrence declare they’d consensual intercourse with the girl on the day in query, and deny any allegation of rape.
The lady’s cross examination will proceed this afternoon, and the trial at Dublin’s Excessive Courtroom is anticipated to final one other week.
