Conor McGregor has lost his sexual assault civil case in Dublin. A High Court jury awarded damages of €248,603.60 ($259,149.36) to Nikita Hand against McGregor on Friday after ruling that she was sexually assaulted by the former UFC champion in a Dublin hotel in December 2018.

McGregor denied the allegations, testifying that he never forced the woman to do anything against her will, per the AP.

Nikita Hand alleged that mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor "brutally raped and battered" her in a Dublin hotel penthouse in 2018.

Conor McGregor has said he will appeal a civil court jury’s verdict that he sexually assaulted a woman in a Dublin hotel room. Nikita Hand had accused the mixed martial arts fighter of raping her after a night out in the city in December 2018.

A woman who won her civil claim against Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has said she hoped her case will remind victims of assault to keep “pushing forward for justice”. Nikita Hand, who accused the sportsman of raping her in a Dublin hotel in December 2018,

Nikita Hand said the weeks of her civil case against Conor McGregor have been a ‘nightmare’. Speaking after winning her claim against him for damages in a High Court civil case, Ms Hand said: ‘I would like to start off by saying I’m overwhelmed and touched by the support I have received from everybody.

A jury at civil court has found that UFC superstar Conor McGregor sexually assaulted Nikita Hand in a hotel in 2018 and she gave an emotional statement outside court after the verdict