I just froze and I couldn’t move or breathe and I kept looking at the bedpost and thinking of my daughter. I just kept thinking I would die and not see my daughter again.”

Conor McGregor’s barrister has told the woman who has accused the fighter of rape that CCTV evidence ‘flatly contradicts’ her ‘story’. However, Nikita Hand said the footage shows a vulnerable, drunk woman ‘who should have been looked after’.

Conor McGregor was accused of committing a “vicious and violent” sexual assault, as evidence was presented on the opening day of a civil case in Irish High Court.

This story contains a graphic description of alleged sexual assault. A woman who alleges she was raped in Dublin by the Irish-born Mixed Martial Arts fighter Conor McGregor claims she was attacked with such force by the fighter that a tampon she was wearing became wedged inside her vagina,

Nikita Hand is claiming civil damages against McGregor and another man, alleging she was sexually assaulted. Mr McGregor's lawyers told the court Ms Hand, who has no automatic right to anonymity, is attempting extortion.

Conor McGregor is currently facing rape allegations stemming back to a woman who accused him of sexual assault back in 2018. The victim — who goes by the name of Nikita Ni Laimhin —filed a civil lawsuit against the Irish boxer and another man,