A jury had found Conor McGregor guilty of assault

You have no idea if she doesn’t have a choice. There’s more support for women than ever and no court in the land would ever give him custody. She had the money and she would have bags of support. There’s also 4 children who are at risk and it’s a disservice to them to say “Oh well their mum is trapped”. Which is why I hope SS are involved

@EvilsElsasPetSnowman genuine question. Do you think he would really let her leave with his kids?
Do you really truly believe there would be no violent repercussions for her?

@Mebebecat exactly this. That woman is trapped. Do you really think he would ever let her leave with his kids. Never.
All the people coming at her saying how awful she is and berating her for staying with him, clearly do not understand anything about abusive relationships.
She doesnt have a choice. He has money, strength, power and connections.
He is a violent aggressive rapist. I doubt she would get out of the situation alive if she attempted to leave him.

I follow boxing but the reason I know of this rapist is because of publicity around his criminal behaviour

Oh give over

She has a hell of a lot more money and power than the vast majority of women. She also has 4 children to protect. It’s not hard to leave but staying with an extremely violent man and hanging off his arm at his rape trial is hardly admirable qualities. At what point do we say “Actually she really should leave now”? When he kills someone? When he beats one of his children?

I hope social services are involved in the family - Dee Devlin is choosing to stay in a relationship with a demonstrably violent man. If that was Barry from Asda his children would be on the at risk register. I hope the same happens to this odious rapist

Good.

How the fuck Conor McGregor isn’t serving a life sentence for all the crimes he has committed I’ll never know. Including the intimidation of witnesses and relative ls of his victims. His Mrs ought to be ashamed to still be hanging off his arm. I wish I could ask her if the money if worth staying with a rapist

You said What astonishes me is he has a partner and parents who are standing by him. How could anyone do that? I am baffled by any woman being able to support a piece of shit like this I tried to explain to you that none of us know whether or not she’s supporting him or not and that it’s entirely possible that she’s there because she’s doing her best to keep herself and her children safe. And instead of acknowledging that, you continued to rail against women rather than the men who commit these crimes. I’m obviously paraphrasing here, but it was along the lines of ‘yes, I’ve already said he’s disgusting, but let’s go back to criticising the women’.

And again, I ask you what choices she has? Do you think a violent man that treats women as things to do with as and when he pleases, will happily wave her off with their four children? Would you leave your children in the sole care of a violent rapist?

Even leaving this aside, he's got a criminal conviction list as long as your arm.

Do you honestly believe he has committed no crimes?

I very much hope you mean that he's not been convicted of a crime in a criminal court.

@SabinaSteele

This isn't the Sopranos for goodness sake

I wouldn't be so sure. CMG sister is married into this lot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KinahanOrganiseddCrimeGroup

Blooody hell. This guy sounds like an absolute nightmare. How is he not locked up?!

You can roll your eyes as much as you like. If you can’t see it, then I don’t know what to say to you. We’re unlikely to change each other’s opinion so I suggest we agree to differ and leave it there.

There's a lot of coked up scumbags around, did you hear about that poor woman who was tortured due to her friends drug debt recently?

I definitely wouldn't put it past McGregor to make her life an absolute nightmare if she left. I'm not saying he'd get Dee tortured but just saying he'd easily find people out there to scare her and watch her etc.

I put all the blame on him fir his actions- never said anything else. But if you support him- you minimise his actions- and I can not understands any woman doing that.

Women have choices. Not necessarily easy ones but they have choices.

Well aren’t you the lucky one?

I don’t know if you are incredibly naive, a bit thick or trying to be intentionally insulting, but if you think that leaving a violent man is as simple as telling him not to do anything to stop you or you’ll report him to the police, then I’m happy for you that you’ve never had that experience. I really am.

Who knows, she might be blissfully in love with him and believing everything that comes out of his mouth. Who are we to know? But his crimes are not her crimes.

I think the DPP did have a chance at getting a guilty verdict. Yes there's a lot of people who don't understand the aftermath of rape and behaviour but I still think that there was a chance. The evidence about her injuries was very strong.

The amount of damages awarded to Nikita were disappointing, and especially that they didn't give any exemplary damages. So I suppose a jury for a criminal case could have found similar, they found in favour of her but they weren't particularly damning of him, but then a different 12 jurors could have felt more strongly so it's impossible to know.

I mean... Nikita Hand's house got broken into and her partner was stabbed. Samantha Murphys car was burned out. There's a definite pattern..I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of Dee Devlin if she was contemplating leaving.

What a vile individual. He looks like an angry bollock. Wishing Nikita all the best - what an ordeal she has been through. Amazing woman to stand up to him.

@SabinaSteele
The most dangerous time for a woman is when they try to leave their violent partner. Women get murdered by their partners all the bloody time.

We don't know why she stays, perhaps she was brought up in a violent home and this feels normal to her. Perhaps he's controlling her.

Either way she has done nothing wrong.

With people surprised that his parents were there. As a mother I would stand beside (not necessarily behind) my son . I would be horrified and disgusted but I would always be there: I would even feel like I bore responsibility for what had happened.

She didn't say the women were responsible for his behaviour. She was frustrated that women having relationships with and being involved with these kinds of men might send out a message that they condone their disgusting behaviour.

If the women are there by choice, @LuluBlakey1 has a point, but obviously in this case we don't know but suspect it's no longer by choice.

I agree with you, but Lulu is not a misogynist 🙄