A jury had found Conor McGregor guilty of assault

Right, so your definition of her having power is that she’s unlikely to lose her life? Well that’s a high bar you’re setting right there. She should be happy with that. Never mind that you’ve lost your children, they’re now in the sole care of a violent rapist, you have no home, everyone you know is too afraid to help you and you run the risk of being beaten by an unknown number of violent thugs if they can find you. You’re alive. What more do you want?

Fuck me, some of you have absolutely no idea.

There's quite a lot a violent rapist with essentially infinite money can do that falls short of murder, but is still very unpleasant.

I've no idea how Dee feels about any of this. Maybe she's fine with it. But it must surely be obvious that she might not be free to leave if that was what she wanted.

No, there was evidence during the trial that his DNA was not found on Nikita so she didn’t have sex with him.

He claimed that to muddy the waters for his mate

What power does she have?

Serious question. If she wants to keep herself and her children safe, what power does she have?

Really? The man does something absolutely horrific and puts a rape victim through all sorts of trauma. Yet @LuluBlakey1 writes a single sentence about him and the rest of her post is dedicated to how the women around him are in the wrong. What would you call that if not internalised misogyny? The women didn’t rape anyone. The women didn’t threaten anyone. The women didn’t break anyone’s jaw. They aren’t responsible for what that creature did.

I can't speak for the man but I'd say he'd be the type that would say :
If you leave me you'll never see the kids again - at best
Or
If you leave me I will kill you - at worst.

Nikita hand said that he threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

Yes that's what I've seen online too. People are finding more courage to speak out about him.
Once one person speaks out, other people will get courage too

Not the DPP but the witnesses perhaps.

The other lady who was in the hotel was described as a reluctant witness in court and the other guy was his friend. The security there worked for him.

Guy is a fucking lowlife. Watch the statement she made after the verdict. She astonishingly brave.

There are rumours (rumours I said!) swirling around all over the place about payoffs left right and centre. Amongst other things. People are finding the courage to say things now it seems.

Could get interesting.

Keep the kids, assault her and her parents or who ever she flees to, tarnish her name, impoverish her, rape her, break into her safehouse or pay others to do so, pay her friends to take his side, poison the children against her.... would be my guess for starters.

I don't think it's naivety. I think it's that people on here are posting from the UK and just maybe don't have the same knowledge about him that some irish people do.

I live in dublin. I've heard a lot of things about him.

I can see why Dee doesn't leave him, as she is probably afraid for her life.

@LuluBlakey1 is not a misogynist. You and she have differing opinions, both of which are valid.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dee feels unable to leave him, but she clearly rated him somewhere along line.

What a brave woman

Or maybe the DPP was paid off by the multi millionaire...

In Ireland, a criminal case has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

A civil case doesn't have as high a threshold and is more akin to judgement on the balance of probability.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) didn't feel the case would likely meet the threshold required.

I think there's a lot of naivety in relation to his partner Dee. It's not inconceivable to think that she's afraid of a man who has proven to have temper, and history of voilence. He also thinks he is above the law.

She has been with him since her teens, he's all she's ever know and if she leaves him he will be eligible for 50/50 of their 4 kids. Maybe she's thinks she is protecting the kids.

Maybe her self esteem is gone. Maybe it's fear. All I know is that given how he behaves publicly, he's probably worse privately. She knows his associates. She knows he wouldn't take her leaving lightly. I suspect her life isn't an easy one.

Yep you can see his sort a mile off but still women are like bees around a honeypot with them. I don't get it. Just a matter of time til the DA starts then they act all surprised. Men like that should be shunned by all women.

Get someone to stab her?

Did you see how Nikita brought conor to court, and then someone broke into nikitas house and stabbed her partner. A bit of a coincidence.

The people that he hangs around with are violent gang members.

I don't think she is free to leave.

Did you see the way he pulled her along roughly on the way into court.

It will be interesting to see if more women come forward now. And it's disgusting that even with her injuries there was no criminal case to answer to.

I felt most concerned for his partner, in truth. He'll be taking this out on her tonight and she looked shellshocked leaving that court today.

The DPP didn't progress with a criminal case as it would have required them to prove the allegation to a jury beyond reasonable doubt. The only two witnesses to what happened in the hotel penthouse were supporting McGregor's account - I'm not saying they were paid off......but.....

I'm not. He's got an incredible ability to make the most expensive clothing look like something off the market. Hopefully that'll keep them away from his door!

I watch ufc. I watched Saturday night. Rapey Mcgregor was mentioned, but not in any way to do with this case.
I highly doubt the commentator didn't know Rapey was in court.
Seemed in really bad taste imo.
Nobody but Dee knows why she stays. But I can see why she may be afraid to leave.
He's a savage.