A jury had found Conor McGregor guilty of assault

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrxl00151o

Nikita had such terrible bruising, a paramedic hasn't seen such extensive bruising, she had to have a tampon removed from her cervix, she's had her house/car attacked, mum threatened, intruders broke into her home and tried to stab her bf/ threatening her and her bf he tried to pay her off in 2019 for a million, she said no I want justice.

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.

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.

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.

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

What a brave woman

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

What power does she have?

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

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

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.

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.

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 🙄

@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.

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.

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.

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.