Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor has testified that he had consensual sex with a woman who is suing him for sexual assault and claimed she had told nothing but lies.

When John Gordon SC, for Ms Hand, told the fighter, “in simple language”, that his DNA had been found in precisely the same location as the tampon, she looked up. McGregor shook his head slightly and exhaled. His lawyer Remy Farrell objected. Mr McGregor repeated that there was no tampon.

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor denied in a Dublin court on Wednesday that he had sexually assaulted a woman in 2018, saying a civil case brought against him and another man was “full of lies.

Footage of Conor McGregor leaving Dublin High Court. Mr McGregor, who is facing an accusation in the civil action that he 'brutally raped and battered' Nikita Hand, was cross-examined in the High Court on Thursday.

Conor McGregor has appeared in the witness box for a second straight day to deny accusations of rape made in a civil court