Conor McGregor and his fiancee Dee Devlin were all smiles as they enjoyed a date night in London weeks after his rape case loss.
McGregor lost the civil case on November 22 as jurors at the High Court in Dublin found him liable of raping Nikita Hand, 35, in a Dublin hotel on December 9, 2018, with the judge awarding Hand €250,000 in damages.
And now, just under a month later, McGregor’s partner Ms Devlin has taken to Instagram to share a number of pictures of the pair with beaming smiles while enjoying a date night near Piccadilly Circus.
Ms Devlin has stood by her fiancee throughout the court proceedings and following the decision that jury found that McGregor assaulted Ms Hand in the Dublin hotel, The Beacon, in December 2018.
Ms Hand was handed the six-figure damages settlement after a jury believed that the 36-year-old MMA megastar ‘brutally raped’ and ‘battered’ the ex-hair colourist in a Dublin hotel penthouse.
She told the High Court that McGregor ‘pinned’ her down on the bed, choked her three times and left her thinking she was ‘going to die’. ‘I just let him do whatever he needed to do, so I could survive,’ she said of the attack during a drink and cocaine-fuelled Christmas ‘after-party’.
Four days after the court case concluded, Ms McGregor’s partner Ms Devlin delivered a blistering online attack on Ms Hand – telling her ‘My sons will be warned women like you exist in the world’.
In the messages Ms Devlin painted Ms Hand as a party girl who had sent ‘provocative pictures of herself’ to McGregor.
Conor McGregor and his fiancee Dee Devlin were all smiles as they enjoyed a date night in London weeks after his rape case loss
McGregor’s partner Ms Devlin took to Instagram to share a number of pictures of the pair with beaming smiles while enjoying a date night near Piccadilly Circus
The couple pose at Piccadilly Circus with Ms Devlin capturing the Instagram post ‘date night’
Writing on Instagram, she said: ‘Imagine a WOMAN, with her own boyfriend and child, texting provocative pictures of herself to another woman’s man with a family and child on the way.
‘This woman claims to know me, yet still went ahead and sent messages and pictures of herself over and over to my man? Really?
‘Whilst out on a 3 day bender, texting excuses to her own child at home where mammy is on Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, Sunday night into Monday morning.
‘All the while out of her face in a hotel room dancing around a hotel carpark. What sort of WOMAN are you!!!
‘My sons will be warned women like you exist in the world.’
Ms Devlin, McGregor’s partner of 15 years, arrived hand-in-hand with McGregor to the hearings and comforted him when the verdict was delivered, also claimed that CCTV existed that would cast doubt on Ms Hand’s version of events.
She wrote: ‘CCTV DOES NOT LIE. I look forward to the day the world will see the footage of you on that night and the carry on of you. Not a bother on you having the time of your life.
‘This is the real evidence, video footage no one knew was being taken in the moment which you miraculously don’t remember?
‘To me it looks like you’re the one sexually assaulting in the lift. To me it looks like everyone is trying to get away from you.
‘Conor and I dealt with these issues privately many years ago, as should be done in a relationship and we have come out stronger than ever. We have four beautiful children now whose smiling faces and happy hearts are a testament to who he is and who we are!
‘They without sin cast the first stone.’
McGregor’s partner of 15 years, Ms Devlin was pictured arriving hand-in-hand with the mixed martial arts star to the his civil court case
Posting a family snap of McGregor and Ms Devlin with two of their four children, she said: ‘I love him I trust him and I BELIEVE HIM!’
She then went on to launch into a furious rant aimed at Nikita Hand in which she made a series of astonishing allegations before adding: ‘My sons will be warned women like you exist in the world.’
McGregor, pictured with his partner of 15 years Dee Devlin
After the court case, McGregor vowed to appeal the High Court’s decision but expressed his ‘regret’ over ‘mistakes’ made.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he said: ‘People want to hear from me, I needed time. I know I made mistakes.
‘Six years ago, I should have never responded to her outreaches. I should have shut the party down.
‘I should never have stepped out on the woman I love the most in the world. That’s all on me.
‘As much as I regret it, everything that happened that night was consensual and all the witnesses present swore to that under oath.
‘I have instructed my legal team to appeal the decision.’
McGregor was also ordered to pay Ms Hand’s entire £1.25million (€1.5m) legal costs for bringing the civil rape claim in a landmark ruling on December 5.
The jury did not find against McGregor’s co-accused and friend James Lawrence, who should be entitled to recoup his legal fees.
James Lawrence, co-defendant of mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, had his legal fees paid by his friend. Ms Hand also accused McGregor’s friend James Lawrence, 35, of assaulting her on that day. The jury decided that Ms Hand was assaulted by McGregor, but not by his co-accused Lawrence. But Lawrence cannot claim costs from Nikita
McGregor’s statement vowing to appeal his civil sexual assault case defeat but admitted he has made ‘mistakes’
During the civil trial it was revealed that McGregor had paid Lawrence’s legal costs for him.
However, Ms Hand will not have to pay his friend Mr Lawrence’s legal costs, even though she lost her claim against him for assault. She will pay her own costs in relation to her civil case against Mr Lawrence, but nothing more.
Mr Justice Alexander Owens said that he awarded Ms Hand’s costs following the failed defence put forward by McGregor, in which he relied on what Mr Lawrence claimed had happened on the day and night of the incident.
In his ruling the judge declared: ‘Mr Lawrence and Mr McGregor went with the one narrative. The defendants filed a single defence represented by one legal firm. Mr Lawrence has modest means and McGregor was footing his legal bill.
‘It is completely inappropriate to award Mr Lawrence any part of his costs even though he succeeded in his defence against Ms Hand’.
It came after MailOnline revealed Ms Hand’s could end up owing McGregor more money than the €250,000 (£210,000) he has to pay her in damages, if Lawrence’s costs were passed to her.
McGregor has been accused of sex attacks on four other occasions, all of which were dismissed by police, most recently in Miami last year at the NBA Finals.
In every case he has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and on at least one occasion sources close to him said allegations of sexual assault were mendacious and money-related.
However, on this occasion, a jury found that McGregor assaulted Ms Hand in Dublin hotel, The Beacon, in December 2018.
McGregor lost a civil case brought by Ms Hand, 35, (pictured) who won almost €250,000 in damages after she alleged that he raped her in a Dublin hotel on December 9, 2018. A judge has ruled he should pay her £1.25million (€1.5m) costs of bringing the case
Ms Hand is comforted after the decision following two weeks of hearings in Dublin
After deliberating for six hours and 10 minutes, the jury returned with their verdicts
McGregor and his partner, Ms Devlin, outside the High Court in Dublin after the verdict
The jury at the High Court in Dublin had been deliberating for a day before returning its verdict that McGregor did assault Ms Hand.
Following eight days of evidence and a further three of listening to closing speeches and the judge’s comments, the jury of eight women and four men spent just over six hours deliberating before returning with its verdict.
As the verdict was read out, McGregor shook his head, whilst Ms Hand cried and was hugged by her partner and supporters.
In emotional scenes outside the court following the verdict, Ms Hand told reporters said she was ‘overwhelmed and touched’ by the support she had received.
She added: ‘I want to show [my daughter] Freya and every other young girl and boy that you can stand up for yourself if something happens to you, no matter who the person is, and that justice will be served’.
The Proper 12 Irish Whiskey brand was first launched back in 2018 by McGregor, with the fighter and his team eventually selling the brand for a reported sale price of roughly £500 million.
McGregor himself pocketed an estimated £120 million in the deal when selling his majority stake, but has remained a prominent promoter of the whiskey since its 2021 acquisition by Proximo Spirits.
The former two-division UFC champion also currently owns a business empire in his native Ireland which boasts the popular Dublin pub The Blackforge Inn as its public-facing crown.
McGregor has spent an estimated £2.5 million purchasing and renovating the venue on Dublin’s Longmile Road which has become the social media backdrop for the fighter’s online promoting of both Proper 12 whiskey and Forged Irish Stout.
A number of other leading UK retailers have been contacted by the MailOnline but are yet to comment as to whether or not they will continue to stock both of McGregor’s affiliated drinks.
