A forensic physician, called on behalf of Conor McGregor, has given evidence in relation to bruising at the MMA fighter’s civil legal action.

Nikita Hand told her boyfriend that she believed Conor McGregor would "kill her" if she spoke about the rape she alleges happened in Dublin in 2018.

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.

McGregor, who denies the allegations, also denied before the jury of four men and eight women that he intended to use James Lawrence as a ‘patsy’ and the “fall guy” in the case - and also confirmed th

Conor McGregor has accused a woman who is suing him over an alleged rape in a Dublin hotel of being “full of lies”.

He smiles and speaks softly when describing the relaxed mood of his joyous night out which turned into a day, always stressing the “happiness” and the “excitement” of this “fun” party occasion which began in various city nightspots and ended with “athletic” sex between him and Nikita Hand.

At one stage, as Conor McGregor was recounting the various different positions he had sex with Nikita Hand in, the evidence booklet resting on his knee fell to the floor.