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Cillian Sherlock

McGregor appeal material to be referred to DPP amid perjury concern

Nikita Hand, who is also known as Nikita Ni Laimhin, leaving the Court of Appeal in Dublin (Niall Carson/PA) - (PA Wire)

An Irish court has said it will refer claims by witnesses Conor McGregor pulled from his appeal to the director of public prosecutions (DPP), after concerns about perjury arose.

It came after a request by the lawyer of Nikita Hand, 35, who successfully sued McGregor in a civil court over an incident in which he was alleged to have “brutally raped and battered” her in a penthouse at a south Dublin hotel in December 2018.

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