Manager urged family to leave home following intimidation fears

A construction manager advised his wife to temporarily leave their home with their four young children when he realised he was being followed from work by protesters waving placards, the High Court was told yesterday.

Owen Peters told High Court president, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, he was driving along the M4 at 100kph when a car, driven by Pat Nevin, a sub-contractor who claimed he was short-changed on a works deal, pulled up alongside him in the fast lane.

He said the car was being driven in an aggressive manner and another man in the passenger seat waved an allegedly defamatory placard about a payment Nevin claimed was due to him.