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02-22-2006, 10:19 AM
A PASTOR wielding a pistol threatened to shoot a woman at the door of her farmhouse, a jury heard today.
Mrs Yvonne Neilson claimed Pastor Thomas Baird, 47, was wearing a balaclava when he turned up on her doorstep with three men, pointed a gun at her and her brother Robert, 37, and told them: "You're getting it."
The 42-year-old mum told the High Court in Glasgow she and her brother dropped to the ground in terror and crawled to the phone for help.
Describing how she felt, Mrs Neilson told prosecutor Hugh Irwin: "Shock, disbelief and fear."
She claimed she recognised the pastor by his voice and build, and when asked what she thought he was going to do she replied: "Shoot me."
Pastor Baird, of Hillbank Kennels, Galston Road, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, denies, while acting with others, assaulting Mrs Neilson and her brother Robert Lees on December 27, 2004, by presenting a handgun at them and threatening to shoot them.
He was the pastor of the Assemblies of God Pentecostal Church at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, at the time.
The incident is alleged to have happened late at night at Mrs Neilson's home in a converted farmhouse at Laigh Netherfield Farm, Stonehouse Road, Strathaven.
The jury heard the allegations were set against the background of a legal dispute between Mrs Neilson and Pastor Baird, who sold part of the converted farmhouse to her for £198,000,
The farmhouse had been divided into three parts, Mrs Neilson owning one part, Pastor Baird another and the third awaiting conversion.
Mrs Neilson told Mr Irwin that at first she was on friendly terms with Pastor Baird and his wife Elizabeth until she discovered he had not provided separate electricity and water supplies to all three units in the conversion.
She only found she was paying all the electricity and water for the three houses when she received a £1200 bill, which Mrs Baird paid, and then another one for £470.
Mrs Neilson told the court that she subsequently found herself in a house that was unsaleable.
Mrs Neilson claimed that in the build-up to the alleged gun incident her car was damaged and its tyres slashed.
An e-mail sent to the pastor's boss by Mrs Neilson was read out in court.
It asked him to discipline the pastor and said she was horrified he hadn't been suspended and devastated to know he was still preaching.
Mrs Neilson admitted that she had submitted an offer for the rest of the farmhouse, which had since been repossessed by the bank from Pastor Baird, but she denied a suggestion from Murray Macara, defending, that she "wanted the whole lot and wanted it cheap".
The trial before Lord Philip continues.
Link (http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5049199.html)
Wow....
Mrs Yvonne Neilson claimed Pastor Thomas Baird, 47, was wearing a balaclava when he turned up on her doorstep with three men, pointed a gun at her and her brother Robert, 37, and told them: "You're getting it."
The 42-year-old mum told the High Court in Glasgow she and her brother dropped to the ground in terror and crawled to the phone for help.
Describing how she felt, Mrs Neilson told prosecutor Hugh Irwin: "Shock, disbelief and fear."
She claimed she recognised the pastor by his voice and build, and when asked what she thought he was going to do she replied: "Shoot me."
Pastor Baird, of Hillbank Kennels, Galston Road, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, denies, while acting with others, assaulting Mrs Neilson and her brother Robert Lees on December 27, 2004, by presenting a handgun at them and threatening to shoot them.
He was the pastor of the Assemblies of God Pentecostal Church at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, at the time.
The incident is alleged to have happened late at night at Mrs Neilson's home in a converted farmhouse at Laigh Netherfield Farm, Stonehouse Road, Strathaven.
The jury heard the allegations were set against the background of a legal dispute between Mrs Neilson and Pastor Baird, who sold part of the converted farmhouse to her for £198,000,
The farmhouse had been divided into three parts, Mrs Neilson owning one part, Pastor Baird another and the third awaiting conversion.
Mrs Neilson told Mr Irwin that at first she was on friendly terms with Pastor Baird and his wife Elizabeth until she discovered he had not provided separate electricity and water supplies to all three units in the conversion.
She only found she was paying all the electricity and water for the three houses when she received a £1200 bill, which Mrs Baird paid, and then another one for £470.
Mrs Neilson told the court that she subsequently found herself in a house that was unsaleable.
Mrs Neilson claimed that in the build-up to the alleged gun incident her car was damaged and its tyres slashed.
An e-mail sent to the pastor's boss by Mrs Neilson was read out in court.
It asked him to discipline the pastor and said she was horrified he hadn't been suspended and devastated to know he was still preaching.
Mrs Neilson admitted that she had submitted an offer for the rest of the farmhouse, which had since been repossessed by the bank from Pastor Baird, but she denied a suggestion from Murray Macara, defending, that she "wanted the whole lot and wanted it cheap".
The trial before Lord Philip continues.
Link (http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5049199.html)
Wow....