John Magnier threatened ‘litigation for years’ amid row over sale of Barne Estate, court told
Irish businessman John Magnier arriving at the High Court in Dublin. Photo: Collins CourtsThe wife of a man being sued by John Magnier over the purported sale of a Co Tipperary estate has told the High Court that the bloodstock billionaire allegedly threatened that the sale of the property to anyone else would put the defendants in “litigation for years" and "cost millions”.Anna Thomson-Moore, the wife of defendant Richard Thomson-Moore, has told the High Court that the family had to take out a commercial loan in order to fight the case taken by Mr Magnier over the collapse of the alleged deal for the land.
