A woman who told a jury she wanted to drop her intimidation allegation against a man out of fear for herself and her family agreed her statement to gardaí was correct.
The woman, who was the main prosecution witness in other proceedings against the accused man, told gardaí he told her that her son's days were numbered and made a gesture of a shotgun to his head.
Daniel Gaynor (20), Cherryfield Drive, Finglas, has denied at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he intimidated her in Jamestown Road, Finglas, on January 25th, 2001.
The woman agreed with Des Zaidan, prosecuting, that she told gardaí she was waiting at a bus stop with her granddaughter when Mr Gaynor approached her and shouted "tell your son his days are numbered", before he put his fingers to his temple in the shape of a gun.
She did not accept in cross-examination by Sandra Frayne, defending, that she was fabricating the whole thing because she had a "gripe" against Mr Gaynor.
"So I am just sitting here for the good of my health. I am stating the facts. That is what happened to me and I will never forgive him for what he did to me or my family," she told the jury.
Asked by Ms Frayne if she was so intimidated why did she still appear as a witness in the trial last year, she replied that both she and her family had been intimidated.
The trial continues before Judge Desmond Hogan and a jury.