A carpet fitter has told the Catherine Nevin trial that Mrs Nevin told him she was going to, as he put it, "do her husband or have him done". Donnacha Long claimed this conversation took place at Jack White's Inn the week immediately before the murder of Tom Nevin. He also said that Mrs Nevin told him that her husband drank a lot and that he was having a homosexual relationship with a barman. Defence Counsel Paddy McEntee told Mr Long that Mrs Nevin had instructed him that no conversation remotely like what he had told the court had ever taken place. Mr Long replied that it did, and he could not account for what Mrs Nevin was saying.
Earlier, a niece of Tom Nevin's told the court that in August 1995 Catherine Nevin told her that she and her husband were "splitting up". Anne Marie Finnerty told the jury Mrs Nevin also told her they were thinking of selling the business and it could be sold by Christmas. When Defence Counsel Patrick McEntee put in to her that this conversation never happened, Ms Finnerty insisted it did. She said that, at a months mind mass sometime later, her mother asked Mrs Nevin about it and she replied, " we cleared that up".
In other evidence a Garda Sergeant said that two weeks before Tom Nevin's murder he had watched for his car on the N11 road to see if anyone was following him. Sargent Pat Carroll said he did this after a chat with ex inspector Tom Kennedy. The Sergeant said he had been given to believe that Tom Nevin had complained that he had been followed form Dublin to Jack White's Inn on Monday nights. Sgt Carroll never spoke to Tom Nevin about this and he did not see anyone following him. However a County Meath man who was a customer at Jack White's Inn on March 8th 1996 said that Mrs Nevin told him Tom Nevin had been followed. Tom Nevin agreed adding that he was worried because he had had a good deal of stuff from the cash and carry in the boot and that the car had stayed with him when he increased or reduced his speed.
