A MAN rumoured to have stolen diesel and a chainsaw from a logging coupe confronted his accuser with an axe and later fired a shot in his direction from a high-powered rifle, the Supreme Court has heard.
Fabian Shane Graham, 29, of Swamp Road, Lachlan, pleaded not guilty to assault and two counts of aggravated assault.
The opening day of his trial today heard that in September last year Graham asked his friend Tyler Burchill if he had any 44 gallon drums because he was planning to "milk some diesel" from a Styx Valley logging depot.
When the depot was robbed a couple of days later, Mr Burchill recounted the conversation to Les Walkden Enterprises harvesting supervisor Andrew Clark.
Crown Prosecutor Heather Mannering said that on October 23 last year, Mr Clark went to Graham's house to inquire after the 1500 litres of diesel and a chainsaw and radio that were taken, but he wasn't home.
Graham turned up at the Walkden depot at New Norfolk a few hours later.
"Fabian jumped out of his vehicle with an axe," Mr Clark told the court.
"I walked back into the office. He was yelling at me: 'Why did you accuse me of stealing the diesel? I'm going to cut you into little pieces and come back and shoot all your employees'," he said.
Mr Clark told the court that a few hours after Graham left, he and tree feller Dale Robert Booth went to Graham's house.
"We just wanted to talk to him about it," he said.
They found Graham near his house, had a short conversation and followed his vehicle. Mr Clark said that as they headed up Graham's driveway in their car, he had a "funny feeling".
"That's when I saw Fabian come out of the house holding a gun. I started to reverse down the driveway. When I took off I heard a shot."
He denied threatening or confronting Graham before the shot was fired.
The case, before Justice Alan Blow, is continuing.
Read more in tomorrow's Mercury.
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