By Lloyd Burr
The widow of murdered Feilding man Scott Guy is again on the stand at the trial of his accused killer.
Kylee Guy broke down in tears immediately as she answered the first question, recalling the first time she met the man she would later marry.
Mr Guy was gunned down at the end of his Aorangi Rd driveway on July 8 2010. His brother-in-law Ewen Macdonald is charged with his murder and is on trial at the High Court in Wellington.
Ms Guy is on the stand discussing the relationship her husband had with Macdonald.
She says Mr Guy was upset when Macdonald and his wife Anna - Mr Guy's sister - were given the old family home in a deal with parents Joanne and Bryan Guy.
The family accountant was angry her and Mr Guy were not offered the same financial package from the parents, she told the court.
But she says Mr Guy wanted to pay his own way and would never put his hand out or be greedy.
"Finding out [Jo and Bryan] had helped Anna and Ewen, knowing we were struggling, was hard," she says.
"He was a real softy and didn’t want to upset anyone.”
Wife tells of altercation
Ms Guy recalled a run-in between Mr Guy and Macdonald at a function at Nikki and Joanne Guy’s fashion shop Revé.
She says all the family were looking forward to it and Mr Guy had left work early to be there.
Macdonald came up to Scott at the function, “had a go at him”, and forced them to leave, Ms Guy says.
“Scott was upset that Ewen talked to him like that. He had a go at him for leaving [work] early. He just wanted to be there for his mother,” she says.
She agreed with defence lawyer Greg King that the incident was “sad and inappropriate”.
‘Everyone wanted to be boss’
Mr Guy’s father also spoke in court this morning. He says everyone on the Guy family farm wanted to be the boss.
Bryan Guy says the farm was top heavy when his son came back to work permanently, and they had to restructure.
“Everyone wanted to be boss…so we had to make a new role for Scotty when he came back,” he says.
The new role was manager of dry stock and cropping, with Macdonald made the manager of the farm’s dairy operation.
Bryan Guy recalled last week that farmhand Simon Asplin wanted to be assistant manager but he declined him as the farm would be “top heavy”.
He also told the court of an unexpected moment when his son told him he wanted to inherit the farm.
“It struck us by surprise; he had been watching too much TV or something,” he says.
“It certainly wasn’t the expectation Jo and I had so we had a frank discussion with him.”
Bryan Guy purchased the farm from his parents when they retired and he told Mr Guy he had to do the same, the court heard.
“It wasn’t something we had inherited and none of the children were going to inherit any more than the others,” he says.
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