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11-13-2007, 09:28 AM
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COURT CASE: Nicole Kidman and, inset, photographer Jamie Fawcett.
Oscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman screamed and feared for her life during an incident involving a Sydney paparazzo, a judge has been told.
Giving evidence in the NSW Supreme Court, John Manning said he was driving Kidman to her parents' Sydney home on January 23, 2005.
He said their car was followed by a jeep driven by photographer Jamie Fawcett.
Mr Manning said he had to swerve his car at one stage when Mr Fawcett's car drove over a median strip.
He said Ms Kidman was "screaming" and saying things like: "This has to stop. Call the police".
"She was fearing for her life and she said someone is going to get killed," he told the court.
He was giving evidence at a defamation hearing Mr Fawcett brought over an article published in Sun Herald newspaper in January 2005.
A jury has already found the article defamed Mr Fawcett, and Justice Carolyn Simpson is now considering any defences brought forward by the paper's publishers John Fairfax.
Manning was called to give evidence by Fairfax.
Justice Simpson was told Ms Kidman may be available to give evidence next Monday.
In September last year, a jury found Mr Fawcett had been defamed in the Sun-Herald article which conveyed the meaning that he was "Sydney's most disliked freelance photographer".
Other defamatory meanings found by the jury included that the photographer had placed a listening device, intending to intercept Ms Kidman's private conversations, and that he had caused "havoc" in her private life.
The hearing is continuing.
AAP
COURT CASE: Nicole Kidman and, inset, photographer Jamie Fawcett.
Oscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman screamed and feared for her life during an incident involving a Sydney paparazzo, a judge has been told.
Giving evidence in the NSW Supreme Court, John Manning said he was driving Kidman to her parents' Sydney home on January 23, 2005.
He said their car was followed by a jeep driven by photographer Jamie Fawcett.
Mr Manning said he had to swerve his car at one stage when Mr Fawcett's car drove over a median strip.
He said Ms Kidman was "screaming" and saying things like: "This has to stop. Call the police".
"She was fearing for her life and she said someone is going to get killed," he told the court.
He was giving evidence at a defamation hearing Mr Fawcett brought over an article published in Sun Herald newspaper in January 2005.
A jury has already found the article defamed Mr Fawcett, and Justice Carolyn Simpson is now considering any defences brought forward by the paper's publishers John Fairfax.
Manning was called to give evidence by Fairfax.
Justice Simpson was told Ms Kidman may be available to give evidence next Monday.
In September last year, a jury found Mr Fawcett had been defamed in the Sun-Herald article which conveyed the meaning that he was "Sydney's most disliked freelance photographer".
Other defamatory meanings found by the jury included that the photographer had placed a listening device, intending to intercept Ms Kidman's private conversations, and that he had caused "havoc" in her private life.
The hearing is continuing.
AAP