“We didn’t have a burning desire to leave Ireland,” Anna Thomson-Moore told the court, as she took the stand at 4 pm on Thursday, the first main defence witness in the long-running Barne Estate row. A solicitor by profession, having qualified in Australia and practiced in London, the court heard she met her husband Richard Thomson-Moore in 2015. He, along with his sister Alex, is the beneficial owner of the Barne Estate, held in trust. As a lawyer specialising in trusts and probate, she explained how she had helped him in arranging the discharge of a £750,000 debt to HSBC…

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