Ex-soldier Michael Fox faces intimidation charges after 'turning' on mate's attacker MICHAEL Fox was about to be the star witness for a bloody bikie murder in which he was nearly gunned down. But in August last year, just before the start of the trial for Kevin Gall, who shot dead Fox's friend Neil Green in 2010, the ex-soldier allegedly turned on his attacker's family. Today the 40-year-old, who leapt to notoriety in 2011 when he scaled the Sydney Harbour Bridge in protest, faced Downing Centre Local Court accused of intimidating Gall's brother Gary and mother Louise in front of two court officers. The pair was standing outside the Darlinghurst Supreme Court complex in August as they waited for Gall and his father Bruce to stand trial over the killing of Mr Green, a Nomads bikie. Gary Gall today said he was standing near the court's toilets when Fox approached him looking angry and "snarling." "He said to me, as he got about one metre away from us, `what the f... are you looking at, you're going to get it next,"" he said. When Mr Gall asked what he was "going to get," Fox allegedly made a gun with his fingers and gestured as if cocking the "weapon" above his head. Mr Gall said he thought the sign meant he would be shot next. But Fox's lawyer Brett Galloway described the allegations as an unprecedented "farce." "I've never seen, in 30 years of practicing law, the principle Crown witness in a murder trial being charged with intimidation," he said. Fox has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was with Mr Green when he went to confront Kevin Gall over a property dispute. Gall opened fire and hit Mr Green at least three times before turning his weapon on Fox, who escaped by leaping a fence and running away. The shooter was later sentenced to at least 24 years in prison over the attack, while his father Bruce was jailed for at least four years for being an accessory to the crime and other offences. Gary Gall yesterday said the shooting came about because Mr Green and Fox bailed up his father in a "home invasion" and he blamed them for his family's "predicament." But he denied trying to provoke Fox's "somewhat volatile" personality before the trial in an attempt to influence his evidence and help clear his brother and father. The hearing continues in June.