Druidh, at the time I remember lots of accusations regarding what Neil had or had not done, but little in the way of hard fact to back it up, just the usual barrack room lawyers stirring things up and enjoying the resulting nastiness.
And I don’t remember anyone on the Sierra Cycling thread making the same type of personal, offensive comments regarding the owner or his wife.
I have no connection with Neil btw, but just remember being appalled that a group of adults could conduct themselves in such a way on a public forum.
Of course, that’s just my opinion.
If there were mitigating circumstances, perhaps it would have been better to either have made those public or sought legal redress at the time.