A man accused of the murder of Lorenzo Stovell confessed to the crime months after Mr Stovell was shot dead, a jury has been told.

Travonne Saltus is alleged to have told Troy Harris that he pulled the trigger when Mr Stovell was killed as he sat on a parked minibus on September 23, 2012.

Yesterday, jurors watched recorded police interviews with Harris in which he claimed that Mr Saltus had told him he had shot dead Mr Stovell.

The Supreme Court heard that Harris was initially spoken to by police on November 27, 2015, in relation to Mr Stovell’s murder; the day after he had been arrested on suspicion of assaulting the mother of his child.

Detectives then travelled to the UK in June 2016 where they interviewed Harris at a prison in Birmingham where he was being held for another attack on a woman.

In the second video interview, Harris reiterated his claim that Mr Saltus had confessed to him in May 2013 that he had murdered Mr Stovell.

He also maintained that he was prepared to come back to Bermuda and give evidence before the Supreme Court.

“Yes, I just need my transportation and I will be there,” he said.

At the end of the interview Harris said: “I just want to make things right.”

Detective Inspector Michael Redfern told the court that police had done all they could to get Harris to Bermuda, but authorities at the prison in Birmingham refused to let him out.

Mr Saltus and Zikai Cann are accused of murdering Mr Stovell as he sat in a parked bus across from Woody’s in Sandys in September 2012.

Prosecutors say that the two men were part of a group of men that descended on the bus before Mr Stovell was shot and killed.

A third defendant Cordova Simons-Marshall is alleged to have been involved with hiding the murder weapon after the shooting.

The jury has previously been told that all three defendants belonged to the West End Money Over B**ches gang.

Mr Cann, 27, and Mr Saltus, 28, both deny murder and using a firearm to commit murder.

Mr Simons-Marshall, 26, denies handling a 9mm Smith and Wesson autoloading pistol and being an accessory after the murder by concealing the gun.

The case continues.

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