DNA evidence suggests that a jacket found with gunshot residue (GSR) on it after a shooting on Court Street was worn by the man accused of the crime, an expert told Supreme Court yesterday.

Anthony Swan is on trial facing accusations that he repeatedly shot at Raymond "Yankee" Rawlins in Court Street on the morning of December 16 last year.

Mr. Rawlins escaped injury.

The trial has heard that Swan was arrested after a Police chase a short time after the shooting, which ended when he crashed his motorcycle into a Police car.

A black jacket was found near his bike, and the jury heard on Monday that it was found to have a "high level" of GSR particles on it.

Yesterday, the case heard from Candy Zuleger, who runs a DNA laboratory in Florida. She explained that DNA is "the genetic blueprint that makes us all human. You obtain half from your father and half from your mother. Two persons do not have the same DNA unless they are identical twins."

Ms Zuleger swabbed the neck and cuffs of the black jacket, and explained this obtained DNA from skin cells that matched DNA from a mouth swab the Police took from Swan after his arrest.

She said there was DNA from two other people, who she could not identify, on the jacket, but Swan was the "major donor".

Ms Zuleger also told the court that the chances of the main source of the DNA on the jacket being anyone other than Swan are one in 480 trillion for the black Bermudian population and one in seven quadrillion for the white population.

She agreed with defence lawyer Marc Daniels that DNA can be transferred by means such as shaking hands or sweating.

Mr. Daniels also asked her if the fact that Swan's DNA was found on the jacket conclusively showed that he had worn it.

She replied: "Conclusively, no, but it is my assumption that is the person who wore it the last or wore it the most to have that amount of DNA on it."

And she added: "The best answer I can give you is that that is my assumption from swabbing the inside of the collar and the lapels because you would have to be wearing it to have that kind of DNA transfer."

Swan, 22, of Pembroke, denies a string of charges relating to the shooting, and the case continues.