Murder-accused Philip Bradshaw and Antoine Anderson went out dressed in black on the night Aquil Richardson was killed – and Anderson returned holding a ski mask.

That was the evidence to Supreme Court yesterday from Malika Gumbs, a friend of Tyeasha Anderson, who is Antoine Anderson's sister and Philip Bradshaw's wife.

Ms Gumbs claimed Antoine Anderson asked her to lie to the Police about his whereabouts on the night Mr. Richardson was shot dead, December 26 2007. She told the jury she became afraid for her life after he repeatedly contacted her, and the Police moved her and her children to another residence.

"The reason why is because I knew him to be a dangerous person," she explained.

Bradshaw, 26, nicknamed Akeem, and Anderson, 31, nicknamed Beezy, deny murdering Mr. Richardson, 30. They further deny wounding another man, Lavar Smith, who was shot and injured during the same incident.

According to prosecutors, the victims were with a group of men outside a house in Camp Hill, Southampton, when two men dressed in black arrived on a motorcycle between 8.30 pm and 9 p.m. The pillion passenger who is alleged to have had fur on the hood of his jacket – is said to have shot at the group before dismounting and shooting Mr. Richardson twice in the head while he was on the ground.

Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney told the opening of the trial on Monday that investigators found gunshot residue on a jacket worn by Bradshaw that night and on a pair of pants belonging to Anderson.

In her evidence to the trial yesterday, Ms Gumbs said she'd known Bradshaw's wife Tyeasha Anderson for ten years and spent Christmas Day 2007 at her Curving Avenue, Pembroke, home. Also present was Bradshaw, who Tyeasha had recently married in Jamaica.

Ms Gumbs explained that Tyeasha's brother from her mother's side is Antoine Anderson. Her brother from her father's side is Jakai Harford, who was injured in a separate shooting late on Christmas Day 2007.

The trial heard on Tuesday from Jerome Martin, who was with the group that got shot at, that the shootings were not linked and he did not view Aquil Richardson or Lavar Smith as suspects in the Harford shooting.

Ms Gumbs said she and her two children stayed overnight with Tyeasha Anderson and Bradshaw on Christmas Day and spent further time at their house on Boxing Day. She described how Antoine Anderson arrived around 5.30-6 p.m wearing a black jacket. Bradshaw later borrowed a black jacket she'd got as a Christmas present to ride on the back of Anderson's bike. Ms Gumbs described this as a bulky black jacket with fur on the hood.

According to her, the pair rode off with Anderson towing Bradshaw on a bike in the direction of St. Augustine Hill about 8 p.m. They returned together around 10pm-10.45p.m.

The women had heard news of Mr. Richardson's shooting while the men had been out. According to Ms Gumbs, Tyeasha Anderson asked them on their return: "Did you know that Aquil got shot?" and "she hoped that they had nothing to do with it."

Asked by prosecutor Mr. Mahoney what their reaction was, Ms Gumbs replied that "Akeem was just humble, to himself, nothing fazed him." However, she said Anderson "had a slight grin" and "it didn't matter to him, that's what I'm saying."

Referring to Antoine Anderson, she then told the court: "I noticed him having a ski mask in his hand. A black woolly type. It was not like he was trying to hide it, he was holding it and he was just looking at it."

Asked if Anderson said anything about the mask, Ms Gumbs replied: " No. At that time he was looking at that. He did say something at one point. He said if the Police come, tell them that I was here from seven to ten."

Ms Gumbs said the next time she spoke to Anderson was the end of January or start of February 2008 when he and Bradshaw arrived outside a nightclub as she was having a cigarette. She walked off as she did not want to be bothered but Bradshaw tapped her on the shoulder and asked her why she was going inside. Then, she said, Anderson told her she needed to "deal with" a friend of hers named Keisha. Anderson claimed that, according to Keisha, Ms Gumbs was saying he'd killed Mr. Richardson.

"He said I needed to deal with her before he did," she told the jury.

On February 14 she and a friend were walking along Curving Avenue when they passed Bradshaw and Anderson. She described seeing Anderson speak to her friend while she and Bradshaw discussed a mutual friend in Jamaica.

On February 19, she said, she conducted an interview with the Police, gave a statement, and handed over the jacket in question which she picked up when she returned to the Curving Avenue house on New Year's Eve.

Four days later, she told the court, she visited her grandmother in King Street when Anderson turned up and repeated something similar. "He had said to me if the Police come to me, tell them that he was at the house seven to ten and I will take care of you".

Ms Gumbs described Anderson's tone as "calm". When quizzed by the prosecutor about her own feelings, she replied: "I had a bit of mixed emotions at that time...I don't know how to put it. He wanted to take care of me and I didn't want to have to deal with this, I really didn't feel safe and I had already talked to the Police."

On February 26, Ms Gumbs said she was picked up by a Police car while she was in Hamilton, in relation to the case. Later that day, Ms Gumbs said she was told Anderson had turned up at her home to see her.

The following day, she told the jury, she started to receive phone calls from Anderson, with him telling her he needed to see her and asking her where she was. Although she was at home, Ms Gumbs said she lied because she did not want him to know where she was. She then called Police Detective Cheryl Beach "because I just felt that was the safest thing to do".

Detective Beach and another officer came to her home and took Ms Gumbs and her children somewhere else to stay. Ms Gumbs described how after that, Anderson kept calling and then started texting her, telling her to meet him, but she made excuses and told him she would call back.

She eventually called Anderson from Detective Beach's phone. The officer was there with another detective and recorded the conversation.

"He wanted to meet with me. That's all he kept stressing," said Ms Gumbs. After Anderson carried on calling back on her own phone, she turned it off. Asked by Mr. Mahoney how she felt at this time, she replied: "Scared for my life. Yeah. I was afraid."

The case continues.