screaming as he tried to rape her.

And that was when he put a pillow over her face and suffocated her.

The horrifying news came in Supreme Court yesterday as Police officers read out statements recorded from, and signed by, Williams after he was arrested on September 29, 1995.

Mrs. Parker had been found dead in her home two days earlier by her next door neighbour, Edwin Faries.

Williams, 25, of Ord Road, Paget has pleaded not guilty to murdering the bed-ridden woman -- who suffered from severe arthritis -- on September 27.

During the trial, Puisne Judge Norma Wade had to ask Williams -- who sat in the dock with his head bowed -- to keep his head up so the jury could see him.

In the Police statements read out in court, Williams said he left the Spinning Wheel night club on his pedal cycle after he had been drinking and went looking for a house to break into.

He said he entered Mrs. Parker's house -- which he had never been to before -- through an open rear window and began searching for money in the dark.

Williams told Police that his search took him to Mrs. Parker's bedroom where he saw her asleep on the bed.

In an earlier statement, he stressed that he did not rape the sleeping woman, but he later told Police that he could not find any money so he tried to have intercourse with her, which was when she woke up and began to scream.

He grabbed a nearby pillow and held it over her face for a few minutes until she stopped moving.

Williams said he then fled from the house and rode home on his bike.

He told Police: "It happened real fast. I don't care what anyone thinks. I didn't mean to kill her.'' Williams later returned to the residence with officers and retraced his steps from the night he murdered Mrs. Parker.

Under cross examination by Mark Pettingill, representing Williams, Det. Sgt.

Andrew Boyce said Williams began crying at times and often gave mumbled and vague answers when asked about the murder.

However other officers who appeared in court to give testimony said they could not recall Williams crying or acting particularly strange.

Sole defence witness, ex-consultant psychiatrist at St. Brendan's Hospital, Gavin Tennant told the court he had seen Williams on two occasions after the murder and also met with his mother.

And in his medical opinion, he said the overall picture, combined with the bizarre elements of the crime, led him to believe Williams fit the bill of diminished responsibility.

In his opinion, continued Dr. Tennant, Williams was on the borderline between being an odd person and having a formal mental illness.

But there were not sufficient features to categorise him as mentally ill, he added, although it would not surprise him if his mental illness developed some day.

This illness would fully develop through his suffering at birth, his low intelligence, environmental circumstances and apparent bizarre behaviour.

He said tests showed Williams had borderline subnormal intelligence but no significant abnormalities such as tumours or epilepsy.

Dr. Tennant said there were times when Williams was out of touch with reality while there were other times that he was more lucid but still dysfunctional.

Williams had told him that angels and devils tried to influence his thinking and that he had seen Jah who spoke to him.

Williams' background and development showed he had grown bitter to life which he felt had been unkind to him since he was born.

He was described by his mother as the oldest of five children who brought himself up and was never treated as well as his siblings were.

Dr. Tennant said Williams' father -- who never married his mother -- had a drug problem and was in frequent trouble with the law.

When his mother got married, Williams refused to attend the wedding and his closest family friend became his uncle, a Rastafarian, but they had recently fallen out.

Williams had originally grown dreadlocks for fashion but later began to follow the faith in his own way.

Williams `out of touch' Williams' mother said his birth had been difficult, he was born with a misshapen head and as a child he was fretful and colicky.

Dr. Tennant said Williams struggled through school until he was 15 when a girl slapped him while they were on a school bus and Williams left school and did not return.

Since that time Williams had few friends, no regular girlfriend and bore a grudge against women in general, which Dr. Tennant said was compounded later on by an unpleasant sexual experience.

This social withdrawal, continued Dr. Tennant, was not uncommon with the development of mental illness.

The case continues today. Attorney General Elliott Mottley appears for the Crown.