ex-girlfriend against her will, was capable of firing darts and lead pellets.

Fire arms expert P.c. Stewart Kirkpatrick made the revelation during the Magistrates' Court trial of part time truck driver Omar Cann Smith.

Smith, 30, Valley Heights Road, Devonshire, has denied depriving the liberty of Rashida Ming on the evening of December 28 last year.

Smith and Ms Ming, who is the mother of his two-year-old son, reportedly had "an on-off relationship'' at the time of the alleged incident.

He has also pleaded not guilty to possessing an offensive weapon -- a Samurai sword -- but did admit to being the owner of a BB air gun found in the bedroom of his home by Police after they carried out a search of the property a day after the alleged incident.

Yesterday, P.c. Kirkpatrick told the court that, in his opinion, the air gun was a prohibited weapon under the Firearms Act.

He said that the gun was in good working condition when he examined it on January 28 and during firing tests the gun propelled ball bearings an average of 30 meters.

P.c. Kirkpatrick also said the air gun outwardly resembled a number of semi automatic pistols, like those made by Colt.

During cross examination by Smith's lawyer Philip Perinchief, P.c. Kirkpatrick ranked the air gun at one, on a "lethal'' scale of one-to-ten.

"That is an ambiguous question,'' P.c. Kirkpatrick said. "It all depends on where an individual is hit with a projectile.

"I know of numerous occasions where people have been hit with lethal weapons and not die and people dying from being hit by an air pistol.'' But he added that he could not think of a local example of someone dying from an air pistol injury.

Earlier in the trial Police testimony focused on Smith's interview with officers.

Smith reportedly said that, after picking Ms Ming up from a friend's house on the day of the abduction, they went for a drive. They had stopped on a dirt track and had an argument because "he was vexed''.

He denied threatening Ms Ming with a Samurai sword, which he was carrying at the time.

Smith told Police that the couple returned to his house where they spent the night and most of the next day sleeping.

The case continues today before Magistrate Edward King.