Rhiana Moore's Police officer godfather helped pull her body from the water after her murder and then identified her as the victim.

Ralph Furbert was told around noon on May 31 2008 that a corpse had been found in a mangrove swamp at Blue Hole Hill Park.

"I went to the area and saw the body of a young lady in the water from a distance," he told Supreme Court yesterday. "I went closer. I assisted in taking her out of the water on to dry land.

"I had on a forensic body suit. I identified the body to the officers at the scene as Rhiana."

Mr. Furbert did not explain whether he was aware that the body was his 14-year-old goddaughter's prior to attending the scene, and was not questioned by lawyers about that.

However, he did tell the jury he knew the man accused of the killing, Ze Selassie, prior to the incident.

Selassie, 33, is on trial accused of carrying out the premeditated murder of Rhiana, who was around seven months pregnant and had been stabbed at least 18 times.

Prosecutors say Selassie and Rhiana were involved in a secret relationship leading up to her death, and she was between 27 and 30 weeks pregnant.

Mr. Furbert explained yesterday how he'd known of Ze Selassie for around ten years prior to the incident.

"I believe the last time I saw him was during a TV programme on one of the local channels, it might have been 2007 or 2008," he told the jury.

He went on to describe seeing Selassie in Mary Victoria Road, Devonshire, on May 14 2008 16 days before Rhiana went missing. Mr. Furbert lived on that road, as did Rhiana and her family in a separate house.

He explained he was on his lunch break around noon that day when he saw Selassie pass his front yard hedge, and recognised his face. Mr. Furbert is now retired from the Police.

The murder trial, which has been sitting in Supreme Court Three on Front Street, had to move up the hill to Supreme Court One in Sessions House yesterday afternoon to accommodate the needs of a further prosecution witness.

Jerome Pitcher, a neighbour of Selassie's from Battery Road, St. David's, is wheelchair-bound and the old Supreme Court Three building has steep steps impossible for a wheelchair user to navigate.

The alternative venue has a ramp and lift available to physically-challenged visitors.

Mr. Pitcher told the jury how he lives in a cottage adjacent to the Selassie family home, and saw Selassie heading out in his car on the evening on Friday May 30 last year.

He saw him come home again just before daybreak the next morning, which he estimated to be around 5.30 a.m. Mr. Pitcher said he did not see the car move again until he left his own home to go shopping around 9.30 a.m that morning.

Prosecutors say Selassie's movements and behaviour on Friday May 30 should lead the jury to conclude that he's responsible for the killing "on or about" that date.

He is said by the Crown to have gone to Hamilton around 7.15 a.m. the next morning to get mud washed off his car, then gone to Tynes Bay Incinerator around 8.39 a.m. to dump a trash bag.

Quizzed yesterday by defence lawyer John Perry QC, Mr. Pitcher insisted he did not see Selassie's car leave his home around 7 a.m. on May 31, telling the court: "I'm not wrong. I'm not blind either."

Selassie denies premeditated murder and the case continues.