Murder victim Rhiana Moore and her accused killer Ze Selassie sent thousands of text messages to each other in the months before her death but she was also in frequent contact with another male.

Supreme Court heard evidence yesterday from Police intelligence officer Peter Benziger, who told Selassie's trial that 14-year-old Rhiana called or texted him 5,234 times in the four months from June to October 2007.

Selassie, now aged 33, called or texted her 5,059 times over the same period.

In the seven months prior to her death at the end of May 2008, Rhiana made a total 5,842 contacts with Selassie by cell phone or text. In the three weekends leading up to her murder, she was in contact with him some 60 to 80 times per weekend, beginning at 6.30 a.m and ending around 10 p.m., the court heard.

Both the victim and the accused were shown to be prolific phone users by Mr. Benziger's data.

The records showed that each of their cell phones made or received around 96,000 calls and texts in general in the year before Rhiana's death.

Both were with the Digicel network, with Rhiana's mother Juliann Moore responsible for her bills.

However, under cross examination from defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher, Mr. Benziger agreed that Selassie's was not the number that Rhiana called and texted the most in the seven months leading up to her death.

She made 6,849 calls and texts over that period to a cell phone with a number ending with the digits 629, and a further 1,879 calls and texts to a cell phone number ending 626.

According to defence lawyer John Perry QC, both these phones belonged to another male that Rhiana was in frequent contact with. They were local numbers registered in Bermuda.

Under cross-examination from Mr. Perry yesterday, the officer leading the murder investigation told the jury this male made a witness statement and completed a Police interview under caution during the investigation.

However, Detective Constable Peter Stableford refuted the defence lawyer's suggestion that the person was considered to be a suspect, telling the court: "There was only one suspect in this murder. The one suspect was the defendant Ze Menefeskiduse Selassie."

Neither Mr. Perry nor the detective named the other male during yesterday's court proceedings, referring to him only by the last three digits of his phone numbers.

Mr. Perry asked whether the person was in Bermuda in May 2008, but Det. Con. Stableford replied that he did not know.

However, quizzed about the person's hours of work, the officer confirmed he was not at work on the night of May 30 the evening Rhiana went missing.

According to prosecutors, Selassie murdered Rhiana with premeditation that night after she left a church youth group.

Her body was found in the water at a nature reserve in Hamilton Parish the next morning.

The jury has heard that Rhiana and Selassie were in a sexual relationship leading to Rhiana's pregnancy with Selassie's child.

In a series of text messages between the pair read to the court by Det Con Stableford on Friday, both indicated that they did not want the child.

Rhiana was around seven months pregnant at the time of her death.

Her mother told the jury earlier in the trial that she was unaware of the relationship and pregnancy.

Yesterday, at the invitation of Mr. Perry, the detective read text messages between Rhiana and the other male.

She sent a number of messages to this person on May 28 2008, urging him to visit her at her home in Devonshire.

"Can you just come see me next week or today. I don't feel like going nowhere because my stomach and back hurts," she wrote.

Follow-up messages apparently sent because the male was not replying read "baby, why are you not talking" and "come see me now".

The male replied: "I don't really have anything to say to you right now, sorry."

Rhiana sent further messages urging him to talk to her and telling him she needed him. At one point she wrote: "All I need is someone to show me that they love me and show me that they care when I'm upset like now".

He replied that he had been there for her on other occasions but "I told you I was getting tired but you didn't want to listen."

Rhiana insisted that she needed him, and continued to send messages, including one saying: "I know I made mistakes and wrong decisions in the past but I plan to fix it because I don't want to lose another guy that I love very much."

The male replied to further messages with: "I don't know, I think I've had enough."

Rhiana replied: "No no baby, don't say that please, just say yes and I promise I will keep you happy for a long time. I will be your slave if you want me too."

The male replied on more than one occasion with: "Mmm, I hear you."

Rhiana's messages to him continued from 7.20 a.m. the following day, May 29, although he did not reply.

She sent a series of 11 simply stating "hey," over a two hour period in the afternoon. At 9.20 p.m she wrote: "Mmm been having nice dreams about you lately, that must be a sign that we're gonna work out, even if you're mad at me now, cos I know deep down that you still have love for me.

"I'm reading some of the messages that you sent me before, and it's making me happy but sad at the same time."

Detective Constable Stableford said the last text the male sent back to Rhiana was at 11.02 p.m. on May 28 and there were no more from him after that.

The last message read: "Mmm, I hear you."

Prosecutor Cindy Clarke closed the case for the Crown at the conclusion of yesterday's evidence.

Selassie denies premeditated murder, and the case continues.