Exactly what drove Kenneth Burgess to murder Jahmal and Jahmil Cooper in such cold-blooded fashion may never be fully explained.

The man who made a living gambling probably thought he stacked the odds in his favour by covering his tracks after beating the brothers with a baseball bat in a ground floor apartment at his Crown View Lane complex.

The murder trial heard walls were washed down 24 hours after the assault, which an eyewitness said had sent blood spraying all over the apartment when it occurred.

But, with Burgess in custody, tiny specks of blood remained in the property.

And when Police forensic officers combed the site a few days after the attack, they were able to locate these tiny red traces on a window, a bathroom tile, stepladders and outside the door.

DNA tests later revealed Jahmal Cooper?s blood in the flat ? and this helped point the finger of blame squarely at Burgess and the man who the jury agreed helped him, Dennis Robinson.

Another Burgess blunder appears to be his decision to dump the twins? bodies over Abbot?s Cliff.

Who knows why he opted for the remote spot ? minutes away from his family home at Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish ? as a suitable location, especially when disposing of the bodies in the ocean would have made chances of recovery much more unlikely.

Sources suggest the murderers may have thought they had dropped them into the sea, but the bodies got caught in trees and undergrowth in a ledge not visible from the top.

Burgess? QC, Courtenay Griffiths described his client as ?educated? and ?articulate?, painting the picture of a rational and controlled man not stupid enough to kill on his own doorstep.

But prosecutors claimed Burgess may have suffered a ?moment of stupidity? when he murdered the twins in his own property.

Perhaps he only intended to injure them and teach them a lesson for allegedly robbing his father two years earlier. But events spiralled violently out of control and maybe, once Jahmal was killed, panic-stricken Burgess felt he had to finish off Jahmil as well.

The month-long trial did provide a few clues about the man driven to commit brutal double murder.

Prosecutors said Burgess alone carried out the brutal baseball bat attack that killed the twins.

Burgess, however, said on the night in question he never even went to the flat where Jahmal?s blood was found splattered on various items. He said he had been gambling ?and losing?. He continued to bet even when his wife called and told him his son was sick and needed hospital treatment.

In one last throw of the dice, the betting man whose imposing physique was compared to an American footballer, took to the witness stand in a bid to clear his name.

There the quiet, but well-spoken defendant was confronted by hours of questioning from prosecutors, keen for the jury to hear more about a key location in the twins murder ? his illegal Elliott Street gambling den, and the shadowy underworld that surrounded it, inhabited by the twins, their friends and the defendants.

Burgess, 34, appears to have fingers in various moneymaking ventures across the Island. Dressed in a sharp suit, he told the court he had a construction company, drove a taxi and ran his father?s estate, which included collecting rents and renovating apartments like the three-building Crown Hill Lane complex, where the twins died.

His wife took the stand, however, and was far more direct. He gambled for a living, she told the jury.

Burgess admitted regular betting went on at the back of town site, regularly frequented by the infamous White Wall Crew gang that hung around nearby Curving Avenue.

The trial heard gang members included the Cooper twins and the two eyewitnesses, Gladwyn Cann and Devario Whitter, who saw the twins beaten, although Burgess pointed to the age difference between him and that quartet. He described them as more associates than friends.

But the four frequent visitors, who rarely gambled at the joint, were part of the group driven from Elliott Street to Crown Hill Lane by Burgess and Robinson in the early hours of March 13.

Rugby player Burgess calmly insisted Elliott Street was not a 24/7 operation, and revealed that a week after he was arrested in connection with the twins? murder, plans had been passed to transform the gambling joint into a fast food restaurant.

Burgess rented the gambling den from March 2004. Before that it had been let as an apartment.

Burgess was also asked a series of detailed questions about how much money the Elliott Street operation generated.

Amid a series of tense encounters, he told Senior Crown counsel Paula Tyndale that crown and anchor and spades were among games played. And Burgess, who told how he lost $200 gambling on the night the twins disappeared, admitted that the only purpose of crown and anchor was to earn an income and pay the rent. Prosecutors, however, suggested the venture was much more profitable.

The defendant?s private life was also thrust under the spotlight during the case. Burgess said he had been married to wife Dianne-Mae Burgess for five years, however, in that period he had an affair with Selena Matthie, who had his child in December, 2004.

Burgess? wife, who was a key plank of his defence as she outlined phone calls he claimed meant he was not at Crown Hill Lane at the time the twins died, appeared in the witness box during the trial. Ms Matthie was a regular figure in the public gallery, although she was not present when Mrs. Burgess made her one appearance in court.

Burgess admitted he and his wife were having difficulties last March and that he sometimes stayed away from their home at Cottage Hill Road, and slept at an upper apartment in Crown Hill Lane.

This proved crucial for the Prosecution, after Police recovered a bloodstained sports shirt with both Jahmal?s and Burgess? DNA on from that flat.

The Cooper twins jury was told Burgess had previous convictions for impersonating a Police officer and for using fake US dollars. He was given community service in America for the counterfeiting offence, and was fined $300 for pretending to be a cop after a traffic incident on Middle Road, Warwick, in 2004.

Burgess made light of the offence, saying he merely wanted to ?shake up? a woman driver who had pulled out in front of his vehicle and nearly caused an accident, but prosecutors said it was much more serious.