A witness described before the Supreme Court how a man accused of murdering Jevon Daniels in 2016 asked her about the police investigation in the wake of his disappearance.

Stevonna Wales said she had grown concerned for the safety of Mr Daniels, the father of her son, after he abruptly stopped responding to messages.

The jury heard how on May 15, having still received no response from Mr Daniels, she contacted his mother and launched a search through Somerset.

Ms Wales told the court: “I walked the Railway Trail both ways, leading towards Somerset Bridge and towards Dockyard. I walked up by 9 Beaches, I walked by Charing Cross, really just looking everywhere.”

She said that, on May 18, she had asked Davin Providence, whose apartment Mr Daniels had been sharing, when he last saw him.

“He said he saw him on Monday. He said he gave him a pillow and a blanket and told him not to come back.”

Ms Wales added that, days later, Mr Providence had come to her home, telling her that he needed a phone because the police had taken his.

She said she gave Mr Providence her son’s phone.

She told the court that Mr Providence later questioned her about the police investigation into the whereabouts of Mr Daniels.

Ms Wales said: “There were a couple of times where he would ask me what the police were saying.

“A few times I had seen him hanging around my driveway and the neighbours’ yard. I went down to him and asked if he was cool and that’s when he started to question me.”

Asked if Mr Providence had assisted her in the search for Mr Daniels, she said he had not.

Under cross-examination by Charles Richards, counsel for Mr Providence, Ms Wales described Mr Daniels as a good person, but accepted that he had a temper.

Mr Providence has denied allegations that he murdered Mr Daniels on an unknown date between May 13 and July 17, 2016.

The court previously heard that Mr Daniels had been dropped off near the Railway Trail on the afternoon of May 13 that year, and that his last known telephone communication was a call to Mr Providence that same evening.

The following morning, Mr Providence’s SIM card was moved to Mr Daniels’s phone, Mr Daniels’s photographs were deleted from the device and social media accounts linked to Mr Providence were added.

In a police interview recorded on July 25 that year, days after Mr Daniels’s body was found, Mr Providence told officers he had last seen Mr Daniels in the early hours of May 16.

He said that Mr Daniels had woken him up banging and cursing at his door, and that he had sent him away with a pillow and a blanket.

Asked about his phones, he said he had purchased one in March, while he bought the second device on May 14 from a drug addict named “Gary” for $20.

Noel Simons told the court that on July 17, 2016, he had gone to Ireland Rangers football grounds in Sandys to fly kites.

He said he arrived at a wooded area to attach a hummer when he caught wind of a foul odour.

Mr Simons said: “It wasn’t a fishy smelly. I didn’t know what it was. It was horrible.”

He described noticing trash bags wrapped in blue tape 50 to 75ft away. He approached and saw a large number of flies.

Mr Simons said that he called the Somerset Police Station and then put up his kite, adding: “I knew it would take a little time.”

When police arrived, an officer approached and asked if he had scissors or a knife he could use to open the bags.

Mr Simons said: “I handed him my utility knife. I told him if it’s a body, I don’t want it back. He came back and confirmed it was a body.”

Asked in cross-examination if he had mentioned the discovery to anyone, he said he had informed his wife, adding: “If there’s anybody you tell, it’s got to be your wife.”

The trial continues.

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