The Cooper twins? previous convictions have been outlined in court, on the day the prosecution closed its case against two men accused of their murder.

Jahmal appeared in court on nine occasions for a range of offences between 2002 and 2004 including assaulting a Police officer, carrying a samurai sword, possession of cocaine and unlawful wounding, the court was told. He was handed a three-month jail term in March 2004 for possessing the sword in Pembroke Parish.

Jahmil appeared in court three times, between 1997 and 2002, the trial heard yesterday. He assaulted a Police officer in February, 2002, and was given two years? probation for supplying cannabis in Pembroke Parish in May 1997, when he was aged 12.

The list of past offences were read by the prosecution before it closed its case against Kenneth Jermaine Burgess and Dennis Alma Robinson yesterday afternoon.

Over the last 12 days detectives, medical and scientific experts and two eyewitnesses have given evidence in the high-profile trial.

The jury has heard how Burgess launched a vicious attack with an aluminium baseball bat on the 20-year-old twins at a ground floor apartment at Crown Hill Lane, Devonshire, in the early hours of March 13. The brothers were last seen alive on that date, the court has been told. Their decomposing bodies were recovered from Abbot?s Cliff on April 13.

The court also heard details yesterday how Burgess? father, Kenneth Burgess Sr., reported being robbed in June 2003 by four people who stole $2,500 from him.

Police arrived at the scene of the robbery in Crown Hill Lane, Devonshire, at 3.30 a.m. and noticed a bruise on the side of the victim?s head. Several items were seized from the scene, Crown counsel Cindy Clarke told the jury, and they included a silver, short metal baseball bat. A Suzuki motorcycle, a black crash helmet and a green and white scarf were also recovered.

One eyewitness has already told the trial that during the alleged assault in the downstairs apartment last March, he heard Jahmal ask why he was being attacked and denying robbing Burgess? ?old man?.

An American secret service agent gave evidence in the trial earlier yesterday.

Daniel Levecchi, a Washington-based image specialist, told how he received a video tape from Bermuda Police. It contained security footage from a camera at a Bank of Butterfield cash machine at Four Star Pizza, Flatts.

The jury was shown six photographs, frames pulled from the security tape before Mr. Levecchi enhanced the images, that the prosecution said showed a white van in the early hours of March 13 last year. William Cashin, an IT expert at the bank, said the time shown on the security film was directly linked to the internal cash machine clock, which was regularly updated.

Under cross-examination from Charles Richardson, for Robinson, Mr. Levecchi was unable to say what type of vehicle was in the pictures, what the registration number was or who was driving. Mr. Richardson said the images did not tell the jury anything ?meaningful?.

The trial has already heard eyewitness Gladwyn Cann claim he saw Robinson in a white van in the early hours of March 13, after the alleged attack in the ground floor flat.

Det. Insp. Jerome Laws, who led the early stages of the investigation into the twins? disappearance, also took to the witness stand.

Under cross-examination from Courtenay Griffiths QC, for Burgess, Det. Insp. Laws was asked about information received from an emergency physician at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. A letter from Dr. Ash Syed said Mr. Burgess? two-year-old child was examined and treated at the hospital in the early hours of March 13, 2005.

The trial has already heard how Burgess told detectives he was never at the scene of the alleged assault on the twins, and took a call from his wife at about 4.30 a.m. about the health of his son on the night the twins were last seen alive before he went to the hospital.

The court yesterday also saw two pictures taken from CCTV footage from a shopping centre on Victoria Street, Hamilton, that Mr. Griffiths said showed Burgess shopping there at about 2.17 p.m. on March 13.

Charles Richardson, cross-examining Det. Con. Laws on the Flatts footage, said the vehicle captured on the security film could have been heading to a ?multitude? of destinations.

Det. Insp. Laws said he could not pick out the registration number, or who was driving. He said it looked like a Mitsubishi vehicle. Mr. Richardson told him there were 165 such vehicles in Bermuda.

Burgess, 34, of Hamilton Parish, and Robinson, 33, of Southampton, both deny murdering the twins on March 13, last year.

The high security trial, now in its third week, continues.