Murder-accused Antonio Myers confessed to the crime to a friend and asked for help to destroy the evidence, Supreme Court heard.The friend, Edwin Darrell, 55, said Mr Myers later threatened him with a gun and warned him not to inform the police.Mr Myers, 25, from Rambling Lane, Pembroke, is on trial accused of shooting Kumi Harford, 30, from Mission Lane, Pembroke.Mr Harford was shot multiple times as he sat in his car on St Monica’s Road, aka 42nd Street, in Pembroke, around 5am on December 5, 2009.Recovering drug addict Mr Darrell said he’s known the accused man since he was a little boy. He said he is good friends with his father, who lives in Jamaica.He added that Mr Myers is his cousin, and also the cousin of his deceased wife.He said he used to see him in Middletown, Pembroke, five or six times per week prior to the incident in question.Mr Darrell explained he was living in a tent on Parsons Road, Pembroke at that time, and heard gunshots on the morning of the murder.He told the jury he left his tent to “take care of some business”, and encountered Mr Myers on Parsons Road.“He said he needed my help and I said ‘how?’. He said he just finished doing a job killing Kumi Harford up at 42nd and that he had some clothes for me to get rid of.“I stood in shock for a few minutes and then I said, ‘that’s a tall order. I don’t want any part of that’,” said Mr Darrell.“Then he asked me do I know of any way to get rid of some clothing. I told him there was some ways I know of. Some acid or you can burn them. He then asked me am I going to do it and I told him ‘no’. He was very irritated.”Mr Darrell said he left after speaking to Mr Myers for four to eight minutes and went to Curving Avenue, Pembroke, “to take care of some business”. After that, he went to Middletown where he would usually see Mr Myers.He told the jury he saw a fire burning behind a blue house and three men around the fire that he recognised as Mr Myers, “Killa Ken” and “Mikey Boobs”.He said some clothing was thrown into the fire.In his opening speech to the jury, prosecutor Rory Field alleged that Mr Myers lit this fire to destroy evidence of his role in the shooting less than an hour after it happened.Mr Darrell said he saw police arrive as he left Middletown, and looked down on the scene from the top of some steps.“There was scatter action. Guys were running. I saw the police get out of the car and [they] went towards the direction where they were running and retrieved some clothes where they were burning behind this blue house.”The jury heard evidence earlier yesterday from Detective Constable Peter Thompson who said a partially burned pair of sneakers, a glove, jeans and a sock were recovered from the fire.Prosecutor Mr Field told the jury these were later linked to Mr Myers by DNA tests. Continuing his evidence, Mr Darrell said Mr Myers and his associates threatened him when he went to buy heroin and cocaine from them in the aftermath of that night.On one occasion around a week-and-a-half later: “Before I left, he [Myers] pulled me aside. He pulled a gun on me.“He pushed it in my ribs. He said if he finds out I pricked on him, I know what’s going to happen. I was scared. I asked him ‘what is this all about?’ He said he was just joking.”He said on another occasion, Mr Myers’ associates including Killa Ken made gun gestures with their fingers, and accused him of being a police informant.Mr Darrell said he did speak to the police on two occasions about what happened because he feared for his life and hoped they would do the right thing.He said he did not press charges. He added that he was not giving evidence to the trial in return for any money.“I’m giving evidence because I’m tired of the problem and I want to be part of the solution. Also for the love of my grandchildren,” he explained.Under cross-examination by defence lawyer Jerome Lynch QC, Mr Darrell confirmed he left Bermuda to live overseas last July amid fears for his safety.Mr Lynch suggested he did not speak to the police about the case until last June, six months after the murder. Mr Darrell said he could not remember when he did so. He confirmed for Mr Lynch that he had been abusing heroin and cocaine for 44 years until he left the Island, but is now in recovery.He agreed he was a drug addict at the time of the murder and at the time he made two police statements in June 2010.Mr Myers denies murder and using a firearm and the case continues.