A man accused of a double shooting in which 24-year-old Stefan Burgess was murdered has produced an alibi just before the close of trial.

Julian Washington stands charged with the premeditated murder of Mr Burgess at a house party on The Glebe Road, Pembroke on the night of January 8, 2012.

He is also charged with the attempted murder of Davano Bremer, along with using a firearm and handling ammunition.

Taking the stand earlier this week, Mr Washington said he’d gone with friends on the night of the shooting to the Mid-Atlantic Boat Club.

He arrived at around 9pm, where the group then learned by phone of the attack.

Prior to setting out, he said he’d been socialising with Ebony Jones, a neighbourhood friend, who bought him food from the Yardie Kitchen on The Glebe Road between about 8.15pm and 8.30pm.

Yesterday, Ms Jones told Crown counsel Victoria Greening she’d dropped Mr Washington off at the boat club, but hadn’t gone in with him.

“You knew there’d been a shooting that night,” Ms Greening told her, to which the witness said: “When I got home.”

But she denied hearing the next day that Mr Washington had been arrested as a suspect in the murder.

“You didn’t think to tell someone that he was with you that night?” Ms Greening asked. “In the days and weeks after, you didn’t think to tell someone that you were with him?”

Ms Jones said she hadn’t — and, when asked why not, told the prosecutor: “I don’t know.”

She added: “I knew he got arrested — but I didn’t know what he got arrested for until recently.” She said she’d informed Mr Washington’s lawyer earlier in the week.

“That’s two and a half years after the event,” Ms Greening said. “Would you agree with me that your memory is a bit hazy after two and a half years, and may have been fresher at the time?”

The witness agreed, and said she hadn’t minded picking up food and providing transport for Mr Washington on the night of January 8.

“I’m suggesting to you that coming to court today is just another example of you doing what Julian wants you to do, to provide him with an alibi,” Ms Greening said. “I’m suggesting you weren’t with him at all that night.”

Ms Jones maintained that she had — and denied being “pressured” or “intimidated” to appear as a witness for the defence.

The prosecutor then asked if she’d known that the Yardie Kitchen had closed at 8pm that evening.

The witness said she hadn’t been aware, and agreed she would have had to go there before 8pm to get Mr Washington’s meal.

Defence lawyer Larry Mussenden then introduced a report by UK gunshot residue (GSR) expert Angela Shaw, which Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves told the jury was intended to contradict the GSR evidence introduced earlier that showed one- and two-component particles of GSR had been recovered from the accused man’s clothing.

GSR is composed of the elements antimony, barium and lead, the jury heard. No particles containing all three were recovered, but a variety of mixtures containing two or one elements.

The court heard that three shots were fired outside the house, followed by three inside, with six .45 calibre Winchester cartridges left at the scene.

According to the report, the three elements of GSR have been observed also in certain car brake pads as well as firework debris.

Particles containing one or two components are referred to as indicative or consistent with GSR, the report said, while particles containing all three are “characteristic” of GSR.

Lead and antimony particles may derive from lead fishing weights, diving weights, batteries and solder, the report said — suggesting there was “nothing to support the view” that particles on Mr Washington’s clothes originated from the firing of a gun.

The report also suggested the shapes of the particles didn’t fit the normal GSR morphology of the smoothly spherical particles generated in the intense heat of a gunshot.

The court heard next from Yardie Kitchen employee Gerald Smith, who said the restaurant closed its doors at 8pm on Sundays and kept them shut for security reasons.

Recalling the night, Mr Smith said he’d been washing up when he and his cousin had heard a loud bang, followed by another.

“We looked out, and saw the police outside,” Mr Smith added.

The trial continues today.