A witness told the Supreme Court that he saw Raheem Wray stab footballer Osagi Bascome in a fight outside a December 2021 party.

The witness, who cannot be identified because of a reporting restriction, said he was preparing to leave a party at the Fun Zone in St David’s when he heard the sound of a punch or a slap.

He told the court he turned and saw Mr Bascome, his friend, and a young man in front of him in a fighting stance.

The witness said he got off his bike and began to approach the scene when he saw Mr Wray stab Mr Bascome.

“It was kind of a poke, a poking-type motion,” he said. He added that for a “split second” he saw Mr Wray had a knife.

While the witness said during cross-examination that he had sent text messages and voice notes in which he claimed he had made his witness statement because he was promised $10,000, he told the court that it was a lie.

He said that when he gave his witness statement he believed it would be anonymous but he was later sent images of his statement with his named attached and lied to explain it.

Asked why he had lied, he said: “Because I was in fear that something would happen to me.”

Mr Wray has denied allegations that he murdered Mr Bascome in an incident in the early hours of December 18, 2021.

The witness said that on December 17, 2021 he had gone to happy hour at the St Regis, where he met Mr Bascome.

He said they later left the hotel and went to Mr Bascome’s home before he left for St George’s Cricket Club while Mr Bascome changed his clothes.

They met up again at the White Horse Tavern & Pub in St George’s before leaving for the Fun Zone in St David’s, where a party was taking place.

He told the court that after the stabbing, Mr Bascome began to walk towards him holding his chest.

“There was a lot of blood spurting out of his chest, so I knew Osagi was in trouble,” he said.

The witness said he could not recall what Mr Wray was wearing but that he was not wearing a face mask at the time.

He told the court that after the stabbing, the defendant got into a car that had pulled up.

“Afterwards he was yelling and saying a lot of stuff. I can’t remember what he was saying,” he said. “He was sitting out of the window and was talking to whoever was there.”

The witness said that soon after the incident he went to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and helped to get Mr Bascome out of a car and into the emergency room.

“He had all this blood on the jacket he was wearing,” he said. “I was trying to grab him out of the car and Osagi is not a little guy. I dropped him by mistake and a guy came and brought out a wheelchair.

“I put him in the wheelchair but he was slipping in the wheelchair so I had to hold his feet so they were able to push him into ER.”

Jerome Lynch, KC, counsel for Mr Wray, showed the witness a series of WhatsApp messages he sent to a friend, whom he declined to name.

In the exchange, the witness told his friend: “They gave me money.”

He added that he had been promised $10,000 to give a statement and another $10,000 to take the stand.

The witness also acknowledged that he told another friend in a voice note that he had been promised money to make the statement.

However, he told the court that he had not been promised or received any money for his statement or his testimony and that he had acted out of fear.

Mr Lynch also questioned the witness about comments he had made in his police statement about feeling “tension” while at the White Horse.

He said that after the incident, he was informed that an acquaintance was upset with Mr Bascome over a $2,500 deal involving CBD oils.

Mr Lynch suggested that Mr Bascome had sold the person CBD oil instead of the “real stuff” that contained THC.

The witness confirmed that it was what he had heard but maintained that he was not aware of any conflict at the time, only that the two were not as close as they had been.

The witness accepted that he had several drinks on the evening of the murder, including three drinks at the St Regis Hotel and one or two more at the White Horse.

However, he maintained that he was “nowhere close” to being drunk and remembered what he had seen.

The witness also repeatedly refused to name individuals he had seen and spoken to during the night.

The trial continues.

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