Police attempted to contact 83 people included on a contact-tracing list for the Fun Zone on the night Osagi Bascome was murdered, but the Supreme Court heard only one person provided a statement.

Wendell Thorpe, the senior investigating officer in the murder investigation, added that many of the numbers included on the list were not in service.

“Every person on that list was contacted,” he said. “The only positive response I got from the list was from Jakia Minors.”

He further told the court that no one at the party had called 911.

Mr Thorpe said police were only notified about the stabbing at 3.47am when contacted by King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Raheem Wray has denied a charge that he murdered Mr Bascome in an altercation in the early hours of December 18, 2021.

Earlier in the trial, a witness, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said he saw Mr Wray stab Mr Bascome during a fight outside the Fun Zone in St David’s.

The witness added that, while he was not aware of it at the time, he was later told Mr Bascome and another attendee of the party, Jahnazae Swan, had fallen out over a $2,500 deal involving CBD oil.

Mr Bascome’s older brother, Onias Bascome, told the court that he had heard his brother shout to Mr Swan that he would not give him money because Mr Swan’s younger brother had sucker punched him.

Shortly after the stabbing, he said he saw Mr Wray brandishing a knife.

As the trial continued yesterday, Mr Thorpe said that Mr Swan was initially considered a person of interest in the case and was arrested on suspicion of the murder.

However, he said Mr Swan was never charged and is believed to have left the island in October 2022.

Mr Thorpe said that Mr Swan had attended the Hamilton Police Station with his grandmother on the same day as the murder, stating that he understood officers were looking for him, but he declined to give a witness statement.

He said that at the time police were not looking for Mr Swan but he had noticed his name being mentioned in online posts related to the murder.

He said Mr Swan’s home was later searched but no items of clothing or his bed sheets were seized because they were at the laundromat.

Mr Thorpe added that while witnesses had said Mr Swan was driving a car on the night of the stabbing, officers were unable to locate the vehicle because witnesses gave differing descriptions of it.

Michael Steckbauer, the pathologist who carried out the autopsy on Mr Bascome, said he had identified two stab wounds consistent with a single-edged blade.

Dr Steckbauer said the first wound was to the left side of the chest and was 18cm deep, puncturing the left ventricle of Mr Bascome’s heart.

He said this blow was the one that caused the footballer’s death.

The second wound was found on the left side of Mr Bascome’s abdomen and, while it was 22.4cm deep, the angle of the blow meant it had only punctured soft tissue and his abdominal wall.

The trial continues.

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