A man accused of murdering his housemate used the deceased’s phone the morning after the victim was last seen alive, a jury was told yesterday.

The Supreme Court heard that records indicated that Jevon Daniels last used his phone at 9.39pm on May 13, 2016, making a 32-second call to Davin Providence, his alleged killer.

Records indicated that the following morning the SIM card from Mr Providence’s phone was put into Mr Daniels’s phone, photographs of the victim were deleted from the device and social media accounts associated with Mr Providence were added to it.

Mr Providence later sent several Facebook and WhatsApp messages indicating that he had a new phone, but made no inquiries about Mr Daniels’s whereabouts nor expressed concerns about his safety.

Mr Daniels’s SIM card, meanwhile, was briefly used in Mr Providence’s phone on May 15 and the user accessed messages sent to Mr Daniels from his mother and the mother of his son.

Mr Providence has denied allegations that he murdered Mr Daniels on an unknown date between May 13 and July 17, 2016.

The court earlier heard that Mr Daniels had lived with Mr Providence at the defendant’s home on the Railway Trail in Sandys.

Mr Daniels’s mother said she contacted Mr Providence on the morning of May 16, who said that he had told Mr Daniels that morning to leave the apartment and not come back.

The police were later contacted about Mr Daniels’s disappearance and spoke with Mr Providence on May 21, seizing two phones from the defendant.

Almost two months later, Mr Daniels’s body was discovered near the Ireland Rangers Football grounds wrapped in construction sheeting, trash bags and blue tape.

In a subsequent interview, Mr Providence maintained that he had sent Mr Daniels away from his apartment in the early hours of May 16 and had not seen him since.

Questioned about the phones, he said that he had one since March and had purchased the second from a drug addict named “Gary” on May 14 for $20.

As the trial continued Christopher Milroy, a criminal pathologist, said he was contacted to give a second opinion on Mr Daniels’s body, reviewing the autopsy and toxicology reports.

Dr Milroy told the court that there were no signs that Mr Daniels had been beaten, shot, stabbed or strangled, and he could not provide a cause of death with any certainty.

He also said he could not confirm a time of death beyond a few weeks before the autopsy was carried out on Mr Daniels’s body.

However, he said that the body was likely wrapped in plastic before it was left exposed to the elements.

Dr Milroy said: “If the body had been left exposed outside for any significant length of time before it was wrapped, 12 to 24 hours, one might expect to see entomological activity. Insects would have gotten to it.

“The fact that he was wrapped up and the absence of that indicates that it happened quickly.”

Under cross examination, Dr Milroy accepted that he would expect signs of a struggle if Mr Daniels had been suffocated unless he was already incapacitated.

Dr Milroy said he could not rule out alcohol intoxication and, while toxicology reports showed no sign of opiates, he could not say for sure if fentanyl had been tested for specifically.

He said: “Fentanyl is about 100 times as potent as morphine. It is a toxic drug and it has killed a lot of people in North America in the last ten, 12 years.”

The trial continues.

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