Fingerprints from a man accused of raping a woman after breaking into her home were found on the frame and sill of the window in question, an expert witness told Supreme Court.

Monique Hill, a fingerprint officer at the Police Forensic Support Unit, compared prints from the scene of the alleged attack in Pembroke with those taken from the defendant.

She told his trial yesterday that a palm print on the bathroom window sill and a print from a right ring finger on the frame matched his. She said the finger print indicated he was standing outside, grasping the frame.

The victim of the alleged attack has previously told the court she awoke in the early hours of November 12 2006 to find an intruder armed with a knife inside her bedroom.

She said he threatened to kill her, raped her, and made her shower afterwards. She said that after this he made her don sunglasses and drive to a bank ATM to withdraw $1,000, warning he would kill her if she looked at his face.

During her evidence, she said he told her he broke a window to get into her home.

The case for the man, as outlined by his lawyer Larry Scott, is that the woman collected him from the Ducking Stool area of Pembroke on the evening in question, took him to her home to repair a window, offered him wine, and had consensual sex with him. She denied this when Mr. Scott put it to her.

Neither the complainant nor the 54-year-old defendant, of no fixed address, can be identified for legal reasons.

The man denies charges of aggravated burglary and serious sexual assault causing bodily harm while armed, plus robbery and deprivation of liberty.

At one point during the woman?s evidence earlier this week, she told the jury she was puzzled when her assailant said people he owed drug money to told him to come to her house because she was a nurse with lots of gold jewellery. She said told the man he had got the wrong person.

In evidence yesterday, Detective Constable Patrick Rock said during investigations into the allegations, two houses where nurses lived in the victim?s neighbourhood were identified.

The jury also heard a statement from Detective Sergeant Dean Martin who arrested the defendant. The officer said he and two others on duty in Elliott Street, Pembroke, around 9.55 a.m. on November 15 saw the man getting out of a taxi near the Augustus Funeral Home.

Det. Sgt. Martin said he recognised the person as wanted for questioning in connection with an alleged sexual assault, and he was arrested.

The court also heard evidence related to the allegation that the victim was made to hand over $1,000 from an ATM.

Katherine Patton-Duguay, Assistant Vice President (Compliance), at the Bank of Butterfield said the woman?s account indicated two amounts of $500 were taken out in transactions at 5.57 a.m and 5.58 a.m on November 12.

The jury was also shown security camera footage showing the woman, wearing dark glasses, at the ATM in question.

The case continues.