A man who said he witnessed murder victim George Kelly being stabbed told Supreme Court yesterday that he did not see the knife entering the dead man's chest.

Shawne Bascome told the jury on Thursday he saw Gernell Darrell "pull a knife and make an action towards the guy's chest" during an argument at a taxi rank on Church Street, Hamilton, on May 31 last year.

Darrell, 23, of Swansbay Hill, Pembroke, denies murdering Mr. Kelly, a homeless man, whose body was found the following morning in the car park of the Silver Spoon restaurant in Victoria Street, Hamilton.

Under cross-examination from Darrell's lawyer Mark Pettingill yesterday, Mr. Bascome admitted he did not know in which hand Darrell allegedly held the knife.

Mr. Pettingill said: "You never saw the knife going into Mr. Kelly's chest, did you?" Mr. Bascome replied: "No."

Mr. Pettingill then asked if he saw anything in Darrell's hand after the alleged stabbing, and he replied he couldn't be sure.

Mr. Bascome, who admitted he had been drinking heavily before the incident, said he had been concentrating on a wound Darrell suffered to his chest.

The trial before Assistant Justice Charles-Etta Simmons, heard Thursday that minutes before the attack at the taxi rank, Mr. Kelly, 42, stabbed Darrell in the chest with a screwdriver at the bus station after the accused began slapping him and claiming he had been beating his girlfriend.

Darrell and friend on a motorcycle then pursued Mr. Kelly to a taxi rank at Church Street where two witnesses said they saw the accused strike the dead man.

Taxi driver Rudolph Bean, whom Mr. Kelly spoke to in an agitated voice before the attack, said he saw a man with an open shirt bleeding from a wound who seemed to be clutching an object in his hand, strike Mr. Kelly on the neck.

Director of Public Prosecutions Khamisi Tokunbo told the court Thursday that there would be evidence that Darrell stabbed Mr. Kelly once on the chest, delivering a fatal blow.

Mr. Bean said yesterday the man who was injured "had his hand down by his side. I couldn't see if he was holding anything, but the way he had his hand clasped I thought he had something in it.

"He took a swipe at the gentleman who came to see me (Mr. Kelly) and made contact." He described it as a "kind of roundhouse" swing and the contact was on Mr. Kelly's neck. Mr. Kelly ran off afterwards.

The trial continues Monday.