Murder-accused Andre Hypolite wanted to exchange $50 worth of crack for a night with Nicholas Dill?s live-in girlfriend Stacey Pike, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

Hypolite, 33, of no fixed abode, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr. Dill and wounding Ms Pike with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm on Boxing Day in 2004.

On Christmas Day of 2004, Ms Pike said she, Mr. Dill and another man ? whom she knew only as ?Schai? ? did drugs and ?got high? at her home at Pearman?s Hill, Warwick.

She said she fell asleep but woke up at around 5 a.m. on Boxing Day and saw Mr. Dill and Schai smoking crack.

?Schai gave me something to smoke ? coke,? she said.

When ?Schai? found $25, she left the house to get more cocaine, however, on her way she unexpectedly met Hypolite on his motorcycle, she said.

?I asked him if he had anything so I did not have to go all the way to the village,? Ms Pike said. ?He said he had stuff ? coke.?

Ms Pike said Hypolite wanted her to go to Lisa Caines? Raynor?s Drive, Southampton home, however, since she did not want to go, she asked Hypolite to come to her and Mr. Dill?s home instead.

?He sort of made a proposition, he wanted to come up to the house and give my boyfriend a $50 rock and I go with him,? Ms Pike said. ?I played along with him and said ?yeah, just come up the house?.?

However, when she got home, she signalled to Mr. Dill ?no, no,? she said.

Ms Pike told the six-woman, six-man jury, she lived at Pearman?s Hill for three years as Mr. Dill?s girlfriend.

?He looked after me,? Ms Pike said. ?He had drugs, which were part of our life. We were a couple.?

In emotional testimony, Ms Pike said the pair would try and get each other off drugs because all the money they were making was spent on drugs.

?I was signalling at Nicky to say no because Andre wanted to offer him a $50 rock to take me up to Lisa?s and I did not want to go,? Ms Pike said. ?Andre asked him whether he wanted to do it. I don?t remember a lot of the conversation but Nicky said no.?

Hypolite had only been up to see the couple five or six times since she met him less than two months earlier at the Southampton home of Ms Caines while looking for drug credit, she said.

?I was trying to get a drug credit,? Ms Pike said. ?I asked Lisa for a credit. She said she did not have anything but had a friend inside but I would have to ask him.?

This friend was Hypolite, Ms Pike said, who gave Ms Pike a $50 piece of cocaine which she never paid for.

?I called him a half-hour later to see if he could credit me another one,? she said.

Ms Caines testified that at around 9 a.m. on the day of Mr. Dill?s death, Hypolite came to her Southampton home covered with blood and cuts trying to get inside.

?I was asleep when he came,? Ms Caines said. ?Andre woke me up. He was knocking on my window. I went around to the kitchen door. He was upset, traumatised. I observed he was all cut up. There was a lot of blood. A lot of cuts on his front, his arms and his back.?

But when Ms Caines would not let him in, he started to get upset, she said.

?I just knew it was trouble and I did not want anything to do with it. He was getting very upset at me,? she said. Police later discovered Hypolite?s red motorcycle parked at her home, she said.

Crown counsel Oonagh Vaucrossen asked Ms Caines if she was using drugs in December 2004, however, Ms Caines said she would not answer the question.

At Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves? insistence Ms Caines admitted that she was using drugs at that time.

However, she told defence lawyer Mark Pettingill she had not used drugs before her testimony.

?I?m irritated,? she said. ?I don?t want to be here.?

Earlier in Monday?s proceedings, the court was shown a Police photograph of a black-and-white cat sitting on a blood-stained bed in the murder scene.

During his cross-examination of Det. Sgt. Jewel Hayward of the Bermuda Police Service?s Forensic Support Unit, Mr. Pettingill asked what the cat was doing there.

Det. Sgt. Hayward said he had no idea how the cat got into the Pearman Hill home.

?As soon as I saw him I told him to get cracking,? Det. Sgt. Hayward said.

Det. Sgt. Hayward also agreed that the cat alone, leaving aside the Emergency Medical Technicians that came to try and save Mr. Dill?s life, had the potential to render the scene questionable as far as forensics were concerned.

The trial continues.