A woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death denied telling a jury he was involved in drugs in order to taint his reputation.

Andrina Smith told her Supreme Court murder trial that a knife was found in her bedroom after Edward Allan (Sleepy) Dill's death because he used it to cut up drugs.

Yesterday, Senior Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney suggested to Smith that in giving that testimony: "You're just trying to tarnish his name."

She replied: "I'm not. I didn't know that was going to come up about drugs and you're also tarnishing me in a way - because I knew what he done."

Although Smith, 26, did not say what type of drugs her 35-year-old boyfriend used to cut up, her lawyer Charles Richardson asked a forensics expert earlier this week if a whitish substance was found on it was consistent with cocaine.

The expert, who had been called by the prosecution, denied that.

The prosecutor also quizzed Smith yesterday about a picture taken by investigators, which showed a razor blade on top of a television in her bedroom. He asked if she was aware the blade tested positive for the presence of cocaine during the probe into Mr. Dill's death.

Smith said she was not aware - but added that besides the knife found in her room, her boyfriend used another razor blade and a boxcutter-like implement to cut up drugs there.

She told the court Mr. Dill stored the knife on top of a plate under their one-year-old daughter's crib in their room. She also explained that she gave up her job at the Bank of Bermuda after she met him, as he provided for her financially.

It is the prosecution's case that Smith stabbed Mr. Dill in a rage after he slapped her during an argument. Mr. Mahoney has claimed she plunged the blade through her wooden bedroom door and into his neck as he was on the bedroom side, trying to block her from the room.

Smith has denied murder, although she admits stabbing her boyfriend. She told the jury she grabbed a knife in the kitchen as Mr. Dill was trying to choke her - but that she did not mean to kill him.

The case continues.