Jurors were shown video footage yesterday of the blood-soaked apartment where Andrina Smith allegedly stabbed boyfriend Edward Allan (Sleepy) Dill to death.

Floors and walls throughout Smith's home in Cedar Park, Devonshire, were covered in bloodstains — along with her baby's cot and the front door step.

Several puncture wounds could be seen in her wooden bedroom door through which, according to prosecutors, she knifed Mr. Dill in the neck as he tried to block her from the room.

Opening the case a week ago, Senior Crown Counsel Carrington Mahoney told the jury that Smith, 26, and Mr. Dill — the father of her one-year-old daughter — argued after she returned from a night out with girlfriends.

He claimed after Mr. Dill, 35, slapped her, Smith armed herself with a knife from the kitchen. While Mr. Dill was behind a door trying to block her from a room she allegedly plunged it through the door and into his neck.

According to evidence last week from a Police officer who arrested Smith after the incident in the early hours on Monday October 16 2006, she admitted to the stabbing and said: "He beat me, he beat me. I just couldn't take it any more".

Detective Constable Steven Palmer shot the video of the scene the following day. The footage he played to the jury yesterday depicted bloodstains in Smith's bedroom, the kitchen and living room, a corridor and the front door and step.

Neighbour Joezine Butterfield-Wolffe told the trial last week that she tried to help Mr. Dill as he lay bleeding on this step but as she did so, Smith allegedly tried to beat his chest.

Det. Con. Palmer said when he arrived at the scene around 3 a.m. on the day of the incident, he seized items including a black-handled knife and a knife block containing eight knives and a pair of scissors. The jury was shown the block, which had one empty slot in it.

"The black-handled knife was found on the floor at the bottom of a baby's playpen / cot near the door of a bedroom that had a number of punctures to the door," he told the court.

The officer also showed the jury photographs of Mr. Dill's body at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where an autopsy was performed. These included a picture that showed the neck and left ear of the deceased with a 2.5 centimetre wound visible below the ear.

Defence lawyer Charles Richardson quizzed the detective on what measures were taken at the scene to prevent cross-contamination of evidence. He replied that he and a colleague donned disposable "crime scene" suits.

Det. Con. Palmer agreed with the lawyer that metal "stepping plates" — another device used to prevent cross-contamination at crime scenes — were not used. He explained he did not have enough of these and feared they would impede his ability to photograph the area.

He also agreed with Mr. Richardson that while see-through plastic stepping plates are available in other countries, Bermuda Police Service does not have these. He "could not say for sure" whether he would have taken a different view if these had been available, he told the court.

Smith, who is on bail, denies murder. The case continues.