court that she did not try to flee his home because she knew he had a gun.

"I had seen the gun before,'' she said. "I know that guns can kill people if you shoot them.'' Rashida Ming, of Pembroke, was testifying in the Magistrate's Court trial of part time truck driver Omar Cann Smith.

Smith, 30, of Valley Heights Road, Devonshire, has denied depriving the liberty of Miss Ming on the evening of December 28 last year.

Miss Ming is the mother of Smith's two-year-old son but maintained that she had no relationship with him at the time of the alleged incident.

Smith has also pleaded not guilty to possessing an offensive weapon -- a Samurai sword -- but did admit to being the owner of a BB air gun found in the bedroom of his home by Police after they carried out a search of the property a day after the alleged incident.

On Friday, Miss Ming told the court that a December 27 telephone call from Smith frightened her into spending the night at a girlfriend's Pembroke home.

The next day Miss Ming said she awoke to discover that one of her cycle tyres had been slashed.

"A few minutes later he rode a bike into the yard and said `let's go'.'' She said that she, Smith and their son rode to a home in St. David's where Smith picked up a Samurai sword.

"I didn't know what it was at first but I eventually found out it was a sword,'' she added. "It was a long sword in a black case.'' The threesome then made their way to a home in Ferry Reach where Smith dropped off the child at a friend's home.

The pair then rode "to some tracks'' where Miss Ming attempted to flee.

"I got off and ran and he came after me on the bike,'' she recalled. "I was scared and crying because I thought he was going to hurt me.'' It was when Smith caught up with Miss Ming that the sword was removed from it's case.

"He said I was disrespecting his son by having him around (her friend) Derek,'' she said. "He said that he was going to kill Derek and he said that he felt like killing me too.

"He said that my son did not need a mother.'' The hour-long ordeal came to an end when "some people'' made their way into the area.

"I was really scared and I didn't know what to do -- if I should get off the bike and go over to those people or to just stay with him.'' Miss Ming stayed with Smith. The pair then picked the child up and rode to Smith's Devonshire home.

She also told the court that she wanted to leave Smith's home but was too scared.

"I was scared to ask him because of everything that had happened during the day.'' Miss Ming said she spent the night with Smith and when she awoke the next day she was informed that she would not be going to work.

"I woke up the next morning and I wanted to go to work but he told me that I was not going to work,'' she said. "He called my job.'' She said she made no attempt to go to work because she didn't want to fight with Smith.

"He's a big guy, he's twice my size,'' she added. "I didn't go to work because he told me I was not going anywhere.'' And she said that she made no attempt to leave Smith's bedroom because she knew he had a gun.

Eventually Smith told Miss Ming that she could use a cycle to ride home to get some clothes but she had to return to his house.

"I went home and started packing some clothes but I didn't want to go back so I went next door,'' she recalled. "I was upset because I knew that my son was still up there and at one point I thought that if I didn't go back he wouldn't let me keep him.'' She then called the Police who later went to the Devonshire home and conducted a search.

The officers found a Samurai sword and an air gun.