after burying the evidence for fear of reprisals.

Leslie Wade, 32, of Loyal Hill, Devonshire revealed in the Supreme Court trial of David Dill that he buried the knife used in the incident behind an old house after receiving it from Dill on April 15.

Dill, of no fixed abode, had denied attempting to murder schoolteacher Dafyde Hermann Smith at his Pembroke home in the early hours of April 15.

Yesterday, Mr. Wade told the 11-woman, one-man jury that he had seen Dill on Court Street around 4.30 a.m. that day.

He said Dill had asked him for "some stuff''.

Mr. Wade said Dill did not have the money to pay for the drugs.

"He told me he was going to get the money,'' Mr. Wade said. "But when he came back, he did not have it. He said to give him some more, he would pay me.

He told me he would do something. He said something's going down and I would get paid.'' When asked by Senior Crown counsel Brian Calhoun what that something might have been, he answered: "I took it to mean a criminal act.'' "He told me to take him to his cousin's house and he would get the money,'' Mr. Wade said. "I took him on a V80.'' However, they got a flat and flagged down a taxi, but admitted to only having $10 on him. He said the taxi driver thanked him for his honesty.

Mr. Wade also said after he and Dill arrived at his (Wade's) residence on Loyal Hill, Devonshire, Dill asked him for some rum and a large knife.

"I told him my auntie had a few inside, but I did not give him any,'' Mr.

Wade said, adding that he went inside to go to sleep.

He told Mr. Calhoun that Dill had been wearing dark blue jeans and a navy windbreaker that evening.

He added that he had gone to sleep and was awakened by a knock on his window in the early hours of the morning. Mr. Wade said Dill gave him a knife, which he placed between the couch and chair where he was sleeping. He told Mr.

Calhoun that he went to Court Street the next day and heard a lot of talk concerning the incident.

He said as a result of this, he went home to look more closely at the knife.

"I was concerned that I could be holding something, a weapon,'' Mr. Wade admitted, adding that when he realised what he had he wiped the fingerprints off the knife and buried it behind an old house near Mr. Smith's residence.

Mr. Wade went back to Court Street and saw Dill.

"He asked me where was the knife and I said I had buried it,'' Mr. Wade recalled. "I asked him if he had stabbed and robbed those people and he said Yeah, you know I done it. I f***ed it up. I didn't get nothing.'' Mr. Wade said he told a female friend and she got him to turn in the knife to Police on April 18.

Accused: David Dill, who denies attempted murder.