A Supreme Court jury heard from Police officers who arrested and questioned a man accused of the serious sexual assault of his wife in May 1995.

Taking the stand yesterday before Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux, P.c John White and Detectives Don DeSilva and Tarina Rawlins told the nine-woman three-man jury how, on the evening of the alleged sexual attack, the accused turned himself into Police and was subsequently interviewed.

Earlier in the day a neighbour of the couple, who's five-year marriage was ending when the incident is said to have happened, testified that her friend, left her house at 5:30 that evening, returning some 30 minutes later, "crying hysterically.'' According to the witness the victim cried: "He raped me, he raped me,'' over and over again. The alleged victim was sheltered at her neighbour's house while calls were made to the Physical Abuse Centre and to Police.

A Physical Abuse Centre counsellor and Police officers arrived at the scene shortly afterward.

The witness also recounted a telephone conversation she claims to have had with the accused minutes after the alleged attack took place.

According to the neighbour, the 30-year-old St. George's resident who is charged with serious sexual assault admitted to: "Knocking her about a bit, that's all,'' before hanging up.

Later that day when turning himself in to Police, according to P.c. White he said: "I had a fight with my wife. I didn't hit her but she hit me and I pushed her on the bed.'' Later, the accused was interviewed by Detectives DeSilva and Rawlins, but declined to answer questions, at one point saying to D.c. DeSilva: "I ain't saying nothing. I ain't doing nothing. I ain't signing nothing.'' Earlier this week the court heard how the couple's marriage ended in name calling, shouting, and sexual assault.

Testifying on the trials's opening the day, the 40-year-old Sandys Parish woman told of coming home on the afternoon of May 29, 1995 -- after working the day at an Island hotel -- only to find her husband standing in their apartment, wearing a T-shirt and his underpants.

According to the alleged victim: "He said, `C'mon, let's do it one last time before you leave', I told him no.'' The complainant, who had planned to divorce her husband and move to her mother's house that day, recalled how he became angry, verbally abusive and how the confrontation escalated, with him grabbing her by the arms and throwing her to a bed, holding a hand over her mouth, and sexually assaulting her.

The case continues today.