A 21-year-old Jamaican national heard a Canadian teenager repeatedly scream "No'' and watched as another man attacked her, a court heard yesterday.

Kirk Orlando Mundy appeared in Supreme Court yesterday charged with being an accessory to the murder of 17-year-old Rebecca Middleton whose body was found lying mostly naked in a pool of blood on Ferry Reach Road on July 3.

She had been stabbed repeatedly and there was evidence she had been sexually assaulted.

Mundy pleaded guilty to the charge and was jailed for five years by Chief Justice Austin Ward.

"This is a most gruesome murder,'' said Mr. Justice Ward.

Yesterday Crown Counsel Khamisi Tokunbo told the court that on July 2, this year, Miss Middleton and her friend Jasmine Meens spent the evening at Harbour Nights in St. George's.

They were spending their summer vacation in Bermuda and were staying with Miss Meens' father in Flatts after arriving on June 20 from Canada, he said.

After spending the evening in St. George's with friends, they called for a taxi to pick them up at a home on Mullet Bay Road at about 12.30 a.m., Mr.

Tokunbo told the court.

By 3.00 a.m. no taxi had come and after calling for a third time they left the residence and waited for a taxi by the road.

While they were there, he said, a male cyclist stopped and talked to them and then another cycle carrying two men stopped and they offered the girls a ride home.

The girls accepted although they did not know the three men and Miss Meens got on the bike of the single man's cycle while Miss Middleton sat between the two men on the other cycle.

Mr. Tokunbo said the cycle with the two men and Miss Middleton rode off first and left the other cycle behind.

Miss Meens arrived home but there was no sign of her friend or the two men.

She and her father, Rick Meens, went in search of the missing girl and called the Police at around 8.00 a.m. to report her missing, said Mr. Tokunbo, but Miss Middleton's body had already been found earlier that morning.

An autopsy revealed she had died as a result of haemorrhage and shock caused by multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen.

"There were some 35 external wounds and bruises identified to the body along with other minor bruises,'' said Mr. Tokunbo.

"There was also evidence suggesting forceful vaginal and possibly anal intercourse shortly before death,'' he added.

The instrument used to inflict the wounds appeared to be a single edged sharp pointed blade of at least three and a half to four inches in length and half an inch in width.

Mr. Tokunbo said Mundy was arrested on July 10 on suspicion of murdering Miss Middleton.

Mundy jailed At first he denied going to St. George's on July 2 and said he spent the night at his girlfriend's house.

Later he admitted going to St. George's that night with 17-year-old Justis Rahman Smith on his girlfriend's motorcycle.

Mr. Tokunbo said Mundy told Police that they went to the Moonglow Bar where they met several friends and had a few drinks.

While there, continued Mr. Tokunbo, Mundy said he danced with a "white girl'' and then left the bar with Smith at 3.00 a.m.

Mr. Tokunbo said Mundy added that on their way out of St. George's he saw the same girl by the side of the road with another girl and a male cyclist and stopped to offer them a ride home.

He added that Police enquiries revealed the girls never went to the Moonglow Bar that night.

Mr. Tokunbo said: "He (Mundy) stated that whilst riding along Mullet Bay Road the girl who was sitting between him and Smith fondled and played with his private parts and whispered in his ear words to the effect that she wanted to have sex with him.

"He therefore drove to Ferry Reach and had sexual intercourse with the girl with her consent.

"He (Mundy) claimed he used a condom and on completion `went down to the water side to wash his genitals','' said Mr. Tokunbo.

"Upon returning the defendant said he heard the girl repeatedly screaming `No'.

Mr. Tokunbo said Mundy went back to where he had left the girl and told Police: "It looked like he (Smith) was punching her in the face. I saw red coming from her neck area.'' Mr. Tokunbo said Mundy told Police that after pulling Smith off the girl he looked and saw he had a knife in his hand.

He added that Mundy told Police: "I told him get on the bike and let's go. He pulled up his pants and jumped on the bike.'' The two men rode off leaving the girl behind and Smith threw the knife overboard at the Swing Bridge before Mundy took him to his residence in Pembroke, said Mr. Tokunbo.

He added that Mundy participated in a reconstruction of his movements that night and Police divers later recovered a black plastic handled, serrated edge, stainless steel knife from the eastern side of the Swing Bridge.

"The blade on the knife was bent,'' said Mr. Tokunbo.

Mundy told Police he "was shocked and frightened'', and "was not responsible'' for the girl's death, continued Mr. Tokunbo.

Mr. Tokunbo said Mundy told Police he did not voluntarily go to them and assist in the investigation because he "was frightened'' and if he "said anything Lord knows what Justis Smith might have done'' to him.

Mr. Tokunbo said Mundy also denied any knowledge that the license plate of the motorcycle he was riding was covered with a piece of cloth.

In closing arguments, Mr. Tokunbo asked Mr. Justice Ward to consider a sentence of three or four years for Mundy, noting that the maximum sentence for the offence was seven years and the defendant had assisted Police "extensively'' with the investigation.

Mundy's lawyer Mark Pettingill noted that Mundy had agreed to testify in any criminal court proceedings against Smith.

However it was also revealed that Mundy committed the offence while on bail for another offence.

Mr. Ward said that Mundy did assist Smith in avoiding the Police and the matter had to be regarded with the utmost gravity.

He did suggest however that if Mundy testified against Smith the sentencing could be taken to the Court of Appeal where it could possibly be reduced.

Smith -- who has been charged with the premeditated murder of Miss Middleton -- is slated to appear in Magistrates' Court on Monday for a long form preliminary inquiry.

MURDERED -- 17-year-old Rebecca Middleton.

JAILED -- Kirk Orlando Mundy.