Murder-accused Antoine Anderson was taped inside prison allegedly threatening to harm his sister Tyeasha Cameron for speaking to the Police.

Prosecutors claim he can be heard on a recording telling a prison visitor: "If Tyeasha says anything I'm gonna shot her, hear me."

Later in the tape, he is alleged to have said: "When I catch Tyeasha, I'm going to hit her so hard (whispering) hear me and when I catch her. For what she told those lot can't go no further. Because to shot her, it's gonna hurt me so for me to do it, but it's gonna hurt her."

Prosecutors claim he goes on to tell the female visitor, who cannot be named for legal reasons: "But when you go to court, baby listen to me, two guys are coming in for her and (inaudible) so when you coming in, if you say one more word coming in. Right. Listen to me, she's dead, she got children, they're going too. I can't do nothing about it."

Anderson is charged along with Tyeasha's husband Philip Bradshaw with shooting 30-year-old Mr. Richardson dead in Southampton on December 26, 2007.

The taping was done on March 8, 2008, four days after the men were charged with murder and remanded into custody at Westgate. They deny the charge, and the recordings were played yesterday at Supreme Court as part of the prosecution case against them.

The jury heard how the tapes were made by Corrections Officer Antoine Cannonier at the behest of the Police.

The jury has previously heard from Detective Constable Windol Thorpe that Anderson, 31, became angry at him as he tried to take a statement from Ms Cameron on February 18, giving him an alibi for the night of the murder.

Ms Cameron told the Police her brother was at the family home in Pembroke all night with her and Bradshaw. However, Anderson's lawyers have told the jury that his own alibi is that he was with a friend in St. George's.

On the prison recording, Anderson is alleged to have told his female visitor: "Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me. If she sinks me, my sister or not, well I said shut up (inaudible) will suffer."

Prior to the jury hearing the recordings which had poor sound quality Chief Justice Richard Ground warned that they were difficult to follow. For this reason, the jurors were provided with transcripts of what the prosecution alleges was said, with inaudible and whispered passages marked.

In Bradshaw's case, the jurors were given a phonetic written version of the Jamaican creole he spoke to his wife during their taped prison visit. They were also given a translation of this into standard English as used in this report provided by Doreen Preston, an expert in Jamaican translation from the University of the West Indies.

In the transcript, Bradshaw, 26, is said to be heard discussing "Malika" and a jacket. This is an apparent reference to earlier evidence given to the court by prosecution witness Malika Gumbs that he borrowed a black jacket from her on the night of the shooting and rode off on the back of a bike with Anderson.

Prosecutors allege that witnesses saw the shooter wearing a black jacket matching this description. On the tape, however, Bradshaw tells Ms Cameron: "I was not wearing it" and that "it would be my word against hers".

He is said to have quizzed Ms Cameron about her own statement to the Police, remarking: "Antoine and I are saying one thing and you (plural) are saying something totally different. Didn't we say Antoine left?".

The transcription also quotes him as telling his wife: "What I'm saying is that I don't know what evidence they might have against me. That's what's bothering me."

No explanation of what the men were talking about was given to the jury by anyone involved in the case.

However, defence lawyers for both men challenged the way the tape recordings were transcribed on behalf of the prosecution, with Bradshaw's lawyer, Benjamin Nolan QC, claiming: "It seemed to me that there was a lot of creative transcription there".

The case continues.