Murder-accused Philip Bradshaw arrived in Bermuda from Jamaica just 11 days before Aquil Richardson was shot dead.

Denying responsibility for the crime yesterday, Bradshaw, 26, told a jury he spent the night in question sitting alone on a wall in the "42nd" area.

His co-accused and brother-in-law Antoine Anderson dropped him off there and then left.

"He told me he'll soon be back, he's going to St. George's," Bradshaw explained, estimating he spent two hours waiting for him to come back.

"I sit off on the wall playing games on my phone, saw some people I knew face-wise, I didn't know their names."

According to prosecutors, Bradshaw was the pillion passenger and gunman on a motorbike ridden by Anderson which drew up near a group of men in Camp Hill, Southampton, on the night of Boxing Day 2007.

Eyewitnesses have told the court the gunman, who wore a fur-trimmed jacket, shot at the group before getting off the bike and shooting 30-year-old Mr. Richardson twice in the head at close range.

Gunshot residue was found by investigators on clothes allegedly belonging to the accused men. Bradshaw and Anderson deny murder and wounding one of the other men, Lavar Smith.

After Anderson, 31, wrapped up three days of evidence yesterday, Bradshaw also elected to take the stand in his own defence. He agreed with his lawyer, Anesta Weekes QC, that he has no criminal convictions.

He told the jury he met his wife and Anderson's sister Tyeasha Cameron in December 2006 when a friend put him on the phone to talk to her. They married in September 2007 after Ms Cameron made two trips to Jamaica, and he came to Bermuda to be with her on December 15 2007.

Bradshaw explained that after moving to Bermuda, he stayed home during the day because he might get lost otherwise, and played football sometimes for Boulevard Blazers.

He also spent time with Anderson and his wife's other brother, Jakai Harford who got shot in the shoulder while in a car leaving a party they attended on Christmas Eve 2007.

Defence lawyers for both accused have raised the idea that gunshot residue may have got onto their clothes from the scene of the Harford shooting, not the Richardson slaying.

Anderson told the jury on Thursday that he put his fingers in the bullet holes in the car out of curiosity. Yesterday, Bradshaw said he did not see Anderson at the party and did not see the shooting, but he visited Mr. Harford in hospital later and also touched the car.

"I went over to him, held his hands, put his hands on my chest, told him to stay strong, God will bring the truth," he said of the hospital visit. "I touched the car. I touched the door. I just can't believe like, you know, that this really happened and I was just curious."

On Boxing Day evening, Bradshaw said he accompanied Anderson to "42nd" the area where Mr. Harford lived. He denied evidence given for the prosecution by his wife's friend, Malika Gumbs, that he borrowed her black fur-trimmed jacket when he headed out with Anderson.

Bradshaw insisted that he wore a gold-and-black jacket that night, explaining that he got a lift to the area on the back of Anderson's bike. Anderson left him at a spot overlooking "42nd" where there is a gambling shed and shopping area. When his brother-in-law eventually returned, he said they went home together to Curving Avenue. Bradshaw took his wife to work then went home to bed.

Quizzed by Ms Weekes about his relationship with prosecution witness Ms Gumbs who was also at the residence that evening Bradshaw said she came with his wife to Jamaica and started a relationship with his best friend there, Omar (Ashley) White.

"She said she loves him. She has his name, Omar, tattooed over her breast," he told the jury. However, his own relationship with Ms Gumbs soured after he moved from Jamaica to Bermuda.

"This girl Malika wanted to do certain things that I don't like. She would smoke weed, smoke cigarettes. I hate a female that smokes, it's not female-like," said Bradshaw. He was also unhappy that Ms Gumbs was seeing other men besides Mr. White.

"I found that disrespectful because my friend really loves her," Bradshaw told the court, explaining that Ms Gumbs "was mad" when he told Mr. White she was being unfaithful.

He is due to continue his evidence on Monday.