Fashion choices and fancy dress outfits became a hot topic at Supreme Court when murder-accused Antoine Anderson was quizzed over garments seized from his home.

On trial along with his brother-in-law Philip Bradshaw for allegedly shooting Aquil Richardson, the jury has already heard about a pair of jeans found to have Anderson's DNA and gunshot residue on them.

In evidence in his own defence on Wednesday, he denied the size 38 jeans were his, claiming they were too big.

Asked yesterday by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Michael McColm if he was in the habit of wearing jeans too big for him, Anderson replied: "Anyone that wears pants that hangs down is into some sort of activity. I wear pants that are my size and that's it. My lord (Chief Justice), I do not wear any pants that are too big for me."

In answer to a further question from the prosecutor, Anderson said he would never wear jeans that were too long for him either, because that would be "silly".

At this point, Mr. McColm handed him a series of photographs taken of him posing with co-accused Philip Bradshaw at the Hamilton Princess hotel on February 9, 2008.

"That picture shows you wearing jeans. Those jeans are rolled up at the bottom," pointed out the prosecutor.

Anderson agreed.

"And those jeans are bigger than your size," continued Mr. McColm.

Anderson replied: "We're posing for the picture is what it is. Therefore you have a certain look...pants rolled up to get the perfect picture, a model picture. So at a place like Hamilton Princess you can understand this...it's a look. You're not up with the fashion, but it's a certain look that you present."

Mr. McColm then turned to the subject of a black ski mask and eye mask found in the pocket of the jeans. Prosecution witness Malika Gumbs claimed she saw Anderson holding a ski mask when he returned home on the night of the shooting. Witnesses from the scene have described the culprits wearing masks.

Anderson denied having a ski mask in his possession on the night in question, telling the jury that the one seized was a relic from days spent in North Carolina with the Bermuda Regiment. Of the eye mask, he said: "At a Halloween party around that period I was dressed up as a Ninja Turtle or something like that."