Murder-accused Darronte Dill was spotted with two others in a St. George's club the night Maxwell Brangman and Frederick Gilbert were killed, his trial heard yesterday.

Police officer Shawnta Edmondson of the serious crime unit said she was off duty at a function at the Royal Artillery Association club around 2 a.m. on September 21, last year.

"Around that time a fight had happened in the club so security had stopped the music and dimmed the lights. I saw Roger Lightbourne senior and Roger Lightbourne junior and Darronte Dill walk into the club," she told the Supreme Court jury.

She described seeing them walk to the bar area then go back outside.

Victims Mr. Brangman, 57, and Mr. Gilbert, 53, are said by prosecutors to have been attacked as they slept in a hut near the Black Horse Tavern in St David's in the early hours of that day.

When the trial opened on Monday, Director of Public Prosecutions Rory Field said 19-year-old Dill, from Pembroke, "was a young man who seems to have gone out looking for trouble that night". He told the jury he played an active role in the killings but may not have acted alone.

Mr. Brangman was allegedly hit in the head and face and stabbed four times before his body was set on fire. Mr. Gilbert was stabbed 13 times and is said to have managed to escape into the nearby water before succumbing to his injuries.

The jury also heard yesterday from Detective Constable Kerwin Thorne who was present on September 23 when a doctor took a DNA mouth swab from Roger Lightbourne senior.

Two days later, the same doctor took DNA mouth swabs from Roger Lightbourne junior, Darronte Dill and another man, Justin Denbrook. Another swab was taken from a woman named Debra Wilson on September 29. These were handed over to Jan Johnson from a Florida-based company called Forensic Pieces.

Dill denies two charges of murder and the case continues.