Anthony Conroy Francis offered Che Pennyman $10,000 and promised to make sure "his needs were met'' if he agreed not to testify against him, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

But Pennyman said he refused to bring anyone else down because he had no reason to implicate another person.

Pennyman testified for most of the second day in Francis' robbery trial yesterday.

He has alleged that Francis received $15,000 for supplying the getaway vehicle and the nine millimetre hand gun that was used to rob the Southampton Princess branch of the Bank of Butterfield.

Francis, 27, of Stadium Heights, Devonshire, denies robbing the bank and possessing a handgun on October 14, 1994.

He is alleged to have worked in concert with Pennyman during the robbery.

Pennyman is currently serving a 12-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to the robbery earlier this year.

"He's been telling people lies,'' Pennyman said. "He wants us to be friends.

We did something wrong and it got messed up. He wants me to get him off. He said he would take care of me if I brought someone else down.

"He promised me half now and half later when he got off. I didn't want to hear all that.

"There is no reason for me to say Conroy was with me if he wasn't.'' During cross examination from Francis' lawyer Mr. Archie Warner, Pennyman denied that he had planned to rob the bank with another man called Freddy Lee days before he met Francis on the morning of October 14, 1994.

In his testimony on Monday, Pennyman told the court that he left Robert Wilson and Lee at Wilson's home before he set off with Francis to rob the bank.

In his Police statement, Pennyman said Lee had left before he and Francis set off to rob the bank.

Wilson, the third prosecution witness to testify yesterday, said he was arrested at his home after Police found Francis' V-80 motorcycle in his yard and money in his jeans' pants pocket that they claimed came from the robbery.

He said he saw Francis at about 4 p.m. riding a motorcycle although he could not recall its colour.

Wilson said Francis was just riding through and they did not talk other than to say hello.

He said Che Pennyman had given him the money. However, in his Police statement, Wilson said he saw Francis on Parsons Road and he recognised the motorcycle because it had a large carburettor.

In the statement which Wilson was asked to read out in court, he said he saw Francis who gave him $100 in cash. Wilson said he spent about $45 of that money and put the rest in his pocket.

When Crown counsel Mr. Khamisi Tokunbo pointed out this discrepancy, Wilson said the statement he had read out was not the original and he had made it under duress.

The trial enters its third day today before Puisne Judge the Hon. Mrs. Justice Wade.