A close friend and co-worker of a missing woman presumed dead recounted in the Supreme Court the last time she heard from her.

Twilia Ebbin-Wilson, who took the stand yesterday during the murder trial of Kamal Worrell, said that she received a voice message over WhatsApp from Chavelle Dillon-Burgess on April 11, 2020.

She told the jury: “In the voice note, her and Kamal Worrell were arguing. They were arguing about their baby.”

Ms Ebbin-Wilson told Ms Dillon-Burgess, who was a private in the Royal Bermuda Regiment, to stay at Warwick Camp for her safety.

She added that Ms Dillon-Burgess opened the message but did not respond — something that was very abnormal of her to do.

Ms Ebbin-Wilson said: “I kept calling and sending her messages in hopes that she would respond, but they stopped going through.

“At that point, I just kept trying to call her and send her messages.”

Ms Ebbin-Wilson said that, after several days without hearing from Ms Dillon-Burgess, she went to the Warwick home she shared with Mr Worrell.

She said: “I went to the door and asked if he knew where Chavelle was because she wasn’t responding to my calls or texts.

“He said he thought she was with me, and I said, ‘No, she’s not with me’.”

Ms Ebbin-Wilson added: “He was nonchalant, like ‘I don’t know, she’s not with me then’.”

Mr Worrell, a former lawyer, has denied allegations of murdering Ms Dillon-Burgess, the mother of his child, on an unknown date between April 10 and June 11, 2020.

He has also denied a charge of wounding Ms Dillon-Burgess, a charge of common assault related to an incident on June 1, 2019, and six counts of common assault related to an incident on November 14, 2018.

Ms Ebbin-Wilson said that she and Ms Dillon-Burgess met in June 2019 while working at the Fairmont Southampton hotel.

She said that they instantly became friends and spoke almost every day.

Ms Ebbin-Wilson, who was asked by the prosecution about the “Chavelle” tattoo on her left wrist, told the court: “We planned on getting tattoos together, but now that she’s not here, I just decided to get it.”

She added: “We were planning to get a house, so we could both live together.”

Ms Ebbin-Wilson said that she was privy to Ms Dillon-Burgess’s relationship with Mr Worrell and described it as “argumentative”, with the pair fighting almost daily.

She said that Ms Dillon-Burgess showed her documents that Mr Worrell had typed up for her to say in criminal and family court cases that the pair were in.

She explained that the documents instructed Ms Dillon-Burgess to recant her previous accusations of assault and wounding by Mr Worrell.

Ms Ebbin-Wilson added: “I only had one interaction with him [Mr Worrell], and it was the first time me and him argued.”

Ms Ebbin-Wilson said that the last time she saw her friend was in April 2020 about a week from Good Friday.

She explained that the pair hung out with Ms Ebbin-Wilson’s children and their father.

Ms Ebbin-Wilson said that she attended Ms Dillon-Burgess and Mr Worrell’s home in May 2020 with police detectives to survey the house and judge if there was anything “broken, moved around or missing”.

In the video, she said that the living room had been slightly rearranged and that the fireplace was full of ash.

She also noted that a shower curtain might have gone missing and she could not locate her child’s play mat or the white basin that she often used to wash clothes.

The trial continues.

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