The older brother of murdered footballer Osagi Bascome said he saw the man accused of the fatal stabbing holding a knife moments after the deadly fight.

Onias Bascome told the Supreme Court he had gone with his brother to the Fun Zone in St David’s in the early hours of December 18, 2021. He was preparing to leave when he heard the sound of a punch.

When he turned, he said he saw a man in a red tracksuit riding away from the area and heard his brother shouting at another attendee, Jahnazae Swan, who was in a car near by.

“They were both sort of shouting at each other about the situation,” Mr Bascome said. “They were talking about money.

“Osagi said, ‘Your brother just punched me, so I’m not giving it to you’.”

Onais Bascome said that he was trying to talk to Mr Swan to calm the situation down when he heard his brother shout out to him.

“That is when I looked to him,” he said. “He was in the road. When he called out, he lifted his shirt and said, ‘Look what they done to me’.

“I could tell he had been stabbed. I couldn’t tell who stabbed him.”

However, he said he was then approached by a man, whom he identified as Raheem Wray, brandishing a knife.

Mr Wray, from Devonshire, has denied murdering Osagi Bascome in the incident on December 18, 2021.

The court previously heard evidence from a witness, who cannot be identified because of a reporting restriction, and who said he had seen Mr Wray stab Osagi Bascome during a fight before leaving the scene.

He also told the court that while the victim had once been close friends with Mr Swan, after the incident he was told they had a falling-out after Osagi Bascome sold Mr Swan $2,500 of CBD oil.

As the trial continued yesterday, Onias Bascome, the captain of the St George’s Cup Match team, told the court that he had gone to the party with Osagi Bascome at about 2am on December 18, 2021.

He said that as they were preparing to leave, he told his brother to wait for him and went to get a helmet from the back of his van.

Onias Bascome said that his brother was sitting on his bike in the road when a car approached and honked its horn, causing him to move the bike closer to the van.

He said that when he went to grab the helmet, he heard the sounds of a punch and saw a man in a red tracksuit speed away.

While he did not see the impact, he said Osagi Bascome shouted at Mr Swan, who was in the car with Mr Wray, that his little brother had just sucker-punched him.

As the two began to shout at each other, Onias Bascome said he went to the car and knocked on the window with the helmet to get Mr Swan’s attention.

“That’s when he got out and was mad because I was tapping on his window with my helmet,” he said. “I was asking him what was going on with his brother.”

He said that Mr Wray also got out of the car and there was “a lot of commotion”, but that he was trying to talk with Mr Swan to de-escalate the situation.

Onias Bascome said he then heard his brother cry his name and saw him lift his shirt to expose his wounds, but had to back away after Mr Wray approached him with a knife.

“By the time I was able to get away from that situation, someone had put Osagi in a car,” he said.

Onias Bascome also said he was told later that Mr Swan and his brother had fallen out over an issue involving money and drugs, but that he was unaware of any details.

He said he did not recall Mr Swan being involved in the physical altercation and that he had not seen anyone else with a knife at the event.

He also told the court he had not seen or spoken to Mr Swan since the incident and did not know if he was still on the island.

The court also heard evidence from Detective Constable Don DeSilva, who was involved in a search of Mr Wray’s home days after the fatal stabbing and later arrested him for the offence.

He told the court that Mr Wray had denied the offence, stating that he had not been involved in the fight, but that Mr Swan and his brother had been.

Mr DeSilva added that when he was arrested, Mr Wray said he had a voice note which implicated Mr Swan’s brother.

The trial continues.

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