A career criminal who claims his close friend is a murderer admitted he had committed an armed bank robbery and robbed a bar himself.However, Randy Lightbourne insisted he is telling Supreme Court the truth when he says Derek Spalding shot footballer Shaki Crockwell dead.Mr Lightbourne denied suggestions from a defence lawyer that he had struck a deal in order to give evidence against Mr Spalding this week.Mr Lightbourne has told the trial Mr Spalding, his old friend from prison, made repeated threats to kill Mr Crockwell over a drug debt.He said Mr Spalding later admitted he’d shot Mr Crockwell, 25, in the back of the head on the Railway Trail in Devonshire in August 2007.Mr Lightbourne repeated that information to detectives in a statement in November 2010 while he was in hospital. At the time, he was seriously ill and believed he was dying from gunshot wounds.“I never liked what happened to Shak and the lying to his father every time I saw his father,” he told Supreme Court yesterday. “I just wanted to clear my conscience. I didn’t think I was going to testify. I thought I was going to die.”Mr Spalding is accused of the premeditated murder of Mr Crockwell and using a firearm to commit that killing. He denies the charges.Mr Spalding’s defence lawyer Mark Pettingill has suggested Crown witness Mr Lightbourne is a “pathological liar” who cannot be trusted.Mr Lightbourne refuted the allegation of lying, telling the jury: “I stand here with my conscience completely clear. Whatever happens, happens, but I know that I’m telling the truth.”While being cross examined by Mr Pettingill, Mr Lightbourne admitted stealing $70,000 from a Bank of Butterfield branch in Somerset during an armed robbery in July 1997. He said he hit the security guard at the bank with the gun and stashed the cash and the gun next to each other.He was caught for the robbery the same day and said police found the Glock 9 gun but not the money.Mr Lightbourne also admitted to committing a robbery at Woody’s Bar in Somerset in December 1995, using a knife on that occasion.“What happened to the money from Woody’s?” inquired Mr Pettingill.“I spent it,” replied Mr Lightbourne, 45.He explained that he was sentenced to 33½ years in jail in 1999 and released on parole in December 2008. Mr Pettingill suggested: “One of the Assistant Commissioners of Police signed off for you to get early parole.”Mr Lightbourne replied: “I never heard of that. I went to the Parole Board.”Asked if the police offered him money for information about the death of Mr Crockwell, Mr Lightbourne replied: “There was never any money offered by the police but I was well aware from day one that there was a reward out for information on Shaki’s murder, and I have never applied for that reward. I was never offered any money by the police or anybody else.”He agreed with Mr Pettingill that neither he nor his family lives in Bermuda any more as he got worried about his family after he was shot.“When I got shot I had made plans with my family to leave Bermuda, prior to me ever mentioning anything about Spalding,” he told the jury.The defence lawyer went on to suggest Mr Lightbourne made a “deal to give evidence for the Crown” in the Spalding case. He questioned him closely over Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) that he signed after he was shot.Mr Lightbourne denied making any deal. He said an MOU is made “between two Governments” and his related to support he got as a shooting victim who agreed to testify against the culprit.He denied making any deal over giving evidence against Mr Spalding.“I never felt threatened by Spalding,” he added.The case continues.