A family on a scouting trip for a campsite saw murder victim Stanley Lee?s livery cycle in Lagoon Park in a clearing on July 30, two days after he was allegedly stabbed, a Supreme Court Jury heard on Friday.

Anwar Muhammad told the court that as his children began to play with the American?s red Oleander cycle until he found a knife blade near it and threw it into bushes nearby ?because it was looking dangerous?.

Mr. Muhammad?s evidence was cut short by Crown counsel Juan Wolffe as lawyers for defendants Robert Blair Tucker, James (Spooks) Dill and Terranz Smith objected on grounds that it would be ?hearsay? for him to continue.

Mr. Muhammad did not tell the court how long he and his family stayed in the park ? or why they left.

Lagoon Park, on the southern end of Ireland Island South is a Government Park but it is not maintained on any regular basis and in July, 2001 was filled with overgrown trees.

The trial adjourned early on Friday due to Director of Public Prosecutions Kulandra Ratneser was absent due to illness.

Tucker, Dill and Smith deny killing Mr. Lee on July 28, 2001, as the Crown alleges, after it was discovered cocaine they had imported and processed was of low quality.

Relations soured between Mr. Lee and Tucker when the burly ex-con demanded the return of any unsold cocaine and any money gained from it so that he could return it to the United States.

Smith showed Police the body on August 9, in an apparently unsuccessful attempt at getting immunity in the case and an unrelated housebreaking.

Mr. Muhammad told Mr. Wolffe: ?I voluntarily gave my statement because I put my hand on that blade and I thought Police might think I might be connected with this case.

?I was taking a drive with my girlfriend and our children. We were looking for a camping site to set up camp,? he explained. ?We came across Lagoon Park. The entrance gate was open and I drove my car halfway up the entrance.

?I couldn?t drive no further. I got out with my girlfriend and children and told them about a movie made up there ? ?The Deep?. At the time I thought it would be a good idea to set up camp there. When we got to the clearing there was an Oleander cycle. I saw it in the open area, it was surrounded by trees and as far as I know, it was facing the entrance.

?We looked around, I?m not sure, but the children started playing with the bike and I noticed a shiny object next to the bike which I believed to be the blade of a kitchen knife.?

Mr. Muhammad continued: ?At the time the blade looked to be about four to six inches long. No, sir, there was not a handle (on it). The children were playing and where it was, how it was positioned, it looked dangerous.

?I took it up and tossed in the trees. Shortly after, we left because my girlfriend said?,? he said, before being stopped by Mr. Wolffe. He said the knife has no blood on it when he saw it.

When, on August 22, Mr. Muhammad was taken to Lagoon Park by two Police detectives, Sergeants Corey Cross and Troy Glasgow, he immediately noted the park had changed after heavy bush clearing by Police.

He could only give an approximation of where the knife blade was thrown, but did identify a knife blade shown to him by Police.

?It was very similar,? he told Mr. Wolffe in a re-examination in which he also said a knife shown to him on the stand was ?very familiar?. Sgt. Cross told the court he found that knife blade while searching on August 17.

The only other witness for the day was Lowayne Woolrige, who works at Marine and Ports offices in Dockyard and at the Boaz Island Shell Station as a cashier.

She was on duty when Dill and another man entered the store and made a purchase sometime between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. July 28, 2001.

Ms Woolridge told the court with a nervous laugh: ?I know him as Spook. I?ve known Spook roughly about 36 years and I worked with him about five years at Marine and Ports Services from about April 1982 to about 1986 or 1987.

?He had another young man with him. I don?t remember who he was,? she explained. ?He was dark skinned and slim. That?s all I remember.?

Ms Woolridge said that Dill had lived in ?Dockyard? in the 1960s. She said, ?he?s a nuisance ? not in a bad way?, because when he greeted her, she said he playfully attempted to get behind the counter, adding: ?That?s just our way.

?He asked how I was doing. I asked him if the young man was his son. I knew he had a son, otherwise, we did not talk ? it was very busy that day.?

Ms Woolridge told Tucker?s lawyer, Larry Scott that the gas station has surveillance cameras but she has no involvement with them.

The trial continues today before Puisne Justice Norma Wade Miller.