Two witnesses told of their July, 2001 contact with Lagoon Park murder victim Stanley Lee yesterday, recalling remarkable details but also admitting that their memories are hazy two-and-a-half years later.

Former Oleander Cycle rental agent Shawn Spencer recalled that he joked with ?Sean Russells? about having a friend of the same name on July 6, 2001.

Mr. Spencer remembers the man because he has a Bermudian friend with the same name and recalled the hulking American?s size and skin colour as he rented the cycle, licence number L325, at the Brightside Guest Apartments in Flatts for one day.

And Windsong Guest Apartments owner Roslyn Anderson told of calling Police to get $1,250 from defendant Robert Blair Tucker after Mr. Lee apparently skipped out of the apartment.

Mrs. Anderson confirmed that she had won a judgment summons against Tucker in Magistrates? Court, but has not pursued the case ?due to the circumstances?.

She last saw the man she knew as Sean Russells leave her Windsong Guest Apartments on his red livery cycle before 2 p.m. on July 28, at the same time as his friend, Nathan Darrell, left in a white car.

Prosecutors pressed on yesterday with their case into the murder of the mysterious Stanley Lee ? an ex-con with at least three aliases.

Police were shown his skeletonised body on August 9 by defendant Terranz Sidney (Monster) Smith, who is charged with Robert Blair Tucker and James (Spooks) Dill in the stabbing death.

The Crown, represented by Acting Director of Public Prosecutions Kulandra Ratneser, who is assisted by Juan Wolffe and Cindy Clarke, allege Mr. Lee was killed after relations soured over the quality of drugs imported some time during July.

Mr. Spencer, after saying he saw the signature ?S. Russells? be written on a rental agreement, told the court: ?He (Sean Russells) was tall, fair skinned, close to my colour, with a bald head. Well dressed ? I guess overdressed for the summer. And very neat.

?He was a big guy with a bald head. Taller than I am and even bigger than I am, I guess about six feet, four inches and 300 pounds,? Mr. Spencer added with a smile.

A New York State asbestos handler?s identification card already presented in evidence lists Sean Russells as being six feet, four inches and 240 pounds.

?We just joked about the name. I thought it was kind of funny because I have a very good friend with that name here. We just made the comparison.?

Now working elsewhere, Mr. Spencer explained Oleander?s rental procedure, and said he listed the cycle as missing after visiting Brightside the following day.

He said that once he learned the cycle had been seen in the ?West Pembroke area?, he drove through the neighbourhood twice to find the cycle a week later to no avail.

Mrs. Anderson, who lives above her $150 per night guest apartments in Princess Estates, Pembroke West, said Tucker rented an apartment for Sean Russells on July 8.

After identifying Tucker, she said: ?He came into the office and told me that Sean Russells was his cousin and they had gone to school together.

?And that he needed to have accommodations for him for about five nights. He paid a deposit of $500 and I gave him the key,? she said.

?Sean Russells was a very tall and big man with a big smile when he smiled ? with a dimple,? she said.

Later, she explained that on July 28, 2001 ? the day the Crown claims Mr. Lee was murdered ? Tucker met her after his friend had left the property.

?I think it was between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. on the 28th, that was on a Saturday. It was about the money again. He promised to get money from Gibbons Company, and he promised to give it to me on that Monday.

?He said he could get some money but it wasn?t easy, but he could get it. The balance was $1,350 and I asked him for any money at that time and he reached in his pocket and he gave $100 to me.?

Mrs. Anderson explained she would call Tucker repeatedly and even called Smith to warn Tucker about his debt.

?I called Terranz Smith, who secured an apartment on the Friday night. I knew they were connected because when I went to do the maid service, I saw him in Apartment #3 which was occupied by Mr. Russells.?

When asked to describe Smith, Mrs. Anderson said ?sort of with bushy eyebrows, he?s got... He?s right there!?, the guest house owner blurted out, pointing at Smith.

It emerged that Mrs. Anderson spoke to a Police officer on her complaint about Tucker on August 6, 2001 ? just three days before Police were shown the body.

Neither Mrs. Anderson nor the investigating officer ? who apparently spoke to at least one of the defendants ? knew that Mr. Lee had been dead for almost two weeks.

Mrs. Anderson repeatedly told the court she could only remember some details about her contact with the men, at one point saying: ?I gave four statements! I can?t remember everything.

?There were so many police, I don?t know what I said to whom. This was something from three years ago. You have to remember that this is hand-written by someone else and there are things that are different from what I said. I went through some of this with a red pen ? you know, I didn?t say this and I didn?t say that...?

Adding that she found the men to always be ?respectful?, Mrs. Anderson explained: ?You have to realise, all I wanted was my money. I didn?t know anything about a murder.?

Another person who had peripheral contact with the victim or accused in July and August, 2001 and may have had similar sentiments was Marvin Telemaque, who completed his testimony, maintaining that it was Tucker who signed his name on a Prisoner?s rights form.

Det. Con. Telemaque freely admits that he would not recognise Tucker now, but was certain he arrested the right man on August 9 ? on a charge of obtaining credit by fraud.

?I met Mr. Tucker at the time ? August 9. He was arrested by me and he affixed his signature to that document. And I have not seen him since ? to my knowledge,? the detective told Tucker?s lawyer Larry Scott.

When Mr. Scott challenged Det. Con. Telemaque further, saying that he did not know who it was that signed the document, the officer said: ?I know at the time I saw him sign the document.?

In his re-examination, Mr. Wolffe questioned Det. Con. Telemaque about what happened after he arrested ?a man named Blair Tucker?, saw him booked in at Hamilton Police Station and left him in the jail area ? in all of five minutes.

The trial continues this morning before Puisne Justice Norma Wade Miller.