Murder-accused Andre Hypolite denied having sex with Nicholas Dill and stabbing the Warwick man in a dramatic interview with Police, an audio recording played to a Supreme Court jury revealed yesterday.

Speaking in a low monotone, Hypolite, told veteran detectives Sylvester Augustine and Jason Smith he ?knows for a fact? that he did not stab Mr. Dill on Boxing Day, 2004 and said Mr. Dill and his girlfriend Stacey Pike attacked him after she performed oral sex on him and the trio smoked crack cocaine.

?I know for a fact that I did not attack Nicholas, I didn?t stab Nicholas,? Hypolite told Det. Con. Augustine and Smith.

?I was struck on the back of the head and then fell down and when I tried to get up Nick was biting me on the back. ?And I heard him holler out and then both of us fell, that?s when Stacey?s swinging. I raised my hand, she cut me on the hand and the forearm.?

Hypolite, 35, said he had met Ms Pike on Khyber Pass Road, across from the Warwick Holiness Church and later went to Mr. Dill?s Pearman?s Hill, Warwick home.

Hypolite did not recall putting on a condom, adding: ?No, I never did have sex with Nick in any way.?

However, Police put it to Hypolite that after he attempted to have sex with Mr. Dill, his mood changed, and he became a different, violent person.

Hypolite denied this, and said Ms Pike swung a blade at him when ?everything just went haywire? that morning.

Hypolite also denied provoking Ms Pike to make her swing a blade, he said, but did not fight back when struck in the back of the head. ?I did not have a chance to, someone was on my back!? Hypolite said. ?I didn?t stab him. I didn?t stab him. I did not chop him either.?

Hypolite also claimed not to know how Mr. Dill died, but Det. Con. Smith told him he was stabbed eight to nine times with a big knife while Ms Pike was ?chopped with a very sharp blade or knife in the centre of her forehead?.

Hypolite first told Police he was injured in a bike accident which he was not sure where or when it took place, then said he was cut by Ms Pike and Mr. Dill with ?a knife or something?.

Police doctor Dr. Jahtinder Heir examined Hypolite on December 29 and found an abrasion to Hypolite?s upper lip, dried blood on the top of his nose and ?very small scratches? to his left shoulder, upper back, chest and leg, as well as to Hypolite?s right chest, abdomen and leg.

Dr. Heir did not remember Hypolite saying he had been bitten in the back when asked by defence lawyer Mark Pettingill.

Police also asked Hypolite how ? if he was the one actually being attacked ? he only received ?very, very minor injuries? when Mr. Dill was stabbed with such force that his ?spine was cut? and Ms Pike had ?multiple stab wounds?.

?I?m not sure,? Hypolite replied. ?I?m not certain.?

Hypolite admitted bringing a knife with a cream-coloured handle to the apartment because he had been attacked ?on his face? before, however, denied bringing another long, butcher?s-type knife, which he said was probably used by either Mr. Dill or Ms Pike because they were high on ecstasy and cocaine, he said.

?I?ve never seen them get high on that stuff and act like that,? he said. Hypolite fled the apartment through a window wearing just blue pants because Ms Pike had a blade in her hand and was trying to come at him with it.

He said he did not remember seeing any blood in the apartment, he was the only person bleeding and his ?cuts? made him feel ?just kind of like being numb?.

Witness Andre Dill, who told Police he saw Hypolite inside the apartment armed with a knife was possibly lying, Hypolite claimed, to cast blame his way.

Between Boxing Day, 2004 until he was arrested by the Police Emergency Response Team (ERT) on December 29, 2004 Hypolite lived in the bushes around Southampton because he said he heard someone was trying to kill him ?because of what happened earlier?.

However, he said he did not want to call Police because he ?did not know what was going on?.

Canadian blood-spatter expert Roi Gilbert also told Mr Pettingill having a cat in a crime scene created problems, he was not aware of a bleeding person going back into the apartment?s bedroom to search for something and that he could say with certainty what item caused cast-off blood patterns on the walls of the crime scene.

The trial continues before Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves.