The aunt of murder victim Nicholas Dill yesterday described how she saw a man climbing out of her nephew?s window carrying a knife and making a ?terrible? sound on the day he was stabbed to death.

?He had no shirt on,? said Edna Mae Jones, who lived upstairs in the house next door to Dill. ?He was coming out of the window with a big knife in his hand.

?As he was climbing the wall he made this terrible sound like a deep throat guttural sound. I don?t know what it was but it sounded terrible,? she told Senior Crown counsel Paula Tyndale.

Mrs. Jones, of Pearman?s Hill, Warwick said she was at her kitchen window on the morning of Boxing Day, 2004 after hearing a loud crash next door and saw the man, whom she did not know, escape from the window.

?I heard shouts and a large crash,? she said. ?I heard furniture being knocked about.?

Andre Hypolite, 33, of no fixed abode, has pleaded not guilty of murdering Mr. Dill and wounding Stacey Pike with intent to do grievous bodily harm on December 26, 2004.

However, under cross-examination by defence lawyer Mark Pettingill, Mrs. Jones was asked whether she talked to anyone about what she saw on Boxing Day before she made her statement to Police three days later on December 29.

Mrs. Jones admitted that she had spoken with her sister before talking to Police.

?I was told that Nicky was stabbed to death,? she said. ?I knew something terrible had happened.?

Earlier, she told the jury that she then watched from another window as the man came out of her yard, behind a hedge, then proceeded toward the junction of Spice Hill Road and Pearman?s Hill.

The jury then heard how a 15-year-old girl found a knife in her front yard later that day.

Topaz Webson, 15, who lived at nearby Lusher Hill, said: ?When I saw the knife it was sticking out of the ground by the blade. The blade was in the ground.?

Thinking it was a knife that belonged to her family, she said she went outside and picked it up by the handle which she wrapped in newspaper because it was dirty from being outside.

?It was a big knife. The length of the blade was about 12 inches long,? she said.

Miss Webson said she took the knife and placed it on a concrete block in her backyard, but it was not until later that night when her father Everton Eugene Webson spoke about a murder in the neighbourhood that she mentioned finding the knife to them, she said.

Mr. Webson then told the court he went into his backyard to find the large knife, however, it was not until the following day, December 27, 2004, that he called Police.

?It was a knife you don?t see that often,? he said. ?A long one.?

He said there was a substance he thought was blood on the knife, so he held it by the handle with a piece of paper.

?I did not hold it in my hand,? he said.

However, Mr. Pettingill asked why Mr. Webson took the knife across the street to show a neighbour, before calling Police, saying: ?The knife had a good walk around...?

However, Mr. Webson replied that he would not call it a walk around.

Canadian blood-splatter expert Roi Gilbert of Ontario also told the jury that there were three medium velocity impact spatters in the crime scene.

?There was at least one medium velocity impact near the head of the bed,? Mr. Gilbert said.

However, he said there was not enough blood in this area to match a DNA profile.

?There was a medium impact close to or in front of the TV,? Mr. Gilbert said. ?The blood source was above the TV. There is a large blood pattern on the floor.?

Mr. Gilbert said the blood on TV tested positive for the DNA of Stacey Pike and Mr. Dill.

The Canadian blood expert agreed that the amount of blood on the overturned TV was consistent with a struggle taking place in that corner of the crime scene.

A final medium velocity impact spatter ? caused by an object hitting a blood source at a speed of five to 25 feet per second ? was discovered by Mr. Gilbert near an overturned roller door.

He explained that the DNA found in this area matched Ms Pike?s.

Mr. Gilbert knew Mr. Dill coughed up blood because he found a fine spray of blood on the wall towards the end of the tub.

?If you coughed it would create a pattern like this,? he said.

He also found Hypolite?s DNA in two places outside of Mr. Dill?s Pearman?s Hill home, including once on a wall. ?A bare left foot is moving away from the residence,? he said.

Government Analyst Christine Quigley also said she was handed blood samples of Mr. Dill from Dr. Valerie Rao on December 29, 2004, which she not only prepared for DNA analysis but also for toxicology exams.

Mr. Dill was not drinking alcohol before he died, she said, however, Ms Quigley said she did find 1.8 micrograms of benzoyl ecgonine ? a metabolite of cocaine ? per millilitre of Mr. Dill?s blood.

She also found 0.81 micrograms of cocaine, as well as 0.26 micrograms of MDMA ? or ecstasy ? per millilitre of his blood.

?Cocaine when taken is essentially a central nervous system stimulant,? she said, which leads to feelings of energy, euphoria and happiness.

?Taken to excess or over a long period of time can lead to amputation, confusion, feelings of hostility and paranoia,? she said. ?Ecstasy too is a central nervous system stimulant that stimulates euphoria, happiness, and a feeling of all being well with the world.?

Feelings of ?loving everybody? was another side-effect of taking ecstasy, she said, as were mild hallucinations, in some cases.

?This is the only case I?ve seen with ecstasy in Bermuda,? Ms Quigley said, adding MDMA was once used by psychotherapists at ?therapeutic? levels of 0.1 to 0.35 micrograms.

A home-made crack pipe found at the scene also tested positive for freebase cocaine, or crack, she said, while a crumpled up playing card with a quantity of an off-white and a pink substance was found to contain 0.17 grams of crack, as well as MDMA.

?There was mixture of various things in there,? Ms Quigley said.

Another plastic wrap fond at the scene contained 0.89 grams of 87 percent pure crack. Hypolite?s blood tested positive for 0.57 micrograms of the cocaine metabolite, but was negative for cocaine, alcohol, marijuana and MDMA, she said.

However, because of MDMA?s short ?half-life? it could be completely out of a drug users system in around 24 hours she said.

The trial continues before Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves.