Roosters robber Roger Lightbourne to admit she identified the wrong evidence.

Roosters cashier Kimberley Clarke confessed she made a mistake when she testified in an earlier trial the cash register put before her was the one Lightbourne allegedly stole on January 28 last year.

Lightbourne, 27, of Sound View Road, Sandys, is accused of stealing a cash register containing some $700 from Roosters Restaurant early on January 28 last year.

The Crown alleges Lightbourne entered the restaurant around 2.30 a.m. with another man and demanded Clarke hand over cash from the till.

When she was unable to open the register, Lightbourne allegedly attempted to open it himself. Still unsuccessful, he allegedly threw it against a plexiglass guard before escaping with it on a moped together with accomplice Kimani Fubler.

Lightbourne is being tried a second time after a November trial ended with a hung jury.

Yesterday when presented with a second cash register, Clarke claimed the larger, keyless model was the one used at the restaurant where she had worked for four years.

"What made you change your mind,'' asked defence lawyer Mr. Archibald Warner.

"I was told the wrong cash register came to court,'' Clarke replied.

He also asked how, as Clarke claimed in a Police statement, Lightbourne had pushed keys on the cash register in an attempt to open it when the cash register had no keys.

"What keys was he fiddling with?'' he asked. Clarke admitted there were none.

Mr. Warner also cast doubt on Clarke's claim in November that she saw Police remove a receipt from the cash register, showing the date, time and amount the robbery took place.

Because the cash register was not the one she originally identified, the paper could not be linked to it, he said.

A black and red hooded sweatshirt also came under scrutiny as Clarke identified the garment as the one the "taller robber'' was wearing. She was not able to identify the person because the hood was pulled tight with only his eyes and nose showing.