name yesterday.

Once more, the 31-year-old construction worker appeared before a Supreme Court judge and jury and denied beating a 68-year-old widower to death with a wrench.

He stood before Chief Justice the Hon. Sir James Astwood dressed in a blue striped business shirt, a fashionable patterned tie and new shoes, with neatly-cropped hair and a small moustache.

It was the third time in two years that Watson was beginning a trial charged with the premeditated murder of Mr. Wilbur Doe, who was found unconscious in the blood-spattered kitchen of his cottage on December 9, 1988.

Mr. Doe lay in a coma until August 19, 1989, when he died. Police arrested Watson and his friend Ricky Nelson Smith, who admitted robbing Mr. Doe and who was the principal witness against Watson.

Watson was first tried in October, 1990, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict. After the second attempt, in March, 1991, he was convicted and sentenced to hang.

But the Court of Appeal later quashed the conviction and sentence, saying Puisne Judge the Hon. Mr. Justice Ward had made legal errors.

Yesterday the jury of five men and seven women heard Solicitor General Mr.

Barrie Meade outline what he anticipated they would hear during the trial, which is expected to last about two weeks and involve around 40 witnesses.

Mr. Doe, who had lost his son tragically in the 1970s, had worked at Bermuda Pharmacy for many years, Mr. Meade said. He lived alone at Hidden Wells on McGall's Hill in Smith's.

On December 8, 1988, he went to the annual general meeting of Spanish Point Boat Club, arriving home about 1.20 p.m. Watson and Smith had been keeping watch.

Then, said Mr. Meade, it would be shown that Watson went in and beat Mr. Doe about the head with a wrench, in one of the most brutal attacks that the examining doctor had even seen.

The jury would hear that money was taken from the house and that Watson later bought a motorbike for $400.

Det. Sgt. Howard Cutts, the first witness, led the jury through an album of photographic evidence and told how Police divers recovered a wrench from Harrington Sound with the help of Smith.

Mr. Tim Marshall, Watson's lawyer, questioned Det. Sgt. Cutts on why he had not taken a picture showing what could be seen inside Mr. Doe's kitchen from its western window.

He suggested: "You didn't take it because you and the other officers investigating this offence knew full well that this would damage the account being given by Ricky Smith.'' "That's a disgusting suggestion,'' Det. Sgt. Cutts replied. Mr. Donald James Johnson, Mr. Doe's brother-in-law, told the court he went to the boat club meeting with Mr. Doe. Going to the club was probably the only entertainment Mr. Doe had, he said. At work the next day he got a call from the pharmacy saying Mr. Doe was not there.

After a phone call got no answer, he drove to Hidden Wells and went in through the open front door.

"I went into the kitchen and that's when I saw Wilbur,'' said Mr. Johnson.

"He was lying on the floor in a pool of blood.'' Nurse Eloise Bell, assistant co-ordinator at the hospital emergency department, told how she arrived in an ambulance at Hidden Wells.

"There was blood all over the walls as I can recall, and on the floor,'' she said. "He was lying on his side. His face was swollen and covered in blood and his eyes were swollen.'' Mr. Doe was deeply unconscious but breathing, and appeared to have facial and skull fractures, she said. He was moving his arms and legs. The trial continues.