An alleged member of the 42 gang who is accused of murdering Parkside associate Raymond (Yankee) Rawlins told a jury today: “I did not shoot Yankee.”David Cox is alleged by prosecutors to be one of two men who shot Mr Rawlins, 47, at the Spinning Wheel nightclub on Court Street, Pembroke in the early hours of August 9, 2010.Today taking the stand in his own defence, Mr Cox said he spent the night at a different club, and later at the home of a woman.He explained he attended the Mid Atlantic Boat Club on North Shore Road, Devonshire, that night, until his friend Julian Washington got shot.According to evidence from police gang expert Alexander Rollin, on Monday, Mr Cox and Mr Washington are both members of the 42 gang and the boat club is a gang hang-out.Mr Cox told the jury he did not see Mr Washington get shot, and left the venue after it happened.He explained he’d ridden Mr Washington’s bike to the boat club. However, he said, he left in a car as he got a lift to Claytown, Hamilton Parish, with a male friend who was driving by.The jury has already heard evidence that Mr Washington was shot at the boat club around 11.45pm on August 8 and Mr Rawlins was murdered less than an hour later, at 12.23am on August 9.Prosecutors say Parkside associate Mr Rawlins was murdered in revenge by the 42 gang over the attack on their member Mr Washington.According to Mr Cox, after his friend dropped him in Claytown he walked to a different friend’s house before going to the home of a girl who he’d met at the boat club.He said he saw another male friend on the way there. Then, he spent the night at the girl’s house until he heard police were looking for him and he turned himself in to Hamilton Police Station in the morning.Defence lawyer John Perry QC asked Mr Cox: “You’re under oath. Do you recognise the seriousness of the oath? Face the jury please. Did you kill Mr Rawlins?”“No,” replied the accused man. “I did not kill Yankee Rawlins.”Mr Cox denies charges of premeditated murder and using a firearm to commit murder and the case continues.