The trial of a Pembroke teenager charged with possession of a firearm got underway in Supreme Court yesterday, with the prosecution acknowledging that its case was based largely on circumstantial evidence.Dameko Dublin, 19, was arrested in January 2012 two months after a loaded Smith & Wesson revolver was discovered by police near the former Clay House Inn on North Shore Road in Devonshire.Outlining the case for the prosecution before Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves, attorney Carrington Mahoney told the jury that Mr Dublin was with friends on the evening of November 4, the night the gun was recovered.“We say that the accused had possession of this firearm,” Mr Mahoney said.“He went over to his friend’s home on the night of November 4 and we believe that somewhere around that time, he had the firearm.”Mr Mahoney told the court how Mr Dublin and three friends left Darrion Simons’ Crane Lane home at around midnight, heading to the Gravity nightclub, located just a few yards from the former Clay House Inn building.“It is our case that before they arrived at Gravity, the firearm was hidden in the vicinity of the old Clay House Inn,” Mr Mahoney said.“The reason that this was done was because they knew they were going to be frisked by bouncers going into the club ; they had to put the firearm somewhere before going in.”Mr Mahoney added that CCTV footage showed one of the members carrying what looked to be a pouch and that they were later filmed without the pouch.The group left the club in the early hours of Saturday, November 5 and according to Mr Mahoney, Mr Simons and one of his friends walked back to the nearby Clay House Inn to retrieve the weapon.“Simons went to retrieve the firearm and he was pretty much caught red-handed by police,” Mr Mahoney said.“When the firearm was later forensically examined, Mr Dublin was forensically linked to the firearm.”The court heard evidence from Police Constable Terry Thompson of the Police Armed Response Unit who was part of a three-man team on mobile patrol in the area in the early hours of November 5.The officer told the court how he received a report of an unrelated incident at the Gravity club. But as the squad car approached the nightspot, Pc Thompson noticed “a male dressed all in black sitting on a motorcycle” on the western side of the neighbouring Clay House Inn.He approached the man and then noticed another man who turned out to be Mr Simons appear from behind a nearby parked car.“I then observed the second male place an object under the rear fender of the motor car,” Pc Thompson said.Mr Simons jumped onto the waiting motorbike but its escape route was blocked by a second patrol car arriving at the scene. After the two men were arrested, a search of the parked car uncovered a revolver hidden in a black sock that had been rested on the rear wheel of the vehicle.Forensics officer Jewel Hayward also testified in court, saying he was asked to examine the contents of the sock at the scene.Det. Con Hayward told the court that, when the revolver’s chamber was opened, it was fully loaded “with five rounds of ammunition inside”.And when he later examined the evidence back at Hamilton Police Station, he noticed a single strand of hair on one of the rounds of ammunition. The sock, weapon and bullets were later sent overseas for DNA analysis.Mr Dublin was picked up by police two months later, while attending a Saturday night party at the Somerset Cricket Club.“I was going to turn myself in on Sunday with my lawyer,” he reportedly told arresting officers.The trial continues today.