A Jamaican woman has told a murder trial jury that a Nigerian man who denies murdering his wife with a lump hammer at a Dublin apartment, was in the apartment making phone calls on the day her friend lost her life.
However a lawyer for the accused has claimed his client was refused admission to the apartment on the Saturday before the killing.
Goodwill Uduchukwu (32) with a previous address at Royal Canal View, Royal Canal Bank, Phibsboro denies murdering Natasha Gray (25), a Jamaican born mother of two, at the same address on Tuesday February 18, 2003.
On her fourth day in the witness box, and her third day under cross-examination, Ms Sharon Facey told Mr Blaise O'Carroll SC, defending, that she agreed the accused had come to stay at the apartment on Wednesday February 12th 2003 and had also stayed overnight on Thursday and Friday.
When Mr O'Carroll put it to her that his client had been refused admission to the apartment on Saturday evening the witness replied: "That's a lie. He stays there."
When Mr O'Carroll put it to the witness that the accused did not stay at the apartment on Sunday night, she said he had stayed there all day and had been on the phone talking in "his language." She said she again saw the accused on Monday at 2am when he had asked her if she wanted him to turn off the TV.
She said the deceased had been there as well and had slept with one eye open because she was scared.
Mr O'Carroll said he also had instructions from his client that the former partner of the deceased, Guy Mboze, had come to the apartment on Thursday evening and had shouted Ms Gray's name out loud. He said Mr Mboze had then pushed a newspaper into Ms Gray's face in an aggressive way.
Ms Facey said: "That is a definite lie. Nothing like that happened that's a made up story, an absolute lie."
Ms Facey also denied that she had had sex with the accused at the apartment.
She said: "Am I that desperate? I'd rather go to a dog or to Moore Street and prostitute myself. That's what I'd rather do." The trial continues on Monday.