There was much laughter in court yesterday when 25-year-old Sheldon Pusey responded to suggestions put to him that he was not speaking the truth in relation to how 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King was fatally stabbed and chopped.

"I am suggesting to you that you are telling this court a tissue of lies," prosecutor Caroline Hay said to Pusey during cross-examination. "I am telling this court a tissue of truths," Pusey responded.

Pusey said it was the investigating officer Superintendent McArthur Sutherland who told him how King had been attacked.

When he was asked if he wanted the jury to believe that Sutherland told him how the attack went, Pusey replied, "my answer is Sutherland told me what I did that night."

Pusey said he did not use a sheet to cover King after he had stabbed him. He said it was Sutherland who told him that he (Pusey) had covered King with a sheet and that was the reason he said so in the interview on March 6, 2007.

Pusey has been on trial in the Home Circuit Court since January 19 for King's murder. King was stabbed and chopped at his home at 11A Waterloo Road between March 19 and 20, 2006.

Pusey said in his defence last week Friday that King was forcing him to be intimate with him and he took a knife, which was in a cup on a bedside table, and stabbed him.

In responding to suggestions put to him, Pusey said he had not known that King was gay. He denied the suggestion that he went to the house to have sex with King and to kill him. He also denied taking a weapon with him to King's house on the evening of March 19, 2006.

Denied bisexuality

Pusey said he was not a homosexual and denied the suggestion that he was bisexual.

He said he heard the government analyst saying in court that semen was on King's pubic and anal hairs and semen was on the floor near to where King's body was found in the room. When it was suggested to Pusey that he was engaged in some sexual activity with King that night, Pusey said "no ma'am."

Pusey said he was also called Blondy Pryce. When asked if the boys in St Mary called him Blondy Pryce, he said it was only the boys in St Andrew who called him that name. He said he did not know that there was a female singer called Blondie. He said he went to St Mary after the incident to visit his baby's mother.

It was suggested to Pusey that he killed King in cold blood but Pusey denied the suggestion. In response to the question "and up to until today you have no remorse for your action?" Pusey responded: "the only remorse I have is to go there on March 19, 2006."