Initial reports suggested the woman told police she asked for a wake-up call at 04:00 local time and was offered a massage by the hotel owner when heknockedon her door.
Dowdle explained that he was not n notified that he was wanted for the grand jury until police officers in the Bahamas knockedon his door they day before.
The court heard that, in his statement to police on 7 January, Mr Kane told officers he had knockedon his grandmother's door onthe day she died before realising it was not locked.