A jury in state Circuit Court watched a video Friday of accused murderer Joshua Williams telling police how he and another man killed Jamil Khan, dismembered the body, placed the pieces into trash bags and disposed of the bags into a city trash bin.

Williams, 27, is on trial for second-degree murder for Khan’s April 7, 2010, disappearance and death. He has said he killed Khan in self-defense.

Police have not recovered the body of the 24-year-old Khan.

The other man, Michael Connolly, 25, is scheduled to stand trial for murder in February.

As jurors watched the video, the gray trash bin police recovered from Williams’ Makakilo home sat in front of them, placed in the courtroom by the prosecutor.

Judge Karen Ahn ordered the prosecutor to remove sections of the video in which Williams talks about the smell of Khan’s corpse and describes in detail how he cut off Khan’s head, arms and legs. But the jurors still heard Williams tell police he used a handsaw to dismember Khan’s body and describe Khan’s condition after saying Connolly hit him 10 times in the head with a hammer.

The three were partners in an indoor marijuana-growing operation.

Throughout the police interview, Williams kept saying he and Connolly had no choice but to kill Khan because he had been threatening to kill both of them.

Williams said Khan also talked about killing Americans and of his support for the terrorists fighting the Americans in Afghanistan.

"He said he wants me to be raided so that he can have a chance, he wants to kill cops, he wants to blow up the police station, he wanted to blow up Pearlridge, he wanted to do this," Williams said on the video.

He said Khan manipulated him and Connolly into starting the growing operation together and that once they were involved, threatened to kill them and their families if they went to police.

Williams said the 31/2 years he was involved with Khan was a nightmare. He said he didn’t report Khan’s beatings and threats, sometimes with a loaded AK-47 rifle pointed at him, because he didn’t think anyone would believe him.

"On my best day, I could not make this up," he said.

On the day Williams said he and Connolly killed Khan, he said Kahn entered his home and immediately started to raise his AK-47 toward Connolly. Williams said he grabbed Khan and the gun, "And Mike hit him. Mike hit him. I told Mike ‘Hit him, f—— hit him.’"

During the struggle, Williams said he punched Khan twice and kicked him twice.

"I only did this because I felt that (Khan) was going to shoot Mike and turn around and shoot me, too," he said.

Williams also told police that after he and Connolly killed Khan, he drove Khan’s sport utility vehicle to Waipahu and set it on fire.

After the jurors watched the video, John Schum, one of Williams’ lawyers, asked Derrick Kiyotoki, one of two Honolulu Police Department detectives who conducted the videotaped interview, whether Williams was being cooperative with their investigation.

"My opinion is he could have not told the entire truth," Kiyotoki said.