Travolta, 55, relived the traumatic events surrounding the death of his son Jett as he gave evidence at Nassau Supreme Court against a man and a woman accused of trying to extort $25 million from him. The defendants are accused of threatening to publish private medical documents relating to the tragedy. Travolta told how he and wife Kelly Preston, 46, were awakened by a nanny at 10.15am on Jan 2 at their home on Grand Bahama island and when he went downstairs he found another assistant doing chest compressions on Jett, who had collapsed in a bathroom. Travolta said he assisted with administering breathing help. He told the court: "I ran downstairs with my wife to help my son." Tarino Lightbourne, an ambulance driver, and Pleasant Bridgewater, a lawyer and former Bahamas senator who allegedly acted as an intermediary, have pleaded not guilty to extortion charges. Police inspector Andrew Wells has already testified that, after Jett was put in an ambulance, Mr Lightbourne told him Travolta wanted his son taken directly to the airport and then to the US rather than to the local hospital. Travolta was said to have signed a “refusal of medical attention form” which Mr Wells witnessed. The form releases emergency workers from liability if a patient or his family refuses to be transported to hospital. In the event the plan changed and Jett was taken to the local Rand Memorial hospital instead of to Freeport international airport. But according to Bernard Turner, chief prosecutor in the Bahamas, the two defendants then tried to use the form Travolta had signed to extort money from him by threatening to make it public. They are said to have been recorded on tape threatening to sell the document to the media unless they were paid. He said: "Contact was made with certain persons to communicate a threat to John Travolta." Travolta, a committed Scientologist, has struggled to come to terms with his son’s death and sources said returing to the Bahamas for the trial was “extremely painful” for him. It is the first time he has been back since his son’s death He has rarely appeared in public since Jett’s death and missed promotional events for his latest film "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3". The blackmail trial is being held in front of a jury of nine people. Considering that Jett was taken to hospital in the ambulance it was unclear why the alleged blackmailers thought his father might be willing to pay $25 million to keep it private. According to his family Jett suffered from Kawasaki disease whih leads to inflammation of arteries and had a history of seizures. | 
