A judge, jurors and lawyers visited the Deepdale area of Pembroke to see the location of an alleged attempted murder where a man jumped into the back of a passing dump truck to escape being struck by attackers armed with a machete and hoe.

Jurors in the three-man Supreme Court trial left the courtroom yesterday afternoon to see for themselves places where the claimed pursuit and attack took place around Parsons Road and Deepdale Road East. Together with Acting Chief Justice Norma Wade-Miller they also viewed a derelict property behind the Jamaican Grill in Parsons Road where a hoe alleged to have been used in the attack had earlier been recovered.

As the trial entered its fifth day a witness told the jury how she saw two men, one with a machete another with a hoe, leaving the scene as victim Kuma Smith remained bleeding heavily in the street with a broken arm and a severed ?pinkie? finger.

The jury has previously heard of the alleged attack on Mr. Smith, 30, who had ridden a friend?s motorbike to the area.

According to the prosecution case, Mr. Smith was speaking to a friend when Davon Michael Marson, 29, attacked him from behind with a machete, chopping him in the shoulder and head, hitting his helmet.

Mr. Smith is said to have punched Marson to the ground only to be chased by Harron Lee Powell Evans, 31, and Akono Shakir Parsons, 24, on a motorbike. Mr. Smith saw a dump truck coming along Parsons Road and jumped into the back to escape but his pursuers threw a motorbike into the path of the truck, forcing it to stop and then beat Mr. Smith with a machete and hoe, it is alleged.

Marson, Evans and Parsons have all denied a charge of attempted murder. It was January 5 last year when the incident is said to have taken place.

Witness Bethann Raynor told the court she was driving her car along Parsons Road in the early afternoon when she saw three men next to a parked motorcycle.

One man was holding his head, while another man holding a machete jumped on the back of another motorcycle and left.

?The person holding his head was injured and was walking westward towards Pembroke Rest Home,? she told the court.

?He was shouting ?aagh? in pain. There was some bruising to his arm and I saw blood.?

She said the man with the hoe walked away in the opposite direction and, reaching the parked motorcycle near the junction of St. Augustus Hill and Parsons Road, ?started to chop? it with the hoe.

Ms Raynor said she drove on to Glebe Road and turned around in a bus bay but as she was doing so the man with the hoe got into a vehicle and left.

?When I got back to the junction of Parsons Road and Glebe Road a police officer on a motorbike had stopped with the injured man and then rode off easterly on Parsons Road.

?The injured man was sitting on the sidewalk next to a rest home and I went to assist him. He was bleeding from his head and hand.?

The court was told two park rangers attended the injured Mr. Smith before an ambulance arrived. Earlier in court dump truck driver Howard Hayward identified a hoe Police had found near the scene of the incident as being the hoe normally stowed behind the cab of his truck. According to Mr. Hayward the hoe was seized by one assailant after his truck stopped and he saw it, a machete and ?some sort of pipe? being used as the men allegedly attacked Mr. Smith who was in the ?dump? section at the rear of his truck.

Mr. Smith had been riding a Kymco People 150cc he?d borrowed from a friend in Hamilton earlier in the day. Damage caused to the bike after it was allegedly smashed by the hoe cost $967 to repair, the court heard.

Evans, who is defended by Charles Richardson, has denied further charges of causing wilful damage and possessing an offensive weapon. While Parsons has further denied causing wilful damage and common assault, he is defended by Rick Woolridge Jr.

Marson is defended by Elizabeth Christopher and has pleaded not guilty to a further charge of possessing an offensive weapon.