One of the three men accused of attempted murder at Wellington Oval told Police when they arrested him: ?It was just a little fight?, a court heard.

Detective Constable Don DeSilver was among a group of officers who swooped to detain Jahcai Morris at Dockyard, hours after violence marred a day of Friendship Trophy finals.

Det. Con. DeSilver told the retrial jury that Acting Inspector Jerome Lewis had told Morris he was under arrest on suspicion of the attempted murder of Tarik Foster, Wolda Gardner and ?other people? in connection with the scenes of public chaos at St. George?s last April.

When Morris was cautioned, Det. Con. DeSilver told the court the defendant ? who had a hood over his head ? said: ?It was just a little fight.? Morris, along with co-accused Ki-Roy Kinta Butterfield and Tahir Nesta Bascome, was later charged with attempting to murder Mr. Foster. No attempted murder charges were made against Morris in connection with the other allegations, the court heard.

Charles Richardson, for Morris, told the officer he knew Morris had never been charged with the attempted murder of Mr. Gardner.

But Det. Con. DeSilver, of the serious crime unit, responded: ?I do not know what any of them (the accused) have been charged with.

?I?m not the case officer and I did not charge them.?

Earlier yesterday, another Police officer was quizzed by Ed Bailey, defence counsel for Bascome.

P.c. Bianca Glasford, who was not at the football match when trouble flared as thugs brandished machetes, knives and wooden boards, said she knew two of the defendants.

The Ord Road resident told the court she had known Morris for about four years and went to primary school with Bascome, who she had known for between eight and ten years.

After the witness identified who she said was Bascome in a series of pictures taken by a freelance photographer, Mr. Bailey said P.c. Glasford had made a ?terrible error? in picking out his client.

But the witness, who admitted she could not give any distinguishing features about the defendant, denied she had been wrong.

Butterfield, 27, of Cherry Hill Park, Paget; Morris, 24, of Sylvan Dell, Paget, and Bascome, 22, of Dunscombe Road, Warwick, all deny attempting to murder Mr. Foster at St. George?s stadium on April 4, 2004.

The trio also pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Butterfield has also pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted wounding with intent to cause GBH, possessing an offensive weapon and being armed in public to cause terror.

Morris and Bascome have both denied possessing an offensive weapon and being armed in public to cause terror.

The trial, which moves into its third week on Monday, continues.