A Pembroke man sliced open a friend's nose with a golf club and set his Pit Bull dog on him in a dispute over a marijuana spliff, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

Terrence Webb, 37, required surgery to correct the damage to his face after he was allegedly attacked by Nikia Javon Burchall, in Court Street, Hamilton, in the early hours of February 14 last year.

Mr. Webb said he met Burchall, whom he knew, outside of Roosters fast food shop around 1 a.m. and asked him for a `draw' of the spliff Burchall had in his mouth.

He said he did not have a light so he asked Eric Dunkley, who was in a taxi, to light it for him.

But Mr Webb, of South Shore, Paget, told the jury Mr. Dunkley drove off in the cab with the drug before tossing it out of the window.

Mr. Webb said he asked his cousin Ricky Wilson to retrieve the spliff but when he gave it back to Burchall, 25, the defendant kept shouting that it was not the same one he gave him.

"It was like a verbal argument in the beginning,'' said Mr. Webb. "I was telling Nikia `that's the same thing you gave me,' but he kept saying `that's not what I gave you'.

"I kind of thought he was looking for trouble after that, that he was trying to start something, so I ignored him and walked across the street with my order (of food) at the Universal Barber Shop and sat on the stairs.

"He was outside Roosters shouting a lot of loud stuff, then he disappeared.

"About 10 or 15 minutes later he came back from Spinning Wheel towards where I was sitting. He was opposite the road then he just appeared in my face.

"When he first approached he was talking to me and Ricky was intervening. He had a Pit Bull and a golf club.

"He took the club and smacked Ricky outside his helmet a few times. He started going off on him because he was the one talking to him and I was more or less ignoring him.

"Ricky got up and ran and left me. I told him I'm pretty sure we can work this out with $50 or $100 for the spliff, and he said he was not working out anything.

"I was still eating my food, that's when he swung the golf club and struck me on the nose. It struck me on the nose and hand and knocked the food out of my hand.

"I got up and put my arm around him and tried to compromise with him before anything else went down.

Court hears of club attack "I had my arm around him as we walked towards Zaki's Bakery. When I saw he didn't want to compromise, I turned and walked away from him. That's when he struck me on the back of the head with the golf club.

"When I regained consciousness, the dog was all over me. Two other people must have come from the other side of the street.

"They didn't know what was going on, but they were helping Nikia to assault me, kicking and punching me on the ground.

"When I came round and got up to my feet, everyone scattered. I walked towards St. Paul's Church and felt a warm feeling on my face and realised I was bleeding excessively.'' Mr. Webb was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where he stayed for five nights and was treated for a cracked cheekbone, a nose which was hanging open, a cut to the back of the head and contusions to his body.

Mr. Webb said he had several dog bite marks on his body, but Dr. Roslyn Bascombe-Adams of the emergency department at the hospital made no mention of dog bites in her report to the court.

Burchall, of Middletown Road, denies unlawful wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and will give evidence today.