acid on the face of a friend, continued yesterday in Supreme Court.

Dwayne Troy Symonds, of Random Lane, is charged with unlawfully throwing corrosive fluid at Henry William Santucci with intent to burn, maim, or disfigure.

Santucci, 35, of Cedar Avenue, Pembroke, appeared on Wednesday as the first witness for the Crown represented by Mr. Melvin Douglas.

Mr. Douglas said Santucci received burns to 90 percent of his face and further burns to his arms.

Yesterday, Dr. Terence Elliott testified that "the pattern of his (Santucci's) burns was consistent with a liquid corrosive substance being splashed on him.'' Dr. Elliott also said that although most of Santucci's burns were superficial when he first saw them, 11 days later the burns had progressed to the third degree. He said this was "the depth of the full thickness of the skin and the tissue beneath.'' Dr. Elliott said this was typical of an acid burn.

Santucci said that on April 22, at 10 p.m., went to Symonds' trailer home to collect his helmet, some tobacco and a bag he had left there.

He knocked on the window and Symonds called out that he had company. "He opened the door and said `I suppose you want your tobacco?'. When he passed me the tobacco I grabbed it in my right hand,'' said Santucci.

"I was about to turn away when I felt this burning sensation on my face. I had worked with acid before so I knew that sensation was acid.'' Santucci said he ran around the corner to wash it off but it still burned so he continued running to the end of Random Lane. There he enlisted two women to help him get a taxi to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where he spent the next three weeks.

"I have problems with my eyes now,'' Santucci said. "I have to wash them out every day.'' Mr. Mark Pettingill, for the defence, named a number of convictions that Santucci had for trespassing. "Your record indicates you have a problem with permission when entering people's property,'' he said.

The defence lawyer accused Santucci of threatening Symonds because he owed him $100.

"That night you were being threatening,'' Mr. Pettingill said. "You were hostile and loud. You threatened him with the money he owed you.

"You reached up to grab him and at that point he defended himself.'' Santucci denied this.

Acting Detective Sergeant Craig Morfitt, who arrested Symonds, said that on request Symonds produced the corrosive fluid in a juice bottle. "As we drove, Mr. Symonds told me to be careful with the bottle as when he first obtained it, it burned through his pocket and burned his leg,'' Det. Sgt. Morfitt said.

He said Symonds had told Police he obtained the corrosive fluid to use in self-defence.

The trial resumes today.