His victim had to duck to avoid being hit in the face with an Elephant beer bottle.

Then Byron threw a Becks bottle at her, Magistrates' Court heard this week.

June Hayward, of Cherry Dale, Smith's Parish, told the court Byron was godfather to her son.

But on November 13 last year, while she was using a pay phone at Devil's Hole, he had ridden up on a Suzuki with a beer bottle in a bag.

He had told her: "Bitch, are you satisfied, sending the man up my house?''.

She said she saw a bottle coming towards her and moved out of the way, hitting her back against a wall.

The bottle would have hit her in the face, she told the court.

She called Police, she said, but Byron returned while she was waiting for them and threw another bottle at her.

She dodged again, then picked the bottle up and chased him off with it.

Questioned by Byron's lawyer, Sen.

Larry Scott, she confirmed she knew someone called Sidney Pitt, introduced to her by Byron.

She said she had been told that Pitt's mother regularly went on shopping trips abroad, so she had handed over $300 for children's clothes.

When the clothes did not appear she had asked for her money back -- without success.

Sen. Scott suggested she gave Pitt the money for drugs and Pitt did not fulfil his side of the deal.

This was why she had fallen out with Pitt and Byron, Sen. Scott said.

The lawyer accused her of making up lies about Byron throwing bottles.

Hayward denied this. The money was to buy clothes for her son, she said.

She also denied sending Police to Byron's home.

Det. Sgt. Franz Williams, one of the officers who arrived at the scene, told the court Byron admitted throwing the bottles when taken to Hamilton Police station.

"I was trying to hit her because she had sent the Police up my house,'' he had confessed.

In court, however, 42-year-old Byron pleaded not guilty to assault and throwing missiles.

He testified he only made the confession statement so he could get home quickly and get pills he needed for "convulsions''.

"The Police told me if I didn't tell them the truth they were going to lock me up. I told them I had to go back home to get my tablets.'' Det. Sgt. Williams said he did not recall Byron saying this.

Byron, of Harrington Hundreds, Smith's Parish, told the court he did not say anything to Hayward or throw bottles at her.

He recalled being chased, but denied doing anything to provoke her.

Prosecutor Sgt. Earl Kirby asked Magistrate the Wor. Charles-Etta Simmons to regard the incident as a "quite vicious attack'' on a woman.

But Sen. Scott said the "peculiar'' case had been caused by something that had gone amiss between Pitt, Byron and Hayward, but which the court had not been able to discover.

He said Byron was a "decent citizen'' with no convictions for similar offences.

Ms Simmons found Byron guilty. She said she was not impressed with Byron's claim that Hayward had made the incident up because she had been cheated out of a drug deal by a third party. Hayward was a more credible witness, she said.

She bound Byron over to keep the peace for a year, or pay a forfeit of $2,400.