A woman told a jury she was glassed in the face by her boyfriend's ex, and left needing plastic surgery.

Tanya Darrell claimed she did nothing to provoke Wendy Ingemann, 37, prior to the alleged incident in Splash nightclub.

She rejected suggestions from Ingemann's lawyer that she had threatened her and called her a whore in the past.

Besides being charged with wounding Ms Darrell with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm – which she denies – Ingemann has also pleaded not guilty to possessing the wine glass as an offensive weapon.

Opening the case against Ingemann at Supreme Court yesterday, Crown Counsel Robert Welling said this stemmed from her allegedly following Ms Darrell's friend, Deniqua Robinson, out of the now-defunct club into Bermudiana Road and threatening her with the broken glass.

In addition, it is alleged that Ingemann violently resisted attempts by Police Constable Trecia Rose to arrest her.

Taking the stand as the first witness for the prosecution, Ms Darrell, of Hamilton Parish, told the jury she'd known Ingemann, of St. George's parish, for around 25 years.

She said that on February 9 2007 she'd been to the Spinning Wheel night club with Ms Robinson and colleagues from the Department of Marine and Ports where she saw Ingemann drinking white wine with her 16-year-old daughter Shante Ingemann and two female friends.

She and Ms Robinson later entered Splash around 3 a.m on February 10 in order for Ms Robinson to pick up her house keys from someone. She saw Ingemann and her friends again inside.

"They appeared to be drunk," said Ms Darrell, who described Ingemann and her daughter as "just acting wild."

She claimed Wendy Ingemann stepped into her path at one point, but she smiled and kept walking as she did not want a confrontation.

However, she claimed that when she and Ms Robinson stopped by an exit door, she saw Shante Ingemann cursing and screaming in her direction.

"As she got closer to me I could hear what she was saying – that I'm just jealous cos her mother f****d my man. She was right in front of my face, I would say inches." said Ms Darrell, describing Wendy Ingemann as "looking irate".

"Shante Ingemann pointed in my face at this point and I physically moved her hand away out of my face.

"I told her she was a little girl and she needed to get away from me," said Ms Darrell. Then, she said, Wendy Ingemann threw the remains of the wine in her glass in her face with her left hand.

"At the same time she came around and hit me in the face with the glass on the right side of my face," she told the court, claiming she did nothing to justify this. Next, she said, she went down to the ground bent over as she realised that she had been hit with the glass, which broke on her face. As she stood up, she said, she felt another blow behind her left ear although she did not see who delivered it.

"After the second blow I came up and I retaliated. There was a table with a bottle on it. I took the bottle off the table at this time the bouncer gripped me and took me out the exit door."

She said the bouncer went back inside and she walked around towards the front of the club, and towards a Police car by the Blue Dragon restaurant. She added that she had to be stopped from confronting Wendy Ingemann when she saw her coming out of the club with the glass in her hand.

Ms Darrell needed plastic surgery for a large cut to her right cheek and an injury behind her left ear that broke her skin and fractured her skull.

Under cross examination from defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher, she said Wendy Ingemann had a past relationship with a man named Tokia Russell, who is the father of her own daughter and was her boyfriend at the time of the incident. She denied being upset about that or threatening Ingemann in the past.

Ms Christopher asked: "Would it be correct to say that you've previously given the opinion that Ms Ingemann is a whore?" Ms Darrell replied: "That is what I think of Ms Ingemann. I've not given my opinion to anybody (but) that's how I view her."

She denied Ms Christopher's suggestions that she threw a drink over Shante Ingemann in Splash and hit Wendy Ingemann, along with further claims that she sustained her injuries by falling over on a slippery floor in the club.

The case continues.