a Supreme Court jury how she was stabbed by a 16-year-old.

And she showed the seven-man, five-woman jury the stab wound which collapsed her lung.

June Hayward, of Smith's Parish, was testifying during the first day of the trial against Fredjun Hughes of Rocklands Road, Warwick.

Hughes has been charged with wounding with intent and wounding Ms Hayward on September 11 of last year.

A third charge of attempted murder was dropped yesterday by the Crown.

Ms Hayward told the court she lent Hughes her bike on September 8 so he could ride to Devonshire to see his father.

Hughes returned the bike to Ms Hayward later than the time they had arranged.

And Ms Hayward said she noticed that the bike had been damaged.

While she did not disclose details about the damage, Ms Hayward said: "I couldn't talk to him that day and I told him I'd talk to him about it another day.'' She also testified that she saw Hughes several times on September 11, first outside a liquor store in Flatts.

"Fred came and asked me if I got the bike fixed,'' she said. "I told him it cost me between $60 and $65. He told me to check him down Devil's Hole.'' She said she later saw Hughes sitting on a wall on Harrington Sound Road -- near Devil's Hole Hill -- where she asked him about the money.

Hughes told her to come back in 15 to 20 minutes for the money, she said.

But Ms Hayward added that when she returned and went down to a dock near the junction of Knapton Hill and Harrington Sound Road to look for Hughes he pulled a knife on her.

"I parked my bike and was getting ready to take my helmet off,'' she recalled. "I saw Fred pull a knife out of his waist in my mirror. When I turned around he put a knife in my side.'' Ms Hayward sobbed as she told the jury: "I watched him pull the knife out real slow. When he pulled it out he told me to leave.'' She said while running away from Hughes, who was chasing her, she saw two fishing lines and a knife on a wall.

"I picked up the knife and ran to Woody's Cafe,'' Ms Hayward said. "When I got to the door, the knife that I had fell to the ground.'' Later during her testimony, she lifted her blouse to show the jury the stab wound which landed her in King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Under cross examination by Hughes' lawyer Archibald Warner, Ms Hayward denied suggestions that she lied on the witness stand.

She denied telling Hughes during their conversations before the stabbing that "if you don't have the money, I'm cutting your throat''.

She also refuted Mr. Warner's claims that she was armed with a knife and swung at Hughes' throat just prior to the stabbing.

"If I had a knife at the time,'' Ms Hayward countered, "there would have been two of us in that ambulance. I wouldn't stand there and get stabbed.'' She insisted that she would only become "aggressive'', if someone "hurt me or abused'' her.

But she also said she did not recall making some of the statements she gave to Police. The trial continues today before Justice Richard Ground with Charlene Scott appearing for the Crown.