A Police officer has claimed that a woman accused of glassing a nightclub patron in the face acted violently while being arrested.

Police Constable Trecia Rose told a jury that Wendy Ingemann "got physical" with her and made threats during and after her efforts to detain her.

The prosecution case against Ingemann is that she hit Tanya Darrell in the face and behind the ear with a glass goblet in Splash nightclub in the early hours of February 10 2007. Ms Darrell needed plastic surgery for her injuries, the second of which fractured her skull.

The 37-year-old defendant, of Wellington Slip Road, St. George's, denies assaulting Ms Darrell with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm. She further denies following Ms Darrell's friend Deniqua Robinson outside the club into Bermudiana Road, and threatening her with the glass before violently resisting arrest.

In evidence during the third day of Ingemann's Supreme Court trial yesterday, PC Rose said she was in a patrol car outside the club around 3.50 a. m when Tanya Darrell walked up, holding a cloth to her face.

"She said 'you have to get Wendy Ingemann, she did this to me.' That's when she pulled her hand away from her face and the blood started pouring down on the Police car on the driver's side," she told the jury. "When I exited and went around to speak to the victim, there was a lot of blood on the driver's side door."

Asked by prosecutor Robert Welling to describe the injury she replied: "There was a jagged cut on her face. It looked to be about an inch long and about half an inch wide. I could actually see white through it, so I could see it was a deep cut."

PC Rose said her attention was drawn to Ingemann, who she described as around her height at 5ft 8ins to 5ft 10ins but outweighing her by about 20 pounds.

"She had a leopard-print bag and matching shoes with very pointy heels, about three-and-a-half-inches," reported the officer.

In response to a remark from Puisne Justice Carlisle Greaves who said he did not know much about high-heeled shoes, she told him: "Well, if they hit you with them they would hurt."

PC Rose described how a male Police Sergeant tried to keep Ingemann and Ms Darrell apart, as they were shouting at each other, and she ran over to Ingemann and grabbed her by the arms, informing her that she was under arrest.

"She said 'why are you grabbing me?' I told her we had to go to the station and we would get it all clarified," said PC Rose. Then she said, before she could deliver the caution to Ingemann, the suspect started to push her backwards.

The officer told the jury she managed to get Ingemann off-balance and push her across the street, where Ingemann raised her voice and made it clear she was displeased. When she repeated that she was under arrest, she said, the suspect "started to get physical again so I pushed her up against a black car that was there."

She continued: "Before she could build up momentum I moved my hands down her wrists at this point because she had the shoes (off), one in each hand, and her purse was draped over one of her arms."

Ingemann's daughter Shante Ingemann and a woman identifying herself as Shante's godmother then approached, with the latter asking Wendy Ingemann to give her her purse with "a slight sense of urgency in her voice". The suspect did so, said the officer, before becoming belligerent again when she tried to handcuff her.

After finally handcuffing her and putting her in a Police van, PC Rose said she returned to the area of the black car and saw a broken blue martini glass lying to the front of the car, where Shante Ingemann and the godmother had been standing.

She told the jury the glass had not been there before she pushed Wendy Ingemann across the street, and she picked it up with gloves and put it in a brown paper bag. In response to a question from Mr. Welling, she said the glass would have fitted inside the suspect's leopard-print bag.

When she returned to the Police station, PC Rose said Ingemann became verbally abusive, telling her "you don't know who you're dealing with, Miss 2297."

When the officer told her her correct service number is 2266, she claimed Ingemann replied: "I know people, Miss 2287" prompting her to again repeat her correct number. She also told the jury that Ingemann's hair was damp with blood.

Cross-examining PC Rose, defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher put it to her that she'd never seen Wendy Ingemann with a glass in her hand. She agreed. However, she disagreed with Ms Christopher's suggestion that Ingemann had not exerted physical force on her at any point during the arrest.

The case continues.