A defendant on trial for beating a teenager with a stick was quizzed by a prosecutor on what exactly happened that night.

Garrina Cann, 21, initially told a Supreme Court jury she hadn't hit 17-year-old Brittany Symonds.

She later admitted to smacking and pushing her after being provoked.

Cann and Trimeia Roland, 22, deny wounding Miss Symonds with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

The court has heard the pair attacked the teenager after she refused to hand over her cell phone.

Miss Symonds needed ten stitches and four staples in her head as a result of the alleged attack.

She also required two stitches in her upper back and three in her left thumb after the February 2 incident.

Yesterday Crown counsel Takiyah Burgess suggested Cann was lying and questioned her role in the altercation.

Cann had told the court she was at a birthday party on Sofar Lane, St. David's when she realised her iPod had been stolen.

She thought the thief was Miss Symonds' friend Keva Outerbridge and so approached Miss Symonds on Mount Road, St. David's.

She said Miss Symonds was on the phone with Miss Outerbridge at the time, but refused to let her speak with her.

Ms Burgess said: "It made you mad that she refused to give you the phone. It made you so mad that you decided to beat her with a piece of wood."

Cann said no.

The prosecutor continued: "I am going to suggest to you that you were beating Brittany so bad in her head that's why Marcus Fox said 'relax sis, relax sis'. You beat this girl just because she didn't let you use her cell phone."

Cann said: "I didn't beat her."

Mr. Fox is a friend of Cann who was with her that night.

Asked who beat Miss Symonds, Cann said: "Personally, I think Trimeia did it."

Ms Burgess said: "You know you done it and you're trying to put the whole thing on Trimeia."

Cann said: "That's not true."

The trial continues.