A woman accused of attacking a love rival in a bar claimed yesterday that she had been harassed by her alleged victim.

Shree Candace Cannonier, 27, said she experienced problems from Nina Jacobs since she started a relationship with Ms Jacobs' ex-fiance Kenneth Maybury.

Cannonier, of Lighthouse Road, St. David's, denies unlawfully wounding Ms Jacobs with intent to do grievous bodily harm in the Docksider bar on Front Street on May 27 last year.

Giving evidence for the first time at Supreme Court yesterday, Cannonier said she had arrived at the Docksider at 12.45 a.m. with a friend and got a drink.

"A minute later she (Ms Jacobs) stood very close behind my left shoulder, she had her mouth very close to my ear,'' Cannonier told Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux and a Supreme Court jury.

"She said `I had the most wonderful sex with your man last night'. She didn't say it loud enough for anyone but me to hear.

"It upset me and it took a minute for it to register what she was saying to me.'' She said she approached Ms Jacobs after that because "I was wanting her to realise she had not upset me. I wanted her to know that even though she was trying to get under my skin, I wasn't going to let her upset me.

"I walked at a normal pace and stood close to her and said `I hoped you enjoyed it'.

"At which point she smiled very widely and I said `Did you like the new tricks I taught him?' She replied `You haven't been teaching him anything I didn't know'.

"I said `Oh really, he said to me he does things to me he wouldn't dream of doing with you'.

"At which point she grabbed my left arm. I tried to push away from her and kick out at her to make her let me go. She held me so tight my arm was scratched.

"She continued to grab me, and in an attempt to make her release me, I swung at her with my free arm. At this point she still hadn't released me.

"I remember (Police officer) Lawrence trying to walk me back and she was still holding my hair. He said `Calm down, you shouldn't be getting yourself into this kind of situation'.

"I was still upset. I couldn't believe I would go out for no longer than 15 minutes and I felt I couldn't even go out to enjoy myself without her trying to harass me.'' Prosecution witnesses have testified they saw Cannonier thrust a glass into Ms Jacobs' face.

Cannonier alleged Ms Jacobs, an events organiser with Bermuda International Business Association, had left sexually abusive messages on her voice mail.

She claimed that during a stormy meeting at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Ms Jacobs had told her: `No matter what Mr. Maybury does, he can walk all over me, but he can always come back'.