The victim of a brutal machete attack yesterday told Supreme Court that he refused to give his attacker a cigarette minutes before the assault.Ahijah Dill, 26, is charged with wounding Miguel Swan with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in a machete attack outside the Leopards Club on January 22.The Smith’s Hill, St George’s man is also charged with having a bladed article in an increased penalty zone during the same incident.He has denied both charges.Mr Swan, 38, told the court that on the night in question he went with his girlfriend and two other friends to the Leopards Club in Hamilton.His friends went inside while he and his girlfriend remained in the car arguing until Mr Dill interrupted them.“I didn’t know his name, but I knew of him,” Mr Swan said. “He asked me for a cigarette. I told him I didn’t have any cigarettes.“He continued to keep asking me for a cigarette. I cursed him out and said I didn’t have any. He leaned on my car door, and I told him could he get his hands off my f-ing car.”He said Mr Dill walked away from the area. His girlfriend also left, leaving him alone in the car.Mr Swan got out of the car after a few minutes and walked towards the back of the vehicle. He said he then saw Mr Dill with a machete over his head.“I put my right arm up. I tried to defend myself,” Mr Swan said. “The machete chopped me in my arm and I fell to the ground. Then he chopped me in my neck.”He rolled around on the ground trying to protect himself until he was able to get back on his feet.“I started running, holding my arm,” Mr Swan said. “My flesh was falling off and he was chasing me with the machete.“He continued to chase me until I got to the laundromat. When I got there he shouted out ‘I’m going to kill you’. I just kept running.”Mr Swan said he was approaching a main road when he heard shouting that the attacker had left.He returned to Leopards Club, and his girlfriend rushed him to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.At the suggestion of Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves, Mr Swan showed the jury the scars to his arm and back caused by the incident.He said the injuries required surgery, and he still requires some neurosurgery to treat limited movement in his fingers.He identified Mr Dill as his attacker, adding that he saw him outside the rehabilitation centre Turning Point, on a near daily basis.Mr Swan said that he had attending Turning Point because he was recovering from a heroin addiction.He admitted drinking beer earlier in the evening on January 22 at the Charing Cross Tavern, but denied that he had been on any other drug at the time of the attack.Mr Dill’s lawyer Saul Dismont noted inconsistencies between Mr Swan’s police statement and his evidence-in-chief.Mr Swan told the court he was outside his car when his attacker struck; he told police that he was in the process of getting out of the vehicle.Mr Dismont asked the victim about the identification parade in which he identified Mr Dill as his attacker.He it to Mr Swan that the video of the defendant stood out from the others in the parade, that Mr Dill appeared to be further from the camera with his shoulders higher in the frame.Mr Swan said the video of the defendant did stand out, but only because it showed his attacker.“That’s the guy that attacked me. I won’t ever forget,” he said.Daylon Johnson, who told the court he witnessed the attack, said he spoke to Mr Dill before Mr Swan arrived at Leopards Club.“He was asking me for cigarettes and money to buy drinks,” Mr Johnson said. “I replied that I didn’t have any cigarettes to spare and that I couldn’t buy him a drink. It was then argued for several minutes.”He said that he didn’t know the man, but had seen him around the Happy Valley area, and identified him in the court as Mr Dill.Mr Johnson said he saw Mr Swan arrive in his car about 30 minutes later and also saw Mr Swan’s girlfriend leave the vehicle.A short while later he heard Mr Swan shouting and saw Mr Dill standing near the car.“I heard [Mr Swan] say ‘F**k you, get away from me. Leave me alone. What the f**k do you want?’,” Mr Johnson said. “At that point I went up to the front of the car where the door was open and touched Miguel on the shoulder and asked if he was okay.”He said Mr Dill walked away from the area with a scowl on his face. Five or six minutes later, he heard a yell and saw Mr Dill running towards him with a machete over his head.“I saw the same man running with a machete over his head and running towards me,” Mr Johnson said. “He swung past me and hit Miguel between the shoulder blades.“I didn’t want to get chopped, so I went ahead towards the bar doorway to get out of the way.”When he turned back, he said he saw the attacker straddling Mr Swan, who was on the ground.He said Mr Dill swung at Mr Swan another six times before he wriggled away and ran from the area.Mr Dismont questioned why Mr Johnson didn’t tell police he spoke with Mr Dill. Mr Johnson responded: “I mentioned that he was being a pest in my statement and asking people for cigarettes.”He said that he had two drinks while at Leopards Club and had not been to other bars earlier that night.The trial is set to continue today.