A jury heard in Supreme Court yesterday that a robbery victim?s jaw was so badly fractured that it moved around inside his mouth when a dentist touched it.

Dentist David Dyer testified that he had to ?wire up? the victim?s jaw for five weeks, forcing him to eat through a straw over Christmas.

John Glasgow, 22, of Spring Hill, Warwick, is accused of breaking Allen Robinson?s jaw on December 12, 2003 after he violently robbed him. Glasgow denies the robbery charge.

Dr. Dyer was one of two expert witnesses who both said that in their opinion, Mr. Robinson would have had to be punched with a ?significant amount of force? in order to break the jawbone.

?It takes a large amount of force to break a jaw because before it breaks it actually bends,? Dr. Dyer said. ?The only thing that could have caused that sort of fracture is some sort of blow to the face in that location.?

Dr. Dyer said he examined Mr. Robinson at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where Mr. Robinson told him that ?he had received a blow on the face two days before on December 12?.

?I found that he had swelling on the left side of his lower jaw and he could not bite his teeth together,? Dr. Dyer said. ?Inside his mouth there was a swelling around the last molar tooth?.

?The tooth and the jawbone inside of his mouth moved when I touched it,? he said.

?On December 14, Mr. Robinson was operated on under a general anaesthetic,? he said. ?The jaw was wired together for approximately five weeks?.

The next expert on the stand was Emergency Medicine Physician, Dr. Keith McKenzie who said that at 6.35 p.m. on December 13, 2003, he treated Mr. Robinson at KEMH?s emergency room.

?Mr. Robinson had an injury to the left angle of his jaw,? Dr. McKenzie said. ?An X-ray revealed that he had a fracture.?

Crown counsel Wayne Caines asked the doctor whether he could ?tell the court what could have caused such an injury?.

?A blow of some force,? Dr. McKenzie said. ?All cases I?ve seen like that have been either a fist or an object?.

Dr. McKenzie then said that he referred Mr. Robinson to Dr. Dyer.

Before the jury reconvened for the afternoon, Acting Justice Carlisle Greaves was asked by Glasgow?s lawyer Craig Attridge to replay a part of the court record.

That part of the record concerned a Police identity parade on December 18, when Mr. Robinson said Glasgow was the man who hit him.

?I agree that each of the persons standing in the parade had considerable differences to Glasgow and the description given to Police,? Mr. Robinson said on the tape.

And yesterday on the stand, Police Sgt. Jewel Hayward confirmed that he had been the officer who took the pictures of the identification parade.

When Sgt. Hayward said there were only two other Police at the parade, Mr. Attridge asked for him to be able to be shown another officer?s notes.

But Mr. Justice Greaves said: ?He didn?t make those notes! That would be hearsay.?

Mr. Attridge protested that the notes were ?an exhibit in the case?.

But Mr. Justice Greaves said: ?You are not asking him that one, move on?.

The trial continues today.