This is the moment the three defendants in the Wellington Oval case returned to the stadium where they are accused of trying to murder a man.

Ki-Roy Kinta Butterfield, Jahcai Morris and Tahir Nesta Bascome walked the football pitch accompanied by five police officers during yesterday?s site visit for the jury of three men and nine women.

Prosecution and defence barristers, court officials and Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves also made the trip from Supreme Court to the St. George?s site.

The three defendants are accused of attempting to murder Tarik Foster when a day of football finals descended into ugly violence. The retrial jury has already seen a 15-minute film, shot by a spectator, highlighting the public mayhem that engulfed Wellington Oval last April. Gangs of thugs brandished knives, machetes and wooden sticks as women screamed and families ran for cover.

In stark contrast to the chaotic scenes of 18 months ago in front of hundreds of shocked spectators, Wellington Oval was a sea of tranquillity yesterday.

When the jury arrived by bus just before 10.30 a.m. the stadium was shrouded in silence, with just one official seen working at the club.

The jury was then shown around the ground by prosecution witness, Detective Constable Garic Swainson, who witnessed the violence as a spectator last April.

In a 30-minute tour, he walked jury members from the clubhouse to the scoreboard area, where the police officer said fighting had started.

Surrounded by empty seats and watched by the three defendants, Det. Con. Swainson told how fighting spilled onto the pitch, before he walked the jury back across the field into an area where he said Mr. Foster was violently attacked.

The detective also took the party into the clubhouse where he said Mr. Foster had lay seriously injured while bleeding from his arms, neck and back.

After the site visit, defence cross-examination of Det. Con. Swainson began yesterday afternoon. Elizabeth Christopher, for Butterfield, said the officer?s attention would have been distracted once the fighting started because he failed to get through to 911 and then had to call St. George?s police control room for help.

Det. Con. Swainson said this was not the case, and he also rejected Miss Christopher?s claim he was too far away from the violence to see exactly what happened. He told the court he had ?20/20 vision?.

Miss Christopher also asked why Det. Con. Swainson had been given the task of looking at pictures taken at the game by a freelance photographer to gather evidence, when he had also been an eyewitness at Wellington Oval. The defence counsel added: ?When you came to write your statement you had an imprint in your mind of the photographs you had seen.?

Det. Con. Swainson replied: ?I disagree.?

Butterfield, 27, of Cherry Hill Park, Paget; Morris, 24, of Sylvan Dell, Paget, and Bascome, 22, of Dunscombe Road, Warwick, all deny attempting to murder Mr. Foster at the Friendship Trophy soccer final at St. George?s stadium on April 4, 2004.

The trio pleaded not guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent.

Butterfield has also pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted wounding with intent to cause GBH, possessing an offensive weapon and being armed in public to cause terror.

Morris and Bascome have both denied possessing an offensive weapon and being armed in public to cause terror.

The trial continues.