A security guard told of how he saw a man punch a girl so hard her knees buckled on the night Justis Smith was accused of stabbing a woman in Dockyard.

Elliot Perinchief, 51, was working for West End Security on February 2 last year and was in the Dockyard gate office when he heard a woman screaming at someone to get out of a taxi.

Mr. Perinchief said the woman was raging and got out herself as bikes pulled out and "all hell broke loose".

The security guard urged his colleague to call Police and then heard a loud thump and went outside.

He told the Supreme Court jury: "What I saw was a gentleman punching a girl on her left side of her cheek. It was pretty hard and the girl buckled with the force."

The girl caught herself and came back at him, said the witness, as the crowd tried to break the fight up.

The fight calmed down for a while said Mr. Perinchief, only to start up again. He then saw the man who hit the girl get into a blue car while the taxi took off. He later searched the scene and saw drips of blood on a lamppost.

Mr. Perinchief testified he saw plenty of fights breaking out involving both men and women as he agreed with Defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher's suggestion that the scene resembled "all hell breaking lose."

Smith, 25, of Sunset Mews, has denied unlawfully wounding Shanae Outerbridge, 21, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm, during a fight in Pender Road last year.

Smith has also denied allegations of punching Ms Outerbridge's cousin Hanifah Taalibdin and possessing a penknife in a public place.

Police cadet Aria Marshall, 18, was in the blue car which stopped at the scene and told the court she saw people punching each other including Shanae Outerbridge and Justis Smith.

She said she pulled Ms Outerbridge away and there were a crowd of people trying to fight Justis.

She added that she saw a heavily bleeding Ms Outerbridge go to the taxi.

The case in front of puisne judge Charles-Etta Simmons continues today.