A Police officer told a Supreme Court jury on Friday that when she responded to the call of a rape victim in 2003 she found the 24-year-old sporting a monkey wrench-shaped bruise.

The defendant in the case ? a 30-year-old Jamaican man who cannot be named for legal reasons ? denies two sets of charges of serious sexual assault and wounding as well as breaking and entering and intimidating a witness in relation to two alleged attacks on his ex-girlfriend in February and May of 2003.

The jury also heard from Judith Brewster-Minors, the co-ordinator for the sexual assault response team at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

She said that she examined the 24-year-old victim after both alleged attacks.

She told the jury that the first examination took place on February 10, 2003.

She recounted various external injuries such as bruises and lacerations and redness on the victim?s vulva.

In the second exam on May 23, 2003, Mrs. Brewster-Minors noticed multiple external injuries such as bruises, lacerations and haematomas on the victim but there were no vaginal injuries.

Mrs. Brewster-Minors told the jury that the victim appeared calm on both occasions but outwardly looked dishevelled ? with matted hair and and messy clothing.

She also told the court that the victim had told her that she had consensual sex in the past 72 hours without a condom.

Defence lawyer Shade Subair had the victim return to the witness box and asked her if she could recall any vaginal injuries in any of her attacks.

?Just because you saw no tears [injuries doesn?t mean that he didn?t rape me,? the victim replied.

She also told the jury that she did have consensual sex ? with someone other than the defendant ? in the 72 hours prior to the second attack but that the examiner must have misunderstood her because she had used protection.

Police Det. Sgt. Stephanie Thompson told the court that she responded to the first reported attack on February 10, 2003 with Det. Con. Shirlene Raynor. She said they were met at the house by the victim who appeared composed but agitated when discussing the sexual act.

Det. Sgt. Thompson said she noticed bruising and fingernail indentation on the victim?s upper body. She also noticed a distinct bruise on the upper shoulder which was similar in shape and size to the monkey wrench found in the victim?s living room.

And Det. Con. Raynor told the court that she also assisted the victim at her job after the second attack. After the woman was taken to the hospital, Raynor said she followed the victim?s father to where to defendant might have been.

She said she saw two men on the ground struggling. The defendant got up and ran towards her then turned and ran away. She pursued him on to a construction site in Warwick but lost him.

Ms Subair suggested that the defendant wasn?t running away from her but was running from the victim?s father. Raynor disagreed.

A former friend of the victim also testified on Friday, however, saying she gave a letter from the victim to the defendant?s friend although the victim has stated on numerous occasions that she did not reply to any of the defendant?s letters during his incarceration.

She also told the jury that she was with the victim when she picked up various letters the defendant had written her.

She said she gave the defendant?s friend a sealed envelope from the victim for the defendant. The witness said they had even joked about having someone type up a letter and lick the envelope so that it couldn?t be traced back to the alleged victim.

The trial continues today in Supreme Court.