A 21-year-old club-goer said Police failed to prevent the injuries of the young man who was allegedly hurt with a stun gun near Escape nightclub two weekends ago.

The young man, who was at the nightclub, claims that while Police did arrive quickly at the scene and called for reinforcements, the officers either sat in their vehicles or stood to the side for around 30 to 45 minutes.

He said: "They just sat in their cars doing nothing until people started leaving."

"I asked the Police several times, `Why don't you stop it, stop this?' and they just told me to shut up.

"Then I started pulling guys off of each other myself since they weren't doing anything. Again they told me to shut up and told me to move out of the way."

This witness said the Police definitely could have prevented the fight from escalating. Instead, he said they allowed boys from "town" to chase Jermaine (Mayonnaise) Lovell around the corner and beat him up.

"That guy could have died and they didn't even care," he said.

Police spokesman Dwayne Caines said: "The Police took what we considered appropriate action. There were enough officers deployed to deal with the situation. Arrests were made and these men will be brought before the courts. We did what we felt was necessary."

Security manager Freedom Burrows denied claims of Police negligence, saying: "The Police did an excellent job. You can't expect the first officers on the scene to be able to fix the problem entirely against 30 or 40 people fighting. They handled the situation the best they could. Reinforcements shortly arrived and that's when the situation was completely dissolved. I don't want anything bad written about them because they were great."

He added: "They've given us some ideas on how to improve security at the club. They've even offered to help us train some of our staff with security management".

A third witness to the incident said she was let out the back and did not know anything about the Police's actions. However, she said she found Mr. Lovell lying on his back and his face bloodied. "I thought he was dead and I just started crying," she said. "But then he struggled up and was helped to the ambulance."