A woman has told a jury she found the victim of an alleged attempted murder lying in the street.

Mia Simons said she waited with a badly injured Kuma Smith, 30, until an ambulance came.

According to the prosecution, he had been chopped in the head, arm and back, and lost a ?pinkie? finger to assailants wielding machetes and a hoe.

Harron Lee Powell Evans, 31, Akono Shakir Parsons, 24, and Davon Michael Marson, 29, are accused of the attempted murder ? charges which they deny.

The prosecution allege that on the afternoon of January 5 2005, Marson attacked Mr. Smith from behind with a machete in the Deepdale area of Devonshire, causing the victim to punch him.

The other two defendants are alleged to have joined in and rushed Mr. Smith, who ran away.

The jury has heard that Evans and Parsons pursued him on motorbikes, and Mr. Smith jumped into the back of a moving truck.

The pair are said to have stopped this vehicle ? one with a machete and one with a machete and a hoe.

Crown Counsel Carrington Mahoney said various chops led to Mr. Smith?s left ?pinkie? finger being cut off and his arm being broken.

After this, Evans and Parsons are accused of causing damage to a motorcycle the victim had been riding.

When Rick Woolridge, Jr., representing Parsons, said he was ?mistaken at best? about his version of events, Mr. Smith stuck to his earlier evidence that Parsons injured him that day.

Mr. Smith agreed with Elizabeth Christopher, representing Marson, that he did not know who struck him from behind.

Referring to evidence he gave on Tuesday that he turned around and saw Marson, Ms Christopher said: ?You didn?t see him in possession of any weapons, did you??

He replied: ?Not to my remembrance.?

Ms Christopher put it to the witness that ?assessing the matter in the cold light of day, it could have been any number of people,? who struck him from behind.

Mr. Smith replied: ?Jumped me from behind? I didn?t see it, so it could have been.?

Expanding on this later, he said he believed it was Marson but did not know.

The next witness for the crown, Ms Simons, said she knew the accused men from Deepdale, and Mr. Smith because he was her father?s godchild.

She said her aunt had a house in the area known as One Way Deepdale.

Giving evidence about what she saw on January 5 last year, she told Mr. Mahoney she saw Mr. Smith and Marson holding on to each other by their shirts outside her aunt?s house.

She said Mr. Smith?s bike was on the ground, and he made a phone call.

?He said ?you sent me up here, and these guys are pulling a machete out on me?,? Ms. Simons told the jury about the overheard phone call. ?Then Kuma punched Davon and Davon fell to the ground.?

She said Mr. Smith ran down One Way Deepdale and onto Two Way Deepdale while Parsons and Evans ran though a yard that took them onto Two Way Deepdale.

She confirmed that Parsons and Mr. Smith went in different directions and said she later saw Parsons come back with a machete in his hand.

She told the jury Parsons ?said he?d chopped him?.

Ms Simons said she got on her bike to see what happened and found Mr. Smith in Parsons Road, ?on the ground, holding his head?.

She waited with him until an ambulance arrived.

In answer to questions from Victoria Pearman, defending Evans, she disagreed that she could have been mistaken about seeing Evans run off toward Two Way Deepdale.

In answer to Mr. Woolridge, she confirmed that she did not know Parsons personally, or ?on a friendly basis,? but denied not knowing him well enough to know where he was positioned on the day. The case, which is being heard by Acting Chief Justice Norma Wade-Miller, is set to continue today.

In addition to the attempted murder charge, Evans and Parsons are accused of wilful damage and possessing an offensive weapon, with Parsons also accused of common assault.

Marson faces a charge of possessing an offensive weapon.