"I just saw red. I was covered in blood. It was very warm and pulsating. It was pretty much all over but the one on my cheek was hanging so that's the one I felt the most."

Twenty-five year-old Janai Caldwell was describing what she saw after feeling a blow to her face in an attack last year that left her with scars on her right cheek, nose and neck in Supreme Court yesterday.

She alleges that on Friday, May 25 last year, she and a friend, Jennifer Achadinha went to the Mid Atlantic Boat Club in Devonshire at about 11 to 11.30 p.m.

Ms Caldwell, from Suffering Lane, St. George's said while on the dance floor she was approached by a girl she did not know, who told her to stop bumping her friend.

She did not know the girl and didn't realise she had bumped anyone and at 2 a.m. both she and Ms Achadinha left the club because a fight had broken out in the parking lot.

As they left the club the group of girls from the club were heckling them and after getting into Ms Achadinha's car, an Opel, one of the girls threw a drink on the hood of the car.

Ms Achadinha however continued driving, and when the two friends got to Palmetto Road near the incinerator they noticed a car following them.

Fearing for her safety, Ms Caldwell said they turned the car around to make it to the 24-hour gas station.

However, Ms Achadinha and Ms Caldwell stopped just before the entrance of Saltus Senior School in Pembroke on Langton Hill and the pursuing car stopped about two to three feet behind them.

According to Ms Caldwell she got out of the Opel as did three girls (in the other car) who had been at the club.

Ms Caldwell claimed a light-skinned girl - because the identity of those involved is still in dispute - shoved her and when Ms Caldwell went to push her back, a second person grabbed her hair, she told the court.

She said her arms were restrained and that's when she felt a blow to her head. She could feel the blood on her face so she went to Ms Achadinha's car to see what had happened.

As they were driving directly to the hospital, they were stopped by Police because for speeding.

Noticing the blood on her face, the officers called an ambulance and Ms Caldwell was taken to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where she had to wait overnight to receive stitches to her wound.

But defence lawyer, Rick Woolridge who is representing Sharde Donika Hassell one of two defendants, argued that Ms Caldwell had been the aggressor and that his client was defending herself.

Haskell, 21, and Jahnika Ashley Powell, 22, are both charged with causing grievous bodily harm. They deny the charges. Proceedings against a third defendant, Christopher Lima Ferreira, 22, were discontinued by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Michael McColm.

Saying that Hassell was much smaller then her, to which Ms Caldwell agreed, Mr. Woolridge put it to her that when she got out of the Opel, she approached Hassell and struck her.

He put it to her that she had been on top of Hassell and that the only way she could get up was to grab a broken bottle.

She said she did not agree, but Mr. Woolridge continued asking why then had Ms Achadinha stopped the car if not to fight.

Continuing to deny asking her friend to stop the car, defence lawyer Charles Richardson stood to represent the second defendant, Powell.

Mr. Richardson asked her why in her statement given to Police on Saturday, May 26 at 8.30 a.m. did she tell her friend to stop the car because she was sick of it.

He put it to her that she knew there was going to be a confrontation. Ms Caldwell said: "The reason I told her to stop the car was because if we had continued I believed we would have gotten into an accident."

But Mr. Richardson asked her why, if she had a cell phone, didn't she call Police. Ms Caldwell said she thought the Police would have taken too long to get there.

The case continues.