Photographs of injuries suffered by a woman who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death were shown to a jury yesterday.

According to prosecutors Andrina Tamara Smith, 26, knifed Edward Allan (Sleepy) Dill, 35, in the neck after he slapped her.

Witnesses testifying in her murder trial at Supreme Court have said Smith claimed after the incident that she stabbed him because he beat her — urging people to look at what he had done to her face.

She was arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station after the stabbing at her home in Cedar Park, Devonshire in the early hours of October 16 2006.

She was seen in the jail area by Detective Sergeant Peter Thompson.

He told the court yesterday: "I noted the fact that Miss Smith had an injury to her left eye.

"It was swollen and closed. She also had a small cut to her left knee which was bleeding slightly.

"I could see she had red staining to various areas of her body — her face, her arms, hands, legs and feet."

He took photographs of Smith then, and again the following day. The first set were put before the jury as evidence by Senior Crown Counsel Carrington Mahoney yesterday.

Defence lawyer Charles Richardson asked Det. Sgt. Thompson whether the injuries sustained by Smith were "far more visible" on October 17 than the previous day.

He also asked whether these photographs were submitted as prosecution evidence.

The detective agreed the injuries were more visible on October 17, and that these pictures had not been submitted by the Crown.

Mr. Richardson successfully applied for the later pictures to be put before the jury as defence exhibits.

In other evidence yesterday, a Police officer and two paramedics spoke of the scene they encountered when called to Cedar Park in the early hours of October 16.

Police Constable Romeo Allen recalled seeing Smith crying, and repeating the words: "I stabbed him because he was beating me."

The officer said Smith engaged in a physical confrontation with a male Police officer and two female Police officers who tried to arrest her.

He described her "swearing and lashing out at Police officers. She was swinging her hands".

Emergency Medical Technician Charles Wilson gave a written statement to the court detailing how he and colleague Curtis Place were called to the scene shortly after 2 a.m.

He said of Mr. Dill: "The patient was supported by two women who had towels soaking in blood around the neck.

"They said he had lost a lot of blood. He was unconscious and totally unresponsive."

The injured man had no pulse en route to hospital in an ambulance, and was later pronounced dead. Mr. Place said he recognised Mr. Dill from his Spanish Point neighbourhood.

In a written statement, he described him as "a very big guy — about 200lbs".

The Police, he said, had to assist the EMTs with putting him onto a stretcher.

Smith, who is on bail, denies murder. The case continues.