A car leaving a fight scene was stopped by Police and found to contain two baseball bats, a hammer and a knife, a jury heard yesterday.

Officers said Roger Lightbourne, who is accused of wielding a baseball bat in the fight, jumped into the car and tried to drive off.

Lightbourne denies injuring four men, three of them members of Harlem Hi-Power sound system, after a reggae session at St. George's Beach Club in April, 1991.

His lawyer, Mr. Archie Warner has suggested a gang brawl broke out between a "Harlem posse'', whose system was supplying the music, and a "Somerset posse''.

But witnesses called by Crown prosecutor Mr. Diarmuid Doorly have tended to describe individual attacks after the session.

Yesterday Insp. Gregory Kendall said he stopped a white Colt at the Perfume Factory that night. Inside were Roger's brother Randy and three others.

They were told they were being arrested and then Roger Lightbourne arrived on a motorbike.

"He had obviously been drinking and I observed what appeared to be blood on the front of his clothing,'' said Insp. Kendall.

The court was told Roger Lightbourne then jumped in the driver's seat and tried to move off, but Insp. Kendall reached in and took the keys.

A search of the car revealed another bat, a large ball hammer and a small razor knife, he said. Both bats were shown to the jury.

Roger Lightbourne left the scene and was later arrested at the hospital emergency room, the court heard.

Mr. Warner suggested to Insp. Kendall that Lightbourne never got into the car or tried to drive away, but the officer stuck by his story. It was later repeated by P.c. Stuart Jessey.

The court heard that Lightbourne told Police his part in the incident was limited to fighting men off with kicks and punches after he was hit twice with a bat and jumped on.

He said he went to the session with his brother, Reid Jones, Colin Francis and Ali Smith, and had only three Guinnesses. He didn't know the "Bay guys'' there, only people in his group.

He told Police he was lying in the car after the dance when he was told a friend was fighting. One of his group went to the back of the car to get the bats.

He then walked towards the fighting and someone came out of the crowd and hit him on the head with a bat. He was also cut on the hand while struggling to get a Swiss army knife off someone, he said.

Lightbourne, 25, denied using a weapon or causing the injuries in the case. He said he and Randy were trying to take bats from people and stop them fighting.

He did hold half a bat, he said, but only after the fight when he took it from a friend.

He denied his brother tried to stop him fighting. And he denied saying Randy had "gone soft''.

He admitted having a "little misunderstanding'' with his brother but said this was about Randy "letting someone hit me in the head''.

He went to the emergency room because of a head injury, he said.

He told Police people knew him for fighting, but that was in the past.

"In spite of how people think of me, I was not as they say. It's just sad it has to be that way.''