A detective admitted another suspect has a similar description to a man accused of participating in a mob attack, but no ID parade was conducted, a court heard.

Kiwaun Gilbert is one of seven men accused of beating up Temasgan Furbert with various weapons on February 27, 2009, leaving him badly injured.

His fingerprints were found on a helmet visor recovered by Police from the scene. However, Gilbert claims he was at a restaurant with his family then out for a drive on the night in question.

Yesterday at Supreme Court, his lawyer Allan Doughty, quizzed the officer in charge of the investigation, Patrick Jones, about another man he interviewed about the attack named Jahdal Denbrook.

Detective Constable Jones agreed with Mr. Doughty that Mr. Denbrook is a yellow-skinned muscular man, describing him as "solid as a rock". He also agreed that Mr. Denbrook wore his hair in braids at the time of the interview on March 12, 2009.

Mr. Doughty handed the detective a photograph of him and suggested: "Mr. Denbrook bears a striking resemblance to Kiwaun Gilbert?"

"Not to me," replied Det. Con. Jones, later adding: "I know both persons and that photograph does not resemble anything like Kiwaun Gilbert."

He agreed with Mr. Doughty that Mr. Denbrook had a cut over his eye at the time of the interview. He agreed that an eyewitness to the attack, Arya Outerbridge, described seeing a man with braids and a yellow-skinned complexion at the scene.

"You would agree that the individual Mr. Outerbridge described matched the general description of Mr. Denbrook?" asked Mr. Doughty.

"I can't say it matched the general description, but as I say it was a yellow-skinned man with braids," replied the detective.

"But you should have held an ID parade in any event on the basis of that description," suggested Mr. Doughty.

Det. Con. Jones replied: "The possibility arises but the circumstances did not allow it."

Mr. Doughty went on to press the point further, saying: "You would agree that the description given by Mr. Outerbridge is similar to that of Kiwaun Gilbert?"

"Yes," replied the detective.

"That description could match Mr. Denbrook, correct?" asked the lawyer.

"In some ways," replied the detective.

"So on that basis you could have done an ID parade?" suggested Mr. Doughty.

"The possibility (did) arise but none was done sir," replied Det. Con. Jones.

He agreed with the lawyer that no forensic evidence was found on clothes seized from Gilbert to link him to the crime. And he agreed, in answer to a follow-up question from prosecutor Robert Welling, that no clothing was seized from Jahdal Denbrook and he was never charged in relation to the case.

Gilbert is charged along with Kyle Tannock Williams, Bennett Phipps, Detroy Smith, Damon Darrell, Allan Douglas and Kaiwan Trott with attacking Mr. Furbert near his Hamilton Parish home. They are all aged in their 20s and from St. George's.

Fingerprints from Tannock Williams and Phipps were found on other helmet visors recovered from the scene.

According to prosecutor Robert Welling, the attack was prompted by a fight involving Mr. Furbert and two men named Jade Foggo, from St. George's, and Brandon Trott, from Hamilton Parish, the night before.

However the defendants, who are all aged in their 20s and from St. George's, claim they were never at the scene in the same incident. They deny wounding Mr. Furbert with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm and smashing the windows of his home. Douglas and Trott further deny possessing machetes as weapons while Tannock Williams denies being armed with a baseball bat.

The case continues.