Ingemann's daughter, friend say they did not see glass in her hand
The teenage daughter and close friend of a woman accused of a nightclub "glassing" attack told a jury that they witnessed no such thing.
Wendy Ingemann is said by the prosecution to have smashed a glass into Tanya Darrell's face in Splash nightclub in the early hours of February 10 2006.
The defendant admits to punching Ms Darrell, after what she claimed to be almost a year of harassment at her hands, but denies using any weapon.
Taking the stand at the Supreme Court as a witness for the defence yesterday, her daughter Shante Ingemann, 18, claimed that Ms Darrell actually attacked her and her mother.
Ms Ingemann, a college student, said Ms Darrell pushed through the group she was with in Splash which included her mother, 37, and her "Aunt Lisa" – Lisa Broadley.
Later, she said, she heard Ms Darrell or possibly her friend refer to her or her mother as a whore. When she asked if an "intoxicated" Ms Darrell had a problem, Ms Ingemann claimed she repeated the words before throwing a drink in her face.
"I found myself being pulled, but I had my hands to my face trying to get alcohol out of my eyes. It was stinging... after I had kind of got my eyesight back I was taken out of Splash by my friend, who's a security guard."
Ms Ingemann said that as she was leaving the club, she saw Ms Darrell bent over.
Later, she said, Ms Darrell hit her mother outside the club before coming over to her.
"She came towards me violently and she told me that the next time she found me and my mom together she was going to kill us as well as my two younger sisters," she said.
"I told her if she's going to do it, do it now so that the Police can see her."
Ms Ingemann said that although that night was the first time she'd seen Tanya Darrell in person, she was aware prior to that of a dispute between her mother and Ms Darrell over a man they'd both had relationships with.
She told the jury she spoke to Ms Darrell between seven and ten times in 2006, when Ms Darrell called her mother's cell phone and threatened violence.
The jury had earlier heard from Lisa Broadley, who said she and Wendy Ingemann have been good friends for the last five or six years.
She said she saw Shante Ingemann and Tanya Darrell arguing in Splash, and she pulled Shante by her arm and told her to come over to her.
She turned around to finish her beer but later turned back to see Wendy Ingemann and Ms Darrell with a bouncer between them.
She told the court she did not witness a physical altercation between Wendy Ingemann and Ms Darrell and had not seen Ms Darrell swing her glass towards Shante Ingemann.
Asked by prosecutor Robert Welling if she noticed a "big gaping wound" on Tanya Darrell's face outside the club, Ms Broadley replied: "I wasn't really paying her no mind."
Mr. Welling put it to her that she had, in fact, seen Wendy Ingemann strike Ms Darrell on the left side of her face with a glass inside Splash and again behind the ear.
"All three of you were trying to get at Tanya Darrell," he went on to allege. Ms Broadley replied: "Tanya Darrell isn't worth jumping."
In addition to denying a charge of wounding Ms Darrell with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, Ingemann further denies possessing a wine glass as an offensive weapon and violently resisting arrest.
The case continues.
