A mother-of-three told of the horrific experience of having 20 men smash in the windows of her home as she stood bathing her toddler.

Merate Phinn told Supreme Court yesterday the incident had scarred her mentally.

She took the stand in the trial of seven men accused of attacking her brother, Temasgan Furbert, on February 27 last year.

Mrs. Phinn told the court her two older children finished supper and went to their Grandmother's home next door that night.

She and her husband Philmore remained in their Midland Heights apartment with their 15-month-old daughter.

Her husband was in the kitchen and she was bathing their daughter in the bathroom when the ruckus began

"I heard my bathroom window break, at the time I didn't know it was a broken window I just heard smashing of glass," she told the 12-woman jury yesterday. "After that I grabbed my daughter and shouted 'what is going on?'. I saw the bedroom windows smashed in and I saw another window was smashed.

"At the time I could see glass flying through the house."

Mrs. Phinn ran to the kitchen with her toddler to find several other windows had been broken as well.

"I could not see who was doing it," she told the court. "I was shouting and screaming and I saw my husband running back in the house. I could hear noises outside like there were people in the yard. "No one was injured physically, but mentally we were injured."

In evidence earlier this week, her husband told the jury the group of men showed up around 9 p.m. asking for his brother-in-law and proceeded to smash up the home when told he was not there.

Previously, Mr. Furbert, 23, told the court he was in fact at the home next door at the time.

He said the mob set on him when he emerged from the house to see what all the noise was. When they caught him, they attacked him with weapons including a power drill, machetes, a baseball bat, helmets and a cane, he said.

He required plastic surgery after his lip was almost torn off, lost four teeth, and needed stitches for a wound behind his ear — allegedly inflicted with a power drill.

Seven men from St. George's are charged with wounding Mr. Furbert with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm: Detroy Smith, 24, Kyle Tannock Williams, 28, Damon Darrell, 28, Bennett Phipps, 26, Allan Douglas, 22, Kiawan Trott, 25, and Kiwaun Gilbert, 23.

Douglas and Trott are said to have been armed with machetes while Tannock Williams is alleged to have had a baseball bat. All seven are also accused of smashing the windows of Mr. and Mrs. Phinn's home.

According to prosecutor Robert Welling, the attack was prompted by a fight involving Mr. Furbert and two men from St. George's the night before.

The accused deny all the charges and claim they were never at the scene. The case continues.