Court jury has been told.

The statement came from prison inmate Randy Lightbourne, whose brother Roger is on trial for wielding a baseball bat and injuring four men after a session in 1991.

The defence has suggested Roger was a victim, not an attacker, during a clash between neighbourhood gangs or posses supporting rival sound systems.

Randy told the court he found out Roger had been hit with a bat after the party at St. George's Beach Club.

Tension mounted as cries of "the Lightbourne brothers'' came from an excited crowd, he said.

"There was a lot of pushing and shoving and I knew what type of fight it was going to end up being.

"It's sort of a regular custom of people who go to these sort of parties, when something like that happens, to sort of join in and kick and push and participate.'' Randy told the trial yesterday that after Roger was hit he tried to get him away, believing his brother was being attacked.

He denied he had to stop Roger hitting a man with a bat. Roger broke free from him a few times but he fell to the side or to the ground, he said.

Roger was not in a condition to fight, he added. He had restrained him not because he thought Roger would hurt someone but because he thought Roger could get hurt.

He denied Roger hit people over the head with a bat. That was a lie made up by people who didn't think the Lightbournes got hurt enough, he said.

Randy, 27, said all of his group apart from himself had been drinking.

He had been trying to get rid of his image as a fighting man, he said.

"I have a reputation for fighting. Not starting fights, but I wasn't someone to mess with. Roger came up in my shadow.'' He believed Roger was frustrated because Randy would not allow him to defend himself. Randy added he was hit himself with a bat -- on the shoulder and the lower part of his back. Even people he thought were bystanders were giving people a kick, he said.

When they left the fighting was still going on.

He added that he didn't know his car contained two baseball bats when it was stopped by Police later that night.

Roger Lightbourne, 25, of Sound View Road, Somerset, denies wounding Aaron Woolridge with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

He also denies causing grievous bodily harm to brothers Sean Bobby Smith and Angelo Smith and causing bodily harm to Sean David Hollis, all members of Harlem Hi-Power sound system.

He has also pleaded innocent to fighting in public and having an offensive weapon -- a baseball bat.