An alleged machete attack victim told a jury how trouble flared during a night out with girlfriends.

Dante Allen said that she arrived at Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club on the evening of November 9 last year with her sister and met friend Collisha Burch outside the club.

But when a plastic drink cup discarded by Ms Burch hit a passing car, what should have been an enjoyable evening descended into violent scenes.

Questioned by prosecutor Loxly Rickets, Ms Allen explained that the two accused, Chanel Smith, 26, and her friend Dyshantee Crockwell, 23 — who was travelling in the car that was hit — stopped and confronted the group of friends about the incident.

The pair deny a number of charges including having a bladed article in a public place and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

“Dyshantee came out [of the car] and wanted to know who threw the drink,” Ms Allen said.

“Nobody answered at first — we were talking to each other and paid her no mind.”

According to Ms Allen, Ms Smith then stepped out of her car and joined in the confrontation before retrieving a machete from the trunk of her vehicle.

“I said ‘so now the weapons have to come out’,” Ms Allen said.

“She [Ms Smith] approached me, took the machete up to my face, and said ‘this has nothing to do with you’.

“It took me by surprise and I told her to get it out of my face.”

Ms Allen said that a scuffle between the women then broke out, during which she claimed she witnessed Ms Crockwell hit Ms Burch with a bottle.

Ms Allen said that she was kicked in the chest by a third woman not before the courts. She also received two lacerations to her back.

Ms Allen said she and Ms Burch were able to escape into the nearby Jamaica Grill restaurant where Ms Allen saw that her friend “was gushing blood from her forehead”.

But defence lawyer Marc Daniels, representing Ms Smith, suggested that the witness was “quite the actress” — and that her testimony was riddled with lies.

He said that the evidence Ms Allen had given at an earlier hearing contradicted statements she gave to police.

He suggested that Ms Allen was armed with a knife when she went out that evening and was jealous of Ms Crockwell because she had been in a relationship with Ms Burch.

And he also suggested that Ms Allen had caused the injuries to her friend during the scuffle.

“All this talk about a machete being drawn from the trunk — it’s just pure embellishment isn’t it?,” he asked.

“You knew you had a knife with you that night and with that knife you got involved.

“And the reason why you ran after Collisha was because you had caused her injury.”

Ms Allen denied that suggestion.

The case continues.