The two remaining Wellington Oval trial defendants told a court yesterday that they only took up weapons out of fear and for protection ? not to cause terror.

Wolde Trott, 21, of Paget, and Kavon Earlstone Smith, 25, of Southampton, testified in Magistrates? Court, identifying themselves in photos of the violent melee. Smith identified himself carrying a sword in pictures of the fight during April?s Friendship Trophy. Trott likewise identified himself with a machete.

Trott and Smith both face charges of possession of an offensive weapon and going armed to a public place in a manner to cause terror at Wellington Oval.

Lawyer Leo Mills represents both men. Trott, however, denied that he came to the football field with the machete, claiming that he found it lying on the field after the fight had already started.

During questioning from his lawyer, Trott told the court that he was brandishing the machete out of fear and in order to protect his friend, Kiwon Butterfield from John Trott.

Trott pointed out to Magistrate William Francis that John Trott can be seen raising a six-foot piece of wood as a weapon while Butterfield is seen lying on the ground. John Trott has since been charged with causing intentional grievous bodily harm to Kiwon Butterfield.

With Trott, Mills went through a progression of photos taken of the scene. In them, the defendant told the court John Trott can be seen coming progressively closer to the defendant with a raised board.

?When he was coming at you with the two-by-four, what was going through your mind,? Mr. Mills asked his client.

?I was thinking ?Don?t let him hit me with that two-by-four? but at the same time I tried to make him stay focused on me so we wouldn?t go after the guy on the ground.?

Likewise, Smith during re-examination by Mills said he felt fearful and threatened during the fight but he said he didn?t think he could have defended himself with his fists.

According to Trott the video footage and photographs that caught both defendants in the midst of the melee were taken after the fight had already broken out. Photographer Ras Mykkal Simons testified earlier in the trial that it had taken him five to seven minutes after the violence had started on the field to start shooting.

Last week, a third defendant, Ki-jah Russell Butterfield, 21, of Paget, had his case dismissed after Mr. Francis ruled that he had no prosecution case to answer. Earlier in June, Mr. Francis also acquitted Jamie Ford, 23, of Warwick, of all charges in connection with the Wellington Oval incident due to a lack of evidence. This included the assault of Antoine Anderson at the match.

The trial continues this morning.