A Supreme Court jury heard from prosecution witness Jennifer Achadinha that a girl charged with stabbing an alleged victim with a broken bottle started the altercation by hitting the victim first.

Ms Achadinha took the stand yesterday as the second witness in the trial of Sharde Donika Hassell and Jahnika Ashley Powell.

Hassell, 21, and Powell, 22, are both charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Janai Caldwell. They deny the charges. Proceedings against a third defendant, Christopher Lima Ferreira, 22, were discontinued by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Michael McColm.

Ms Caldwell, 25, alleged during her earlier evidence that on Friday, May 25 last year she and Ms Achadinha went to the Mid Atlantic Boat Club in Devonshire at about 11 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. where she got into a confrontation with a group of girls.

The court heard that as they were leaving the club one of the girls, Tiffany Smith, threw a drink at their car.

The pair headed east along North Shore Road then turned up Palmetto Road when they realised they were being chased by a white car where Ms Smith was a passenger, Mr. Ferreira the driver and, in the back seat, a light skinned girl, Hassel and a brown skinned girl, Powell, the court heard.

Both cars pulled over on St. John's Road and all seven people left the vehicles. An altercation began shortly after with Ms Caldwell being slashed in the face with a broken bottle, the jury heard.

During her testimony, Ms Achadinha said she knew the girls from primary, middle and high school. She explained after Ms Smith threw a drink at her car, Ms Caldwell stuck her head out of the window and used profanity.

She said when they were turning up Palmetto Road from North Shore, she heard a car behind honking and saw the car come up next to her on the other side of the road trying to "run us off the road".

The witness told the court she saw a white Portuguese man driving and Ms Smith in the front passenger seat.

The jury heard the car kept following the pair until Ms Caldwell accidentally swung her leg hitting the gear shift causing the car to stop at the entrance to Saltus Senior School in Pembroke on St. John's Road.

Ms Achadinha told the court the girls in the white car exited first and came over to them while Ms Caldwell got out.

An argument between the four girls began, she said, so she got out of her car to try and stop it but Hassell hit Ms Caldwell in her chest. She said she also saw a Twisted Tea bottle in Hassell's hand.

"Sharde came out of nowhere and started hitting Janai then Tiffany started hitting me. Sharde hit Janai in her chest. I saw Janai, Sharde and Jahnika going toward the white car fighting each other. I didn't see Jahnika hit anyone. I was getting hit also so I wasn't focused on that."

She explained to the court she was fighting with Ms Smith for a while and didn't see what happened to Ms Caldwell because Hassell came over and started hitting her as well.

When the scuffle ended, Ms Achadinha went to her car where she saw Ms Caldwell sitting with blood dripping from her face. They rushed to the hospital but were pulled over by a Police car who called an ambulance.

Dr. Bruce Lattyak, the doctor who attended to Ms Caldwell at the hospital, also took the stand yesterday. He explained her lacerations were caused by a jagged instrument, possibly a glass bottle.

He also said they were caused by long slashes as opposed to short stabs. The lacerations were on Ms Caldwell's right eyebrow, tip of her nose, her lip, neck and the deepest were on her cheek.

The case continues.