A man needed 20 stitches to a six-inch gash in his face after being confronted outside a club, a court heard yesterday.

Lincoln George Brown claimed his attacker -- a member of his wedding party -- had wielded a barber's razor.

Magistrates' Court also heard that a Police officer's shoulder was dislocated during an attempt to arrest the suspect.

Yesterday Clinton Elias Mattocks, 29, of Happy Valley Lane, Pembroke, denied unlawfully wounding Brown, violently resisting arrest and possessing an offensive weapon -- a barber's razor -- on October 20 of last year at the Anchorage Bar on North Shore Road.

Mattocks had elected trial in Magistrates' Court but Magistrate Edward King clearly felt the trial belonged in Supreme Court.

"This should have gone to Supreme Court,'' he said. "I said from the get-go, from day one, that it should be in Supreme Court.'' Mr. Brown testified Mattocks approached him in the bar shortly after midnight and asked if he wanted a Heineken. He said he made no reply and went outside the club with his beer.

Mattocks followed him and placed a beer at his feet, continued Mr. Brown, and said "somebody will drink it'' before going back in the club.

Mr. Brown later overheard Mattocks tell his friends that Mr. Brown "had dissed him'' and he asked him why he said that.

He said Mattocks took a six-inch blade from his pocket and slashed his face before running away.

Mr. Brown said he considered retaliating by throwing a beer bottle at Mattocks but stopped himself because Mattocks was surrounded by the crowd.

"I was bleeding heavily and some friends kept telling me I could have killed him,'' said Mr. Brown.

The court heard that he received a six-inch slash across his left cheek, starting from the ear, in the attack and received 20 stitches for the wound that morning at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

It also emerged that Mattocks had been a member of Mr. Brown's wedding party.

Mattocks was unrepresented in court and appeared visibly frustrated in his attempt to cross-examine Mr. Brown. He had to be repeatedly told by Mr. King not to tell his story at this stage of the trial and to question Mr. Brown as to the facts.

Mattocks later declined to cross-examine the three remaining Crown witnesses of the day.

P.c. Theodore Layton Providence testified that he photographed Mr. Brown's wounds on the morning of October 20, 2000.

P.c. Roger John Edward Saints testified that he suffered a dislocated shoulder when he tried to arrest Mattocks and was also pelted by rocks thrown from onlookers during the incident.

P.c. Saints said when he and a fellow officer approached Mattocks to arrest him in Pembroke the defendant had a knife in his hand which he threw to the ground after repeated requests.

"I grabbed Mattocks by his left arm and informed him again he was under arrest, he then broke free of my grip and pushed me in the chest with both hands causing me to fall to the ground,'' he continued.

He added that Mattocks then ran off towards Angle Street and when the two officers caught up with him some 50 metres away, a violent struggle ensued during which he dislocated his shoulder.

"At that time a crowd had gathered while we were trying to handcuff Mattocks and they began throwing rocks at me,'' continued P.c. Saints. "I then called for urgent Police assistance.'' P.c. Derricka Eugenia Brangman wrapped up testimony for the Crown by reading out the statement of the hospital's emergency room doctor on October 20.

Mattocks was remanded in custody by Mr. King at the end of the day and will return to court today.

He has also pleaded guilty to a charge of escaping lawful custody which stems from when he escaped from Police on October 23, 2000, when he was due to appear in plea court.