A DAY of drinking resulted in an alleged stabbing in Ammanford, a court heard today (November 15).

Shaunagh Downing, 22, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court where she denies two charges of wounding and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.

The court heard that the incident happened at Dol y Dderwen Gardens on July 3, this year.

Victim Daniel Jonas, 19, spoke via video link where he recalled the events of the morning and the night prior.

He admitted to prosecutor Ms Randall that he had been drinking at the town’s Cottage pub from around 3pm the previous day (Saturday, July 2).

He was with friend Shanae and a group of others, including the defendant, and they moved on to Bar 1 across the road later that night.

He said that he had left around 3am and had been drinking all day, and had taken a ‘small amount’ of cocaine and had some cannabis.

When he left, he and Shanae returned to his home.

He admitted that he instigated an exchange of text and voice messages with the defendant using Snapchat, which the court heard.

He agreed that the messages he sent – which included talk about the defendant’s sex life and her private parts – were as defence barrister Mr Hartson described “offensive” and that he was being provocative.

He said how he became concerned when the defendant threatened to come to his house and hurt his family, but also said he didn’t believe she would do so.

Mr Jonas told the court that Downing had knocked on the door and he told her to go to the side gate as he said he didn’t want to wake his family.

He told the court that as he was opening the side gate, Downing pushed the gate and stabbed him in the ribs.

He said he tried to grab the knife off her, which he was successful in doing, and while he did so, he gained cuts to his right hand from holding the blade - and that Downing had bitten him twice on the arm.

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He told the court that he threw the knife over her and that she turned and left.

He returned to the house and spoke with Shanae in the kitchen and said they were going to go to her house, so he packed a bag and the pair left.

Around five minutes after leaving, he said he started to feel faint and had passed out on a bench, as the next thing he remembered was waking up in hospital.

When cross-examined by Mr Hartson, he said that inconsistencies between his police statement and the testimony given in court – which included how the bite marks were received and what knife was alleged to have been used – were due to his memory being hazy as he had drunk quite a bit and taken drugs on the night. and his memory had become clearer since.

He also said that the reason he went to go to Shanae’s rather than going to the hospital was because he thought the blood on his shirt was from the cuts to his hand, and later that he didn’t think the wound on his ribs was serious as he thought it was just like the cuts to his hand.

He denied the defence’s claim that Downing was acting in self defence. and that the knife was in fact his.

Mr Hartson said that Mr Jonas had gripped Downing by the neck and that she had bitten him to try and get him off her.

The court was shown a number of bruises and marks on Downing, as well as the injuries sustained by Mr Jonas.

Mr Jonas admitted he gripped Downing on the wrist when trying to get the knife from her, but denied causing injury.

Shanae took to the stand and told the court that she agreed the messages weren’t very nice, and that she heard what she said was Downing saying “Dan, give me the knife so I can go home.”

She said how she went to go outside after hearing this and met Dan on his way back.

She said how he had a bloody nose and some blood on his shirt and he told her that she had stabbed him.

On cross-examination, Mr Hartson asked if Mr Jonas had told her what to say, which she denied, and why in her police statement taken just hours after the incident is alleged to have happened, that she had said Mr Jonas said ‘nothing’ when asked what happened.

She said this was due to her memory being hazy as she had not had sleep.

She also told the court how, as they were walking, Mr Jonas had said he was feeling dizzy and had fallen into her.

She said she called one of his friends who lived nearby who came to help her get him to a bench, where she said he lost consciousness, and they called an ambulance and began CPR under guidance of the operator.

The trial resumes on November 16 at 10.30am.