A JURY has heard that a child was ‘‘terrified’’ when a woman thrust a metal bar into the car the child was in while the child scrambled for safety.
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The child complainant gave evidence in the trial of Linda Lee Jones, 43, and Tiffany Louise Shaw, 21, in the Supreme Court in Launceston on Monday.
The mother and daughter have denied causing grievous bodily harm to a woman by repeatedly striking her with metal bars and also denied assaulting a child by smashing a car window in a failed attempt to strike the child inside with a metal bar.
Ms Jones has pleaded not guilty to having unlawfully injured a car window, while Shaw has pleaded guilty to the same charge.
The child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, gave evidence that Ms Jones and Shaw used metal bars to strike a woman in the Woolworths car park at George Town on January 19, 2014, about 3.30pm.
The child said Ms Jones used obscene language and said ‘‘kill the ... kid’’ and Shaw then hit the car’s back window with her metal bar and stabbed into the hole.
‘‘When the window shattered and it went smoky, I climbed into the front,’’ the child said.
‘‘She kept hitting into the car and it hit the seat a couple of times.’’
Defence counsel Mark Doyle, for Shaw, suggested to the child that Shaw did not hit the woman outside the car but Ms Jones did, however, the child disagreed.
‘‘I remember that when I saw her holding her hands up that she would grab one and the other one would hit her,’’ the child said, describing the woman in the car park.
The trial continues.