'Stop fighting, I'm injured': Court hears from stabbing victim in Manase Fainu case
A youth leader who was allegedly stabbed in the back by Manly hooker Manase Fainu has recalled yelling "I'm injured," while feeling indescribable pain before blacking out.
Fainu, 24, has pleaded not guilty in the Parramatta District Court to wounding Faamanu Levi with intent to cause grievous bodily harm at Wattle Grove on October 25, 2019.
The witness known as Levi to friends and family gave evidence on Wednesday about a fight that erupted on the dancefloor of a charity event organised by the Church of the Latter Day Saints.
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Manase Fainu is accused of stabbing a youth leader in the back during a church event in 2019. AAP
He remembers the DJ paused the music and turned on the lights saying "stop fighting, go home, go outside," while two men were punching.
Levi approached and said: "It's time to go home, not a good place, not a good time this is a church activity."
"F--- you," a man in a black T-shirt responded, he recalled.
Eventually, the men were ushered outside to the gate and one of them yelled out "c'mon see what you want".
"How were you feeling?" crown prosecutor Emma Curran said.
"I was scared. Honestly, I never experienced this kind of thing in my entire life," Levi said.
Not long after he gathered his friends to go home, a tired Levi sat in the back seat of his white Honda Civic and closed his eyes.
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Manase Fainu has denied any wrongdoing. AAP
"All I hear was a scream and a fight happening outside," he said.
He said the melee involving another group of males pushed up against the car door where his friend's leg was jammed.
"Charlie is having a fight with someone and my leg is stuck in the door," he recounted her saying.
Levi said he jumped out to protect the woman who was stuck and saw two of his friends on the floor, covering their faces from kicking and punching.
After managing to close the door Levi "felt the stab on my back," to his lower right shoulder, he said.
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He didn't see who stabbed him.
"I said, 'Stop fighting, I'm injured,'" Levi said.
"I was in pain that I can't explain."
An off-duty nurse treated him before he was taken to hospital suffering from internal bleeding and a collapsed lung.
Fainu denies he was the one who stabbed Levi.
The trial continues.
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