Jonathan Robert Beaton, 25, was stabbed to death on New Year's Day in 2010. (Facebook)

Witness testimony and a 911 call started week two of the second-degree trial of Robert Lamb in Pictou.

Lamb is accused of killing Jonathan Robert Beaton, 25, in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2010 in Antigonish.

Lamb and two other men from the Halifax area attended the party that night.

On Monday, twins Cassandra and Chantel Desmond told their story of what happened.

Cassandra Desmond testified she only met Beaton that night at the party at 123 College St. and that Beaton was "in the kitchen drinking his beer and minding his own business."

Cassandra Desmond said fights broke out just after midnight. She said her hand was cut by a broken wine bottle as the fights intensified.

She told the court she decided to leave to go to the hospital and went outside through the back door. She was waiting for a cab when someone came out the door saying Beaton had been stabbed.

Moments later, she said Beaton staggered out the door, and she went to help and comfort him.

She said he asked her if he was going to die, she told the court.

Beaton crawled to the end of the driveway and managed to pull the knife from his stomach.

Cassandra Desmond's friends wanted her to leave and look after her own injuries, she said, but she didn't want to leave Beaton alone.

Beaton was rushed to hospital and died several hours later. Four other people were hurt.

Chantel Desmond made the 911 call that was played in court and included the sounds of people shouting and screaming.

She told the EHS operator that she saw the alleged stabber leave, and that she knew who it was.

During cross-examination defence lawyer Donald Murray asked Chantal Desmond if she had seen the incident, to which she said she didn't.

Friday testimony

On Friday, Megan Pelly testified she went to the New Year's Eve party at 123 College Street with her boyfriend Christopher Fordham.

Fordham invited three friends from the Halifax area to tag along, and one of those friends was the accused Lamb, she said.

All was going well until shortly after midnight, Pelly told the court.

"I was sitting on the couch and the next thing I knew there was a fight going on beside me," she said Monday.

Lamb was involved in that fight, Pelly said. Several people jumped in to stop the fight and Lamb was dragged into the kitchen, she said.

Pelly said all was quiet for a few minutes until she heard a commotion in the kitchen.

She said there were a lot of people in the kitchen, but that she could see someone on the floor underneath the table and Lamb in the kitchen trying to push people back.

She said Friday that Fordham and at least one other person who had come to the party with her were also in the kitchen. She tried to get Fordham to leave but he refused.

But then, she said, suddenly Fordham grabbed her and said, "Let's get out of here."

Under cross-examination she was asked if she saw anyone with a knife, she answered that she didn't.

Pelly and Fordham quickly left the party, and she said they met up with the men from Halifax at a local hotel before parting ways.

Pelly said she found out soon after the group parted that Fordham had been wearing a bulletproof vest to the party that evening.