The driver said he did not see Jonathan Majors hit his ex-girlfriend at the car service

Metro

E Ben Kochman

The lone witness at the center of the domestic assault case against actor Jonathan Majors testified in Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday as the trial began.

Naweed Sarwar, the driver of the black SUV in which the star of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is accused of attacking his then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, told the the jury did not see the great conflict of March 25 because of him. see “straight ahead” on the road.

But Sarwar, speaking through an Urdu interpreter who used broken English, admitted he had a “feeling” that Jabbari, a British dancer and movement teacher, was the man. stir up trouble.

The driver got “a feeling that the girl hit the boy… because of the way she was fighting, and the noises that were heard.”

Sarwar did not elaborate on the voice that led him to believe that Jabbari “hit” Majors during the private car ride from the dinner in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, over the Manhattan Bridge and on his way home. Chelsea rental “Creed III”.

But Sarwar said he saw Majors push Jabbari into the car as it pulled up on Center and Canal Streets in Chinatown after the brawl — part of which was caught on surveillance cameras. .

“He tried to throw her into the car,” he testified. “He said, ‘Leave me alone.’ I have to go.'”

The driver also testified several times that Majors was “trying to get rid of” Jabbari, even though Judge Michael Gaffey pleaded with him to just “witness what was going on, not what you think happened.”

Jabbari, 30, testified that the incident happened when he snatched Majors’ phone after receiving evidence that he was allegedly cheating on her – a text from another woman wrote “I wish I could kiss you.”

During cross-examination by Majors’ attorneys, Sarwar testified that no blood could be found in the back seat of the black Cadillac Escalade after the couple left the car.

Majors, 34, wearing a gray double-breasted suit and holding a gold-leaf Bible at the defense table, smiled during the driver’s testimony.

Later on Monday, the doctor who treated Jabbari at Bellevue Hospital after the attack confirmed that the dancer’s broken right index finger and cut behind his right ear were “identical” to his said that Majors had attacked him.

But on the research, Dr. William Chiang said that in most cases, someone who suffers from the area of ​​the ear and head where Jabbari said he was hit will bleed quickly.

Majors, who has denied wrongdoing, has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of assault and disorderly conduct, which could cost him up to a year in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors plan to wrap up their case Tuesday with a final witness, an expert on “domestic violence.”

Majors’ attorneys then plan to call counter-witnesses.

It was unclear Monday night whether Majors would testify in his own defense.