Whitney Heard Henriquez was giving proof in the high-profile criticism preliminary working out in Fairfax, Virginia. She expressed that in March 2015 she saw Johnny Depp and Amber Heard strike each other during a battle.

Giving proof in the high-profile slander preliminary, Whitney Heard Henriquez said Heard was yelling down at Depp from a mezzanine over a kitchen in March 2015.

Ms Henriquez said she went to attempt to quiet down her sister and portrayed how Depp hurled a could which at any point hit someone else in the room before Depp ran “up the stairs”.Ms Henriquez said: “I’m confronting Amber and [Depp] comes up behind me and strikes me toward the back.

“I heard Amber say ‘don’t hit my f***ing sister’. She smacks him, lands one.”

She added: “Johnny had snatched Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her over and over in the face with the other.”

While giving proof already, Heard conceded striking her ex.

Depp is suing his ex for $50m (£40m), saying she maligned him when she asserted in a paper article she was a casualty of homegrown maltreatment.

Heard has countersued for $100m (£81m), contending that he spread her by calling her a liar.

Depp claims he never struck Heard and that he was the casualty of maltreatment from his ex.

Another of Wednesday’s observers was Melanie Inglessis, who was Heard’s cosmetics craftsman.

She portrayed how she concealed wounds on the entertainer’s face for an appearance on The Late Show with James Corden in December 2015.

“We covered the discolouration, the injuries, with marginally heavier concealer,” Ms Inglessis said.

Raquel Pennington additionally gave proof – she depicted herself as a companion of both Depp and Heard yet presently says she has floated away.

Ms Pennington said Depp alluded to his “substitute self” as “the beast”.

Ms Pennington said: “first and foremost [of the relationship], I wasn’t concerned.

“Towards the end when the actual maltreatment was more clear, I was concerned. I was stressed for her actual security.

“I was stressed that when he turned, he could really accomplish something more regrettable than he at any point expected.”

Ms Pennington said she saw Heard with hair tore from her head in 2016, and that after a 2015 excursion to Australia Heard got back with trims on her feet and arms.

She was additionally approached to portray an image of Heard taken in December 2015, which showed the entertainer with wounded eyes and an enlarged nose.

Asked straightforwardly assuming she at any point saw Depp strike, kick or toss anything at Heard, the observer said she didn’t.