There was laughter in the court on Monday after a plump woman revealed that she had to sit on her lover to keep him calm after he attacked her with a knife and threatened to kill her, her son, and himself if she left him.

The woman was the complainant in a case against her partner, Patrick James, who had allegedly hit her in the face during a domestic dispute on October 25.

The complainant told SRM Pusey that on the day in question she was at home washing a pot when James started swearing and told her to leave his house.

“A him force me to come live with him and everytime him tell me to come out. So me started to pack up me things and him tek way the pot and say him wi lick me with it,” she said.

The complainant said she continued packing and was about to take her things outside of the house when James attacked her with the knife.

“Him tell me say if me leave him ago kill me, my son, and then kill himself,” she said, before a fight ensued between both of them.

“I had to sit on top of him and send me son go call his mother, and when his mother came, he took up the figurine and fling and hit me in my head,” she said.

The woman told the court that James was very jealous and abusive.

“All when me a sleep him a beat me and wake me up. Him search me phone when me a sleep and call everybody. Fi wha? I don’t know, ’cause me not doing anything,” she said.

SRM Pusey, after listening to the woman, said to James: “Anything go like that? Is it true or false, right or wrong?”

“Me never really lick har, me never really fight har to leave. A she tek up har things to leave,” he answered.

“Mi love har, a mi girl, me wouldn’t do that,” he added.

But James’ response did not sit well with the magistrate.

“A wonder what a man expect when him take up a stone and hit a woman,” SRM Pusey then remarked. “I don’t understand when people talk like that, they are hitting you, but they don’t expect to hurt you.

“And she had to sit on you to prevent you from hitting her?” the magistrate added before revoking James’ bail and scheduling his sentence for Wednesday.

On Wednesday when James appeared in court, he was ordered to pay a fine $20,000 or serve six months in prison on the charge of assault occasioning bodily harm after the complainant begged for him, while pointing out that they were still together.

However, she told the court: “He needs to stop beating me.”

But SRM Pusey told her: “You need to stop living with him.”

She then told James that she was going to sentence him to three months, at which point he quickly shouted out: “Whoi me love her and me ago marry her.”

The magistrate in reply said: “You tek marriage fi poppyshow thing.”