A young man who burst a woman’s head with a stone claimed he attacked her because she was always looking at him and smiling and calling him “dutty ackee picka.”

Akin Creary, 18, of August Town in St Andrew, was hauled before the court on a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm to which he pleaded guilty.

On Wednesday when the matter was heard before RM Pusey the complainant told the court that Creary had been a nuisance to her since she moved into the community in the last seven months.

“Everytime him see me him a cuss and ask me why me look on me and me not even see him,” she said.

But the complainant said she was afraid to report the matter as Creary was always telling her that he is not afraid of the police.

However, she said that on the day of the incident she was standing in the community talking to her neighbour when he passed and saw her and started accusing her of looking at him, but was restrained.

The complainant said she walked away and went home but Creary followed her and threw several stones, one of which hit her in the head causing a wound and bleeding.

She reported the matter and he was charged with unlawful wounding.

But Creary in his defence told RM Pusey that the complainant had pulled a knife at him and had stabbed at him with the weapon.

According to him he went to her home to make a complaint to her mother and saw her putting the knife in her bosom.

Creary then told the magistrate that the complainant was always calling him “dutty ackee picka”.

“Everytime she see me she a smile and called me dutty ackee picka,” he said.

“She troubling me cause I am a young man picking ackee, but I chose to pick ackee for my daughter because I want a better life for her,” he added.

“So because she smiling, you think she is smiling at you?” RM Pusey asked.

“Yes I feel so because I pick ackee,” Creary replied.

The magistrate then told Creary that if he was ashamed of what he did for a living he should not blamed others for it.

“You need to control your faculties, you can’t take up stones and burst people head because they’re looking at you,” she told him.

The magistrate then asked Creary if he liked the complainant.

“I don’t really like her, she is my cousin,” he said while pointing out that his mother had told him so.

But the complainant, who was surprised by his revelation, quickly told the court that she had no knowledge of them being related.

Creary then told the complainant that he was sorry but RM Pusey told him that it was still going to cost him $10,000 or six months in prison.