A young man who was involved in a fight with his female classmate who cut him with a knife when they got home from school, told the court that she attacked him because he had refused to loan her his calculator.

“A mi calculator she want, mi calculator, and mi say no,” 29-year-old Ralston Miller said when he appeared in court on Wednesday.

Miller is charged with assault occasioning bodily harm for hitting Shanice Watson, 21, while Watson appeared on a charge of unlawful wounding for using the knife to stab Miller.

The fight had reportedly started at a skills training institution in Kingston and resumed in their community.

Miller, in his defence, also told the court that he only hit Watson because she attacked him with the knife.

“She was stabbing mi up and cut mi on mi hand,” he explained.

But Watson told the court that it was Miller who had first attacked her and had stabbed her with a pen while they were at school.

“He stab mi with the pen first and when I reach home I stab him with the knife,” she told the court.

The magistrate, after listening to both of them, ordered them to do 100 hours of community service each.