Imagine going to your lover’s house to sleep and waking up to find a woman sitting down looking at you in an ominous manner.

This was the experience of a complainant who was attacked and stabbed five times while at her partner’s home.

“You know when you a sleep and feel like somebody over you inna you sleep? A so me feel, and when me open up me eyes me see har sitting on a chair next to the bed with har hand on har jaw looking at me,” the complainant said.

The accused, Charmaine Burkett was arrested and charged with unlawful wounding following a fight with the complainant at the home of their partner on January 19.

The complainant said Burkett, when asked what she was doing inside the house, said “ Gyal, a who you a call mad woman” and proceeded to attack her.

She said she was stabbed thrice in her back and twice on her hand, and that one of the injuries resulted in her having to undergo therapy as she is unable to properly use her hand.

“I was asleep and she came in breaking and entering, because he gave me the keys. I left him at a party,” she told the court.

The complainant also told Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey in court on Tuesday that prior to the incident someone had told her that Burkett was planning to “stab har up”, but she did not take it seriously.

Burkett, however, insisted that she was the one who was at the home first and that she was defending herself from the complainant who had bitten her.

“Me and har share the same man and she came there and bite me and me stab her,” she said. The magistrate at this point remarked: “I would like to meet him because he must be all that why you women need to fight over him.”

But Burkett in continuing said: “A me first was there cause me was there a tidy up the house.” The complainant, however, was adamant that she was there first and had not seen Burkett when she arrived at the home.

“I got three stabs in my back and I was already in that house before her,” she added. The complainant, however, contended that she had in fact bitten Burkett, but had done so to prevent further injury. The magistrate, however, berated both women for their conduct.

“I want you ladies to wake up and smell the coffee,” she said after deciding that the matter would have to go to trial. After warning both women to stay away from each other, she told them: “Both of you need to develop some kind of self-respect.

I don’t know why you feel the need to fight over one man when there are so many fishes in the sea.” Burkett, who is charged with unlawful wounding, is scheduled to return to court for trial on April 13.