TWO lifeguards noticed a woman in wrong attire approaching the pool and tried to pass the buck.

Each told the other to turn her away.

This started them quarrelling and it ended with one attacking the other with a small knife.

Zhu Lijun, 26, was on Tuesday jailed for three months.

He pleaded guilty to using a knife with a 10cm blade on 25-year-old Chi Xiang.

He could have been jailed for up to a year and fined up to $5,000.

A district court heard that both men were on duty on the afternoon of May 1 this year at the Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre in Anchorvale Road.

They quarrelled about the wrongly-attired swimmer at 3pm and Zhu went home soon after that when his shift ended.

But he returned with two knives in a bag as he wanted to settle the matter.

A third lifeguard, Ms Sum Chew Yin, 53, tried to act as peacemaker and got both men to discuss the matter in the locker room.