A SHOP worker told a murder trial jury how a man who died after an incident in a Newport street had shortly beforehand acted like “Robocop” in going after people and being threatening.

During an emotional and at times tearful testimony at Newport Crown Court, Emma Adams said she could not believe how Jan Jedrzejewski began acting after she had helped him out of the shop moments earlier.

Called to the Cromwell Convenience Store on Cromwell Road by her nephew, shopkeeper Jermaine Taylor, she found 41-year-old Mr Jedrzejewski asleep on the counter drunk, having urinated on shop items.

She managed to help him out of the store door, where he fell, bringing her down with him. After getting him up again, she leaned him on a lamppost and went back into the shop.

He tried to re-enter though, the court heard, and was trapped in the door as Mr Taylor and Richard Wallis - a customer and one of four men charged with the murder of Mr Jedrzejewski - tried to keep him out.

Ms Adams said she then saw Mr Jedrzejewski outside “falling everywhere, going after everyone”.

“He was just crazy. He was going for everyone outside the shop,” she said.

He confronted 18-year-old Shaquille Crosdale, of Fleetwood Close, Newport, and another youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons - both of whom are also charged with his murder.

Callum Banton, 18, also of Fleetwood Close, and also charged with murder, then arrived on the scene.

Ms Adams said Wallis, of Keene Street, had retreated towards his home, and she last saw Mr Jedrzejewski heading the same way.

She angrily refuted a suggestion from Bajwa Ali QC, defending Banton, that she had seen Wallis kick Mr Jedrzejewski.

Wallis, Banton, Crosdale, and the teen who cannot be named, all deny murder.

Crosdale has also pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice, as has Catherine Coslett, 64, of Valley View Road, Cwmtillery.

Proceeding.