THE jury in a Newport murder trial were sent home for the weekend today.
Jurors are deliberating over charges levelled at four men in connection with the death of Ramunas Raulinautis, 34, who was found outside the Gateway Express Hotel on Chepstow Road on March 9, 2011, after allegedly being beaten and set on fire.
He died three days later at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital.
Kamil Semrau, 28, of Chepstow Road, Pawel Lysonik, 22, of Capel Crescent, both Newport, Lukas Kalkowski, 30, of Laundry Road, Pontypridd, and Stanislaw Gliszczynski, 31, of no fixed abode, are on trial at Cardiff Crown Court charged with murdering Mr Raulinautis and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Lysonik, Kalkowski and Gliszczynski are also charged with attempting to murder Stanislaw Galeza and inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, arson with intent to endanger life and arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
Gliszczynski’s brother Andrzej Gliszczynski, 27, of Longtown Grove, Newport, is charged with assisting offenders.
They all deny the charges.
Proceeding.
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