TWO Polish men who murdered a Newport man by launching a “ferocious beating”

on him before burning him alive were jailed for life yesterday.

Kamil Semrau and Pawel Lysonik were jailed for murdering Ramunas Raulinautis as part of 100 years of sentences handed out to four men involved in two attacks.

The pair were sentenced for this murder and an attempted murder less than 48 hours earlier.

Semrau, 28, of Chepstow Road, was given a minimum term of 30 years and Lysonik, 22, of Capel Crescent, was given 36 years.

Lysonik was also given 15 years for the attempted murder of Stanislaw Galeza and seven years for arson, being reckless as to whether life was endangered after setting fire to the mattress the unconscious Mr Galeza was lying on in his home after three men beat him up.

These will be served concurrently.

Lukas Kalkowski, 30, of Laundry Road, Pontypridd, and Stanislaw Gliszczynski, 31, of no fixed address were each jailed for 17 years – three years for attempted grievous bodily harm on Mr Galeza and a consecutive 14 years for GBH with intent on Mr Raulinautis.

Mr Raulinautis was found dying in a hotel forecourt on March 9, 2011. He died three days later in Swansea’s Morriston Hospital.

In the day leading up to Mr Raulinautis’ murder, all four men were drinking with him at Semrau’s bedsit – Mr Raulinautis was an acquaintance of all of them and a friend of Kalkowski.

The men turned on Raulinautis and attacked him and the judge, Justice Roderick Evans said: “It must have been a ferocious beating to cause the loss of blood which stained the bedsit and the hall outside and to have caused the extremely serious injuries sustained by Mr Raulinautis.”

Lithuanian-born Mr Raulinautis suffered brain damage, multiple rib fractures and a perforated bowel in the attack. Semrau also stamped on Mr Raulinautis’ head.

The men dumped Mr Raulinautis’ unconscious body outside the neighbouring Gateway Express Hotel where he lay for around two hours before Semrau and Lysonik went outside and stuffed shredded paper, placed outside for recycling by a neighbour, into Mr Raulinautis’ clothing before setting him on fire.

Justice Evans said: “Even in his injured state, he must have been in agony and he continued to suffer until he died.”

Police yesterday released CCTV footage of Gliszczynski, Lysonik and Kalkowski, captured at Birmingham bus depot the day after Mr Raulinautis was found dying.

Attack victim who escaped with his life

ON MARCH 7, 2011, Lysonik, Kalkowski and Gliszczynski were at Mr Stanislaw Galeza’s house in Livingstone Place, Newport, drinking heavily. Following a perceived slight by the men, they attacked Mr Galeza.

His injuries were not serious but he fell asleep or passed out on a mattress which Lysonik set fire to before the three attackers left.

It was only because Marlgorzata Radziwon, who witnessed the attack but was too afraid to intervene, was there and was able to rescue Mr Galeza, that the pair escaped without serious injury.