A WOMAN told a jury yesterday how she was too frightened to leave a room where a man was allegedly being attacked in front of her.

Marlgorzata Radziwon was continuing her evidence at the trial of Pawel Lysonik, 22, of Capel Crescent, Newport, Lukas Kalkowski, 30, of Laundry Road, Pontypridd, and Stanislaw Gliszczynski, 31, of no fixed address.

All three, standing trial at Cardiff Crown Court, are charged with attempting to murder Stanislaw Galeza and inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent in an incident at Mr Galeza’s home in Livingstone Place, Newport, on March 7, 2011.

They are also charged with arson with intent to endanger life and arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.

The three are also standing trial alongside Kamil Semrau, 28, of Chepstow Road, Newport, charged with the murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent of Ramunas Raulinautis, 34, of Newport.

Mr Raulinautis was found fatally injured outside the Gateway Express Hotel, ChepstowRoad, Newport, on March 9 last year.

He died at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital on March 12.

Stanislaw Gliszczynski’s brother Andrzej Gliszczynski, 27, of Longtown Grove, Newport, is charged with assisting offenders.

All the defendants deny all of the charges.

Ms Radziwon previously told the jury she had seen Kalkowski hit Mr Galeza before Stanislaw Gliszczynski and Kalkowski both started kicking him while he was lying on a bed.

She also accused Lysonik of throwing a portable heater at Mr Galeza, trying to strangle him with a cable and setting fire to the mattress Mr Galeza was put on.

Stanislaw Gliszczynski’s barrister, David Etherington QC asked Ms Radziwon why she hadn’t tried to help Mr Galeza during the attacks.

Through a Polish interpreter, she replied: “I am a girl. What do you expect me to do? Get involved? I would not be able to defend him.”

When asked why she had not left the room to get help, she replied: “I was frightened that if I was to leave the room they could do something more to him, something bad.”

Proceeding.