AN ALLEGED attempted murder victim told a jury yesterday he could not remember anything about the attack on him due to alcohol.

Stanislaw Galeza was giving 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 Mr Galeza and inflicting grievous bodily harmwith intent in an incident at Mr Galeza’s home in Livingstone Place, Newport, on March 7 last year.

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

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

MrRaulinautiswas found fatally injured outside the Gateway Express Hotel, Chepstow Road, Newport, on March 9 last year and died at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital on March 12.

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

All the defendants deny all the charges.

Mr Galeza said he knewLysonik but didn’t know Kalkowski or Stanislaw Gliszczynski, but the three were at his home on March 7, when they were all drinking.

Mr Galeza said the first thing he remembered from the evening was being woken by his friend Malgorzata Radziwon, seeing a fire and running outside.

When asked by Kalkowski’s barrister Rudi Fortson QC if the reason his memory was so bad was because he was drinking so much that day, Mr Galeza replied: “Yes”.

Mr Galeza told the jury his injuries included black eyes and his nose and head hurt but he couldn’t remember how he sustained them.

The jury heard Mr Galeza said in a statement he was taken by ambulance to the Newport’’s Royal Gwent Hospital but didn’t realise he had been hurt until the next day.

Proceeding.