Premiership: Footballers' trial witness 'fears for his family'
A window cleaner has told a jury he fears for his family after giving evidence in the trial of three Leeds United footballers accused of attacking an Asian student.
Andrew Clarke, 34, told Hull Crown Court he did not want his family to be intimidated.
He said he was worried they would get a lot of grief with his name having been in the papers.
On Friday Mr Clarke told the court he saw England defender Jonathan Woodgate try to kick and punch an Asian youth.
He said he was having a meal break in his lorry in Leeds city centre when he saw an Asian youth being attacked twice. He told the court Woodgate was involved in both incidents.
Mr Clarke said: "I did not want my family to be intimidated like this. I have three young children and with my name being in the papers they are going to get a lot of grief."
Indicating towards the footballers in the dock, Mr Clarke said: "I'm not bothered about them footballers, I'm bothered about my family."
The jury has been told that Sarfraz Najeib, 20, was attacked in Mill Hill by a group of men allegedly including Woodgate and two other Leeds United players.
Woodgate, 21, of Middlesbrough, England Under-21 international Lee Bowyer, 24, of Leeds, Tony Hackworth, 20, of Leeds, and Neale Caveney and Paul Clifford, both 21, of Middlesbrough, deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Mr Najeib, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire. They also deny affray.
Woodgate, Caveney and Clifford, with Leeds United defender Michael Duberry, 24, of Leeds, also plead not guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice after the attack in January last year.
