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‘SCARED’ MAN CLEARED OF MURDER CHARGE IN COWLEY HOME ATTACK A MAN accused of stabbing and killing an intruder after three men grabbed him at his front door pushing their way inside his home has been cleared of murder and manslaughter. Rafal Stawski, 34, of Mayfair Road, Oxford, denied murdering Wojciech Ryniak after the victim and the two others entered his Cowley home in April. He was acquitted by an Oxford Crown Court jury yesterday after a week-and-a-half-long trial. The three men seized Stawski as he returned home from work at night and pushed him inside the house with the intention of robbing him, the court was told on Monday. Stawski managed to break
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free from the two men holding him while the third was in the kitchen. He ran upstairs to his bedroom and after a struggle at the door with one of the intruders managed to shut it, before taking a knife from a shelf. Speaking via a Polish translator, Stawski told the court: “I was so petrified or scared that if I moved away from the door they would come back upstairs. “You don’t think in that sort of situation. “When I had the knife in my hand, I looked around in my bedroom. I didn’t want to take it. I wanted to fi nd something I could • Continues on page 3
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