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'Buried' Huddersfield woman relives her ordeal Buried Huddersfield woman 'used diamond ring to escape'
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A mother has told how she was attacked with a Taser by her partner before being buried in a cardboard box. A woman who was buried alive in a cardboard box has told a jury she used her diamond engagement ring to free herself.
Michelina Lewandowska, 27, feared she was going to pass out as she was attacked with the stun gun in the home she shared with Marcin Kasprzak. Michelina Lewandowska, 27, said she prayed as she tried to free herself in woodland near Huddersfield on 28 May.
She was then put in a car boot before being dumped in a shallow grave. Ms Lewandowska told Leeds Crown Court she was first attacked with a Taser stun gun in the home she shared with Marcin Kasprzak, 25.
Mr Kasprzak, 25, and Patryk Borys, 18, both from Huddersfield, appeared at Leeds Crown Court to deny attempted murder. Mr Kasprzak and Patryk Borys, 18, from Huddersfield, deny attempted murder.
'Kicked' by Taser Ms Lewandowska told the jury how she had been placed in the box by her partner, with whom she has a three-year-old son, after he attacked her with the 300,000 volt Taser at their home in Huddersfield and bound and gagged her with tape.
Miss Lewandowska told the jury she was grabbed by her partner, with whom she has a three-year-old son, and forced to the floor in May this year. Heard digging
She described a sensation of being "kicked" as the Taser was applied to her neck. She told the court her partner had told her he "hated her" and said she was not as attractive as some women he saw at the gym.
She said: "I was trying to push him away. He was using this Taser. He managed to turn me over on to my right side. The court was told she was placed in the boot of a car by Mr Kasprzak, of Penistone Road, and Mr Borys, of Rashcliffe Hill Road, and driven to a wooded area near Huddersfield where the box was buried in a shallow grave.
"He knelt down, he pressed my ribs with his knee and continued to use the Taser." Ms Lewandowska recalled how she heard digging and then soil being placed on top of the box, allegedly by Mr Kasprzak.
She said she feared she would lose consciousness and would not be able to remember the attack. "He was putting the soil on top of me. I wanted to reply. I wanted to put my two fingers through the hole but I was afraid if he could see it he may break my fingers with the shovel," she said.
She added: "I think it lasted between five to 10 minutes. He said not to be afraid, that everything will be all right." Cut tape
She said Mr Borys assisted in restraining her legs with tape, which was also applied to her wrists and mouth. Miss Lewandowska, who is Polish and who spoke through an interpreter, said: "I thought about my ring, that I could take it off my finger and try to cut through the tape with it.
Asked if she could move, she replied: "It was not easy as I was tied up. The only thing I could move was my head, which was also tied up with the tape." "I cut the tape from my legs with this ring. I put the ring back on my finger then I put my whole hand through the opening.
She described how her partner knelt down and said he had "hated me for four years". "I was focusing on the hole I had just made. I took my head out from the box through the hole and at that point the soil was getting in."
She described how her partner, of Penistone Road, also mentioned a "secret house" and how she was not going to see him or her son again. The court was told she could hear music from a nearby pub and as she stumbled down to the road she stopped a passing motorist who took her home and raised the alarm.
The witness described how her hands started turning blue during her ordeal.
"I was sitting there for one, two, maybe three hours, all the time thinking why his family is not there? Why his mother is not around to see what her son is doing?"
She described how she was placed in a cardboard box, adding: "He said to me to lie down as he needed to close it and stick the box up."
On Monday, Jonathan Sharp prosecuting said: "In a nutshell, this case is about a young man who got bored with his partner, the mother of his child, and he decided to get rid of her."
Mr Sharp said Mr Borys, of Rashcliffe Hill Road, helped Mr Kasprzak dig the hole and carry the box containing Miss Lewandowska.
The case continues.The case continues.