The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Woman on trial for murder says: ‘I was scared’
A teenage woman accused of murdering a man in a Peterborough street told a jury she was ‘scared’ of him.
Martyna Ogonowska (18) admitted stabbing Filip Jaskiewicz in a car in Oakdale Avenue on October 21 last year. She denies murder.
On Tuesday she told Cambridge Crown Court Mr Jaskiewicz had ‘scared her’ before the stabbing - and said she had made the fatal wound after she was given a knife by one of her friends after fighting with Mr Jaskiewicz.
She told the jury she had been to The Solstice bar with the 23-year-old van driver, her mum and two of her friends Zofie Fedakova and Peter Csisco. When they left the bar, they got into Mr Jaskiewicz’s VW Golf, and drove to Stanground. Ogonowska told the jurors Mr Jaskiewicz agreed to take them back to Ogonowska’s home in Victoria Place, Peterborough.
Ogonowska said: “I was shouting at him. He was driving too fast. He wasn’t driving properly. He told me to shut up. I knew he wasn’t going towards the house, he was going somewhere else. That’s why I tried to stop him. I was scared.”
Ogonowska said Mr Jaskiewicz eventually stopped the car in Oakdale Avenue.
She told the court the pair had an argument in the street, and he pushed her to the ground, before Mr Csisco and Miss Fedakova calmed the situation down.
Ogonowska said they talked about getting a taxi, but Mr Jaskiewicz ‘became aggressive towards me again’ as she sat in the front passenger seat. She said they argued, with both calling each other names, until he slapped her.
She said: “I was scared of him. I was scared as I didn’t know what he was capable of.’
When he slapped her, she said Miss Fedakova asked her to get out of the car. When they did, Ogonowska said: “Before she said anything, she showed me the knife.”
Ogonowska said she recognised the knife from her mum’s house, but she said she did not know Miss Fedakova had taken it.
Ogonowska said she took the knife, and hid it in the sleeve of her jacket, and got back in the car - when Mr Jaskiewicz continued to be aggressive. She said: “I was scared of him and I didn’t know what to do. In the beginning he saw the base of the knife, and I showed it him. I said Zofie gave it to me. He said that I wanted to kill him. I said no.”
She said the pair had a fight, but she kept the knife away from him.
Matthew Jewell, defending asked her: “When did you realise the knife went into him.
She replied: “I noticed I wasn’t holding it in my hand. I thought it fell. I didn’t think it was in him.
“I noticed it and I removed it straight away to save him, I wanted to help him, I wanted to stop the bleeding, I wanted to call an ambulance. I was in shock.”
Ogonowska denies murder and possession of a knife. The trial continues.
‘I was scared as I didn’t know what he was capable of ’
Martyna Ogonowska