A “PROFESSIONAL fighter” has gone on trial accused of racially abusing a woman whilst attacking her in a pub car park.

David Round, of Camuset Close in Hakin, appeared at Swansea Crown Court charged with racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The 38-year-old denies attacked the woman in the early hours of July 2, 2022, in the car park of The Three Crowns pub.

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Opening the case, prosecutor Georgia Donohue told the jury the complainant, her partner, his daughter, and family members had gone to The Harbourmaster on July 1, and moved on that evening to The Three Crowns – where they saw Round and his wife.

“Everyone was chatting. Everyone was getting along,” Ms Donohue said.

However, the complainant said that she noticed Round “beginning to get rowdy” as the night went on.

The complainant said that, outside after they left the pub, Round “tried to swing a punch at the back of [her partner’s] head”.

She alleged that she then saw Round punch his wife in the face, and went over and told him ‘You can’t do that’.

The complainant said that Round turned to her and punched her in the face, causing her to fall to the floor.

She told the jury that another man led the defendant away and was trying to calm him down.

Round came back again and punched her around her left eye, again knocking her to the ground, the complainant said.

She said he then straddled her and was “repeatedly hitting [her] with his right hand on the left side of [her] face”.

The complainant said she tried to push him off, but he bit her finger.

“He called me a f****** black c***,” she said. “And he called me a f****** n*****.

“Those words were meant for me. He knew what he was saying and he knew what he was doing.”

The jury was told that the complainant sustained a black eye, bruising and swelling to her face, a cut lip and a cut finger.

David Leathley, defending, put to the complainant that her partner – who had previously been in a relationship with Round’s wife – started a fight with the defendant.

“All I saw is David swinging at the back of [my partner’s] head,” the complainant said.

Mr Leathley asked the complainant if her evidence that Round punched his own wife was “gross exaggeration and a falsehood”, which she denied.

Mr Leathley suggested that the complainant’s injuries would have been worse had she been attacked in this way by “professional fighter” Round.

“No they wouldn’t because Mr Round loses most of his fights,” the complainant replied.

The complainant’s cousin, who was at the pub with her that night, was asked why in her witness statement she said she saw the complainant’s partner fighting with someone, but in her evidence said that she “didn’t see [him] fighting”.

“That’s a big difference,” Mr Leathley said.

The trial continues.