Two prisoners beat another inmate in his cell before pulling a table up outside his door and playing cards – while he was badly hurt and trapped inside.

That was the claim made by alleged victim Dennis Alma Robinson as he continued evidence against Kenneth Jermaine Burgess and Kamel Jamel Wendell Trott yesterday.

The pair are said to have viciously punched Robinson in the head after trapping him in his Westgate cell during a recreation break. Robinson, 38, has told their Supreme Court trial that the attack began around 9.30 a.m and lasted around an hour, before the pair left his cell and he was able to block himself inside.

He described how his attackers then sat outside playing cards, while he tried to clean himself up.

"I was cut above my left eye. My jaw was swollen.

"My left eye – there was decompression and actually pressing in on the bone structure. I had lumps and bumps throughout the top of my head," he said."My right ear was constantly ringing. I had contusions – lumps and bumps – in my temple areas. My eye was starting to become black and blue and I had cuts in the top of my head as well, and I was bleeding from them."Burgess, 36, and Trott, 32, deny wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.During his first day of evidence on Monday, Robinson told the jury he'd been doing push-ups outside his cell on the morning of June 6, 2007 during an exercise break. He explained there were usually two guards on duty in the block at such a time.He claimed that he went inside his cell with Burgess after he asked to have a private talk with him. However, he claimed that Burgess, later joined by Trott, attacked him by repeatedly punching him in the head.Robinson told the jury Burgess blamed him for his incarceration and threatened to kill him, before instructing him to write an affidavit clearing him of blame in "the Cooper twins" case. He explained that his own appeal in that case was due that month.Director of Public Prosecutions Rory Field told the jury on Monday that Burgess attacked Robinson because both men were found guilty after an earlier trial. He did not detail what that trial was.Robinson told the court yesterday that his attackers eventually left the cell and he managed to block his door against their re-entry with a home-made door stop."I knew if I opened the door and he (Burgess) came back in, there was a good chance that I would die that day," he explained yesterday. He went on to allege that when Burgess failed to get back into the cell:"He'd said to me I'd better stay in there forever because if I come out I was going to die."After that, he said, Burgess pulled a table from the recreation area up around eight feet from his cell door "and sat off playing cards and stuff outside the door" with Trott and other men. Meanwhile, he was left inside, trying to stem the blood from his wounds."Blood was on my desk, blood was on my bed, blood was on the floor," he told the court, recalling that he felt faint but fought to urge to lie down, choosing to pace the floor instead. "I didn't think I would get back up so I tried to keep myself awake," he explained. Robinson said when a prison officer arrived to lock up around 12.30 p.m. he alerted him to his injuries and medical help was summoned. He ended up spending three weeks in King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) where he underwent surgery.Asked by Mr. Field about the effects of his injuries after he'd been discharged from the hospital, Robinson said:"I continued to have headaches. The left side of my face is numb, I don't have much feeling in the left side of my face...my ear eventually healed, it took a couple of months."He told the court he first named Burgess and Trott as his attackers the day after the incident, while he was in KEMH. Asked to explain why he delayed doing so, Robinson replied:"At that point in time I didn't trust anybody."The case continues.