A sleeping woman woke up to find her lodger armed with a knife and stabbing after they had a row over Covid.

The victim wept as she told a jury she feared she was going to die when Andrzej Kitrys knifed her in the head and arm three times.

She was seen on CCTV fleeing the property in Kirby Road, Dartford, with her head covered in blood and trying to raise the alarm.

A jury at Maidstone Crown Court has now convicted Kitrys, 35, of attempted murder for the incident in October 2022.

It heard how a week before the attack, Kitrys sent the victim a message saying he had tested positive for Covid and after that she and another resident, Andrzej Nowek, met to find a way to ask Kitrys to leave.

Prosecutor Don Ramble said she had requested Kitrys move away as he had not been vaccinated for Covid.

“Just after 11.45 pm on October 8 she went to bed and fell asleep,” he explained. “Terrifyingly, she woke up at around 2am to find she was no longer alone in her bedroom – someone was by her bed.”

‘I thought it was a dream. I just thought he would kill me.’

She asked in English: “Who are you and what are you doing in my bedroom?”

Kitrys is alleged to have replied: “The gentleman upstairs, I killed him already with a knife and now I am going to kill you and then I will kill myself.”

The prosecutor told the jury that Mr Nowek was “very much alive but sleeping, oblivious to what was happening”.

The victim began to cry as she told the court: “I thought it was a dream. I just thought he would kill me.”

The Dartford woman added she was stabbed three times on her head and left hand as she fought with her attacker.

She said Kitrys, who was sitting astride her, told her: “You’re doing well. You’re doing well,” as she grabbed the knife and threw it across the room.

After a struggle, she managed to push him away and then fled her home to raise the alarm.

Mr Ramble added: “She ran as fast as she could. She ran across the road and rang the doorbell of one address but there was no answer. She tried another, desperately banging on the door to be let in. The occupier let her in and she was now safe. He then tried to stem the flow of blood from her wounds with paper towels.”

The prosecutor said she was then to King’s College Hospital and treated for her injuries to her head, chest, arm and back of her left hand.

Armed police then broke into the house and found Kitrys lying in bed, watching TV.

Kitrys denied the charges and will be sentenced in November after reports are prepared about whether he is a threat to the public.