Leeds United defender Michael Duberry has received death threats since giving evidence in a trial that saw Jonathan Woodgate convicted of affray.
"Kill you, stab you, cut your throat - that sort of thing," said Duberry of the threats. "I've never had it before and I don't know how to deal with it. [You] can't say take it with a pinch of salt because it's a death threat.
"What if a silly coward wants to have a pop at me when I'm walking down the street with my girls? That side of it frightens me," Duberry said in an interview with ITV1's Tonightprogramme today.
Duberry, once Woodgate's best friend, changed his mind during a first trial and decided to tell "the truth" about Woodgate's actions on the night an Asian student was brutally attacked in Leeds in January 2000.
Duberry was cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in the first trial involving Woodgate and Lee Bowyer.
Bowyer was cleared of assault charges in the second trial. Woodgate was sentenced to 100 hours of community service last Friday.