A WOMAN who tried to protect the victim of an alleged ''honour killing'' has told a court how the two attackers kicked her out of the way and bashed the man ''like a piece of meat''.

Nada Bayley said she was walking home along Marion Street, Leichhardt, on February 21 last year when a man stumbled towards her yelling ''help me'' before tripping on a gutter and falling onto his back.

Nada Bayley outside court … felt her life in danger. Credit:Simon Alekna

In the NSW Supreme Court yesterday, Ms Bayley said she tried to protect the man from two others giving chase who ''looked like they were on a mission to kill somebody''.

''I put myself over him to protect him and screamed to the guys to leave him alone,'' she said. ''Both of them kicked me in [to] the gutter.''