Ballet star feared career was over after neck was broken in attack Mr Widdowson, an apprentice with the Royal Bern Ballet in Switzerland, was attacked while visiting his brother who is studying at Cardiff University. The day before the attack he had his "big break" when he was called up as an understudy for a leading ballet role. But Cardiff Crown Court heard on Wednesday that his night came to a violent end when he was attacked by Mohamoed who took his Apple iPhone and left him for dead in the street. Mr Widdowson managed to return to full health due to his fitness, strength and flexibility, the court heard, and is once again dancing at a top level almost two years after the attack in November 2011. He told the court: "I'm pretty much back to normal but there's a little bit of weakness in my left leg. I can't hold my leg in some points in a ballet class, I have to figure out different ways around it. It's not ideal but it's not catastrophic. He has returned to his intensive training regime in Bern, Switzerland, and is back to doing 120 push-ups a day. Unemployed Mohamoed was arrested at his home in Roath, Cardiff, in the days after the attack. He admitted meeting the dancer and robbing him of his mobile phone which he later used to make a call to a friend in Italy before throwing it away. But he claims Mr Widdowson was unharmed when he left him in the dark alleyway in Cardiff Bay. Mr Widdowson, from Bath, Somerset, gave evidence through a video link, saying he could remember very few details of the alleged attack. He said: "He picked up my phone and walked off, I was on the floor, he stole my phone, I don't remember anything else." Mohamoed denies attempted murder, and two alternative charge of grievous bodily harm with intent and inflicting grevious bodily harm.