The verdicts have been reached in the case of four people accused of carrying out violent attacks on a teenager.
Nicola Jones, Julie-Ann Torrance, Michelle Blom and Cameron Hakeke faced an assortment of charges during the three-week trial in Auckland's High Court.
On Monday afternoon, the verdicts came in.
Jones was found guilty of threatening to kill, assault with a weapon, attempted murder, injuring with intent but was found not guilty of sexual violation.
Torrance was found guilty of assault with a weapon, sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and attempted murder.
Blom was found guilty of kidnapping but not guilty on two counts of assault with a weapon, one charge of sexual violation and a charge of injuring with intent.
Hakeke was found guilty of kidnapping and one charge of assault with a weapon, but not guilty of aggravated robbery and a second charge of assault with a weapon.
Hakeke and Jones cried as the verdicts were read out, while Torrance and Blom showed no emotion.
They are due to be sentenced next month.
Throughout the three-week trial at the High Court in Auckland, the jury heard how Jones became enraged when she discovered the victim had supposedly slept with her ex-partner.
She sent the victim's mother text messages saying "I'm going to kill her" and "your daughter is history". Jones denied a charge of threatening to kill but was found guilty on that charge on Monday.
Jones, Torrance and Hakeke carried out the first attack on the victim in April last year.
Hakeke lured her to his west Auckland home with a text message asking to buy methamphetamine. When she showed up at the house, she was ambushed by Jones and Torrance.
The victim gave evidence recalling how she was tasered, had her hair cut off, and was forced at knife-point to sign over ownership of her car. She was then driven past the Bombay Hills where they left her on the roadside, and warned her not to return to Auckland.
"I was told that if I come back to Auckland ever I'm going to get more of the same," the victim told the court.
Just two weeks later the second attack took place - and was far more brutal.
The victim, who was working as a prostitute at the time, was said to have been kidnapped from Karangahape Rd by Jones, Torrance, Michelle Blom and Jaclyn Keates - who has already admitted her role.
After being forced into the car, she was driven back to Blom's Glen Eden address, where hours earlier the group had hosted a nail party and smoked methamphetamine.
She was stripped naked in the basement, and beaten with a cricket wicket.
"It was excruciating, it was hard enough to literally sting," she says.
Her hand was stomped on, breaking her finger, and her hair was once again cut off. She had cable ties around her wrists and ankles, and was sexually violated.
The victim was kept in the basement for around 20 hours with no water, and says she could hear the accused talking about killing her.
She was driven to Dome Valley by Jones, Torrance and Wayne Blackett - who pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping and attempted murder but was on Monday found guilty.
It was at Dome Valley that Blackett tried to break her neck, then strangle her - and when both methods didn't work, the Crown says he smashed a hammer over her head at least 10 times.
The victim was left for dead in a pool of blood on the roadside, where she was discovered by a passerby the following morning. She was barely alive and had suffered life threatening head injuries.
The victim woke up in hospital about a week later and was paralysed down the right side of her body, unable to speak. She spent two weeks in hospital before being moved to a brain rehabilitation unit, where she spent two months. She's still seeing a speech therapist every fortnight.
In relation to the first attack, Jones and Torrance admitted charges of kidnapping, assault with a weapon and aggravated robbery - however Jones denied using a taser. Hakeke denied all four charges against him.
Torrance and Jones had also pleaded guilty to several charges relating to the second attack, but both denied sexually violating the victim and attempted murder. Blom denied five charges against her.
The defendants denied the following charges:
- Nicola Jones - threatening to kill, assault with a weapon (taser), sexual violation, attempted murder and injuring with intent.
- Julie-Ann Torrance - assault with a weapon (cutting the victim's hair), sexual violation and attempted murder.
- Michelle Blom - kidnapping, two charges of assault with a weapon, sexual violation and injuring with intent.
- Cameron Hakeke - kidnapping, two charges of assault with a weapon, aggravated robbery.
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