Friends of a woman who was allegedly kidnapped, beaten and left to die in Dome Valley north of Auckland have shared details of a similar attack on her just a month earlier.
In both instances the victim had her hair cut off, was assaulted with a weapon and dumped on a rural road.
Auckland sex worker Savannah Bell says she heard her friend "screaming like she was in pain" as she was allegedly tasered and assaulted at a west Auckland house in the previous attack.
The victim had driven Ms Bell and another sex worker, Danielle Ferguson, to the house after Cameron Hakeke texted asking her to drop off some methamphetamine.
Ms Bell and Ms Ferguson both gave evidence in the trial of Hakeke, Nicola Jones and Julie-Ann Torrance, who are all facing various charges relating to the April attack.
They say they were waiting in the victim's car as she went into the house.
Ms Bell said Ms Jones was screaming at the pair, and "said she was going to taser us if we tried anything against her".
Ms Bell recalled how Ms Jones then drove the pair back to town, telling them she'd tasered the victim for sleeping with her ex-boyfriend and calling Child Youth and Family to take her kids away.
"She said that they cut her hair and did other terrible stuff."
The Crown says the victim was driven past the Bombay Hills and left there.
Defence lawyers accused Ms Bell and Ms Ferguson of lying to the jury and making up their stories together.
They also questioned why neither woman called police, but Ms Bell said she "was too scared to".
"If you see something happen you don't ususally ring the police, you just stay out of it."
Jones, Torrance and two others are also facing a raft of charges relating to a second attack in May, which left the victim with life-threatening injuries.
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