Three people have been jailed for kidnapping, assaulting and leaving a 19-year-old woman critically injured on a roadside in Dome Valley last year.
Julie-Anne Torrance, Nicola Jones and Wayne Blackett were sentenced at the High Court in Auckland on Friday morning on charges including attempted murder and kidnapping.
Justice Christian Whata described the attack as "cruel", saying it was an "execution-style attempted murder" on a vulnerable young woman.
Blackett was sentenced to 12 years and seven months' jail, with a minimum period of six years, three-and-a-half months. He pleaded guilty to kidnapping and attempted murder.
Jones was jailed for 13 years and one month with a minimum period of six years and six-and-a-half months. Jones was found guilty of a raft of charges including kidnapping, attempted murder, assault with a weapon and injuring with intent.
Torrance was jailed for 16 years and seven months, with a minimum period of eight years and three-and-a-half months for similar charges, as well as one of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.
Throughout the three-week trial in March, the jury heard details of two attacks carried out by Jones and Torrance last year, after Jones became enraged when she discovered the victim had supposedly slept with her ex-partner.
She sent the victim's mother a text message saying "I'm going to kill her" and "your daughter is history".
Jones, Torrance and Cameron Hakeke - who has already been sentenced - lured the victim to a west Auckland house where she was Tasered, had her hair cut off and was forced to sign over ownership of her car. She was then driven past the Bombay Hills, left on the side of the road, and warned not to return to Auckland.
Around two weeks later a second, more brutal attack was carried out.
The victim, who was working as a prostitute at the time, was kidnapped from central Auckland by Jones, Torrance, Michelle Blom and Jaclyn Keates. Blom was sentenced last month for one charge of kidnapping.
After being forced into the car, the victim was driven back to Blom's Glen Eden address, where hours earlier the group had hosted a nail party and smoked methamphetamine.
The victim was stripped naked, cable-tied and her hair was hacked off again. She was beaten with a cricket wicket, sexually violated and held against her will for more than 20 hours with no water. Her hand was also stomped on, breaking two of her fingers.
Torrance, Jones and Blackett then drove the victim to Dome Valley. It was there that Blackett tried to break her neck, before smashing a hammer over her head at least 10 times.
The trio left her there to die, and she was discovered by a member of the public the following morning.
She suffered life-threatening injuries and spent weeks in hospital and rehabilitation. During the trial she told the court she still had to see a speech therapist.
While the victim was not present at today's sentencing, Crown Lawyer Brian Dickey read a victim impact statement on her behalf.
She wrote about the physical and emotional struggles with her long recovery, and how she finds it difficult to trust people.
She said she had lost confidence and the attack had changed her life "irreversibly".
"I will never be the way that I was before."
The victim is still in physical therapy for her injuries, and is weak on the right side of her body after the attack initially left her paralysed.
Despite the trauma she went through, the victim also wrote about how she was determined to walk again after the attack - and now the trial is over she looks forward to putting the ordeal behind her.
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