A jury yesterday found twin sisters guilty on a charge of aggravated burglary in a home invasion, in which they were armed with knives and a roasting prong in Flaxmere 15 months ago.
Rebecca Healey and Elizabeth Rangihera Healey, 45, had pleaded not guilty when their trial started in Napier District Court on Wednesday.
Elizabeth Healey's partner, 43-year-old Kelvin Patrick Taurerewa Edmonds, also denied the charge and was acquitted by the jury of eight men and four women, which deliberated for about an hour late yesterday at the end of a trial before Judge Bridget Mackintosh.
The trial related to events after the trio drove to the house in Kingsley Dr, Flaxmere, early on the night of May 5 last year.
Crown prosecutor Fiona Cleary had told the court the raid was launched after Rebecca Healey became angry over not being invited to a legal highs smoking session. The target of the incident was not home when the group arrived, and a boarder said the twins burst in demanding to know the whereabouts of their target and began smashing up the house.