James Fleet was executed in a cold, clinical killing because he had seen what happened to his uncle Raymond and he had to go, the prosecutor has told the jury trying two men charged with murdering both the Fleets.
Duncan McWilliam was closing the Crown's case today in the High Court at Rotorua where Mikaere James Hura, 21, and Zen Pulemoana, 27, have denied both murders at Mamaku on August 7 last year.
They are jointly charged with Martin Hone who has pleaded guilty to both murders.
Manslaughter charges have been admitted by Richard Te Kani who had also been present when the Fleets died.
McWilliam said it was the Crown's case that nothing good was going to happen when the Fleets were taken down a forestry road for a second time on the day they died.