The jury in the trial of two women accused of attempting to kill a 19-year-old in the Dome Valley will begin deliberating on Monday.
Nicola Jones and Julie-Ann Torrance are standing trial in the High Court at Auckland accused of kidnapping and sexually violating the woman, before leaving her for dead on a remote highway north of Auckland in May last year.
Co-accused Wayne Blackett admitted to attempted murder at the start of the trial and the Crown says Jones and Torrance laughed and egged him on as he tried to snap the young woman's neck and beat her head repeatedly with a hammer on the roadside where she was found.
Prosecutors say the day prior, the women, along with Michelle Blom, grabbed the complainant off Auckland's Karangahape Road, before locking her in the basement of Blom's Great North Road home and subjecting her to a prolonged attack.
Before the jury retired for the weekend on Friday, Justice Christian Whata took the court through a lengthy summary of the complex case.