Defence lawyers Louise Elder and Peter Stevens said their clients were all extremely remorseful for the attack on the two women.
Rimene stood in the dock crying throughout sentencing while Peneha-Rimene smiled and played with her watch which kept alarming throughout the sentencing before she was asked to remove it.
Peneha just stood looking at the floor.
The public gallery was full of family members and friends who had to be stopped from rushing at the trio as they walked from the dock followed sentencing. In the background the three prisoners yelled back that they loved their family.
Ms Elder told the court her clients, Lee Peneha and Peneha-Rimene found the entire incident "inexplicable". She noted the younger of her clients had no previous convictions while Peneha-Rimene had a conviction for violence dating back 19 years.
"They understand how terrified it would have been [for the victims] as part of this prolonged attack ... they are remorseful."
Mr Stevens told the court his client had alcohol and drug issues and the trio were drinking heavily before the attack.
"She has shown genuine remorse," he said.
Judge Tuohy had told the trio the attack was particularly nasty, leaving the women fearful in their own home.
He noted both victims had been subjected to a terrifying attack.
The trio had arrived at the home with Rimene blaming the younger victim for the death of her mother before punching her in the face, striking her five to six times, causing her to fall to the floor where all three began kicking her. Rimene grabbed her head and banged it hard against the floor before they all began kicking her about the body and head.
Lee Peneha stomped on her chest before strangling her as the victim's mother sat terrified in the corner of the kitchen. Peneha began calling the older woman a "nark", punched her in the eye and grabbing a handful of her hair, banged her head so hard against the wall it put a hole in the formica wall. She then pulled out the woman's hair rolled it into a ball and put it on an element, smoking the house out and setting off the smoke detector.
"That must have added to her terror," he told Peneha.
Peneha also lunged at the younger victim with a knife, stabbing her in the arm as she protected herself, when she wouldn't give Peneha cannabis that she believed was in the bedroom.
Both complainants spent two days in hospital recovering from their injuries and had been left feeling unsafe in their own home, Judge Tuohy said.
Aggravating features in the case were multiple attacks on the victims with them being hit mainly about the head and the fact the trio went to the home uninvited.
"Any way you look at this, it was serious violence."
Crown prosecutor Emma Light made submissions to the court asking for a starting point of four years six months' jail for the trio with an uplift for both Rimene and Peneha.
Rimene was sentenced to three years six months' on the two injuring with intent charges, six months' for burglary and six months' for breach of a protection order - to be served concurrently.
Peneha-Rimene was sentenced to two years three months' imprisonment on all charges while Lee Peneha was handed down a four-year, six- month sentence and given a first strike warning under the three-strikes law.
This means if she appears before the court on another violence charge she will serve her full sentence without parole and if convicted a third time is given the heaviest sentence for that crime without parole.
