She lied in a statement to police because she was angry with her brother, the sister of a man on trial for abduction and allied charges has told a Rotorua District Court jury.
The woman said her anger was sparked by two of her brother's friends leaving stolen property at her home which led to her arrest for receiving.
The man, whose name is suppressed, is charged with abduction, three counts of sexual connection and seven burglary charges. Two of the sex charges are representative meaning they allegedly happened more than once.
The jury was sent home for the day after the Crown closed its case early this afternoon. The defence is expected to open tomorrow. In evidence, the defendant's sister told how her brother and a girl arrived at her home in July 2015. Her view was the girl's age was 16 or 17 and she denied the couple slept together while there.
Shown her statement to police by prosecutor Chris Macklin, the woman agreed that she'd said the girl was 15 and made other claims which she'd contradicted on oath. One was that she'd walked in on them having intercourse.
Told by defence lawyer Bill Nabney the girl testified she and the defendant ran out the back door when police came to her home, the woman insisted they'd left before police arrived.
The trial before Judge Maree MacKenzie and a jury of 11 women and one man is into its second week.