Armed sisters trashed house, court is told

Two sisters trashed a Napier house because they were excluded from a legal highs smoking session.

Twin sisters armed with knives and a roasting prong trashed a friend's house because one of the women had been left out of a legal-highs smoking session, a court has heard.

But the target had already fled, leaving a female boarder stunned and helpless as the intruders shredded the curtains and kicked in the walls, a jury was told in the Napier District Court.

The claims were made as sisters Rebecca Healey and Elizabeth Rangihera Healey, who will be 46 this month, went on trial with Elizabeth's partner, Kelvin Patrick Taurerewa Edmonds, 43.

At the start of the trial before Judge Bridget Mackintosh, they pleaded not guilty to a charge of aggravated burglary relating to an incident at a house in Kingsley Dr, Flaxmere, early on the night of May 5 last year.

But Rebecca Healey admitted a charge of sending threatening Facebook and text messages in the hours leading up to the incident.

Crown prosecutor Fiona Cleary told the jury that the previous day a woman occupant of the house had invited Edmonds, Elizabeth Healey and others over for the synthetic session. But when Rebecca Healey learned she had been left out, she became angry and enlisted Edmonds and her sister to go to the house.

The boarder said she had been staying at the house for about three weeks and was on the phone when the twins burst in.

Each had a knife and one also had a roasting prong. They demanded to know where the woman was as they cut the curtains down and kicked in the walls.

The boarder said she was "freaking out" and did not know what to do.

"I'm still trying to work it out myself," she told lawyer Scott Jefferson, who represented Elizabeth Healey.

"Yes, it was absolutely bizarre. I don't know what came over them. They weren't being themselves."

She said that as the women fled, Edmonds told her not to call the police.

The trial continues today.