Covert recordings during the manufacture of methamphetamine at a rural property are enough to find three Northlanders guilty of serious drug offending, the Crown has told a High Court jury.
After four weeks of evidence in the trial of Evanda Harding, Kiata Sonny Pene and Casey Rewha, Crown solicitor Mike Smith delivered his closing address to the jury in the High Court at Whangarei yesterday.
The trio were allegedly involved at different levels during the manufacture of at least 9kg of methamphetamine that was cooked in Taipuha Rd, Waiotira, between Whangarei and Paparoa, between September and December 2014.
Mr Smith told the jury the Taipuha Rd property was not somebody's country cottage but was a drug lab.
He said it was nonsensical for people such as Pene to suggest he did not know what was going on inside the house or drove the supervisor of the drug operation Brownie Harding to and from the house without any knowledge of meth being manufactured.