A KFC driver told the Michael Choy murder trial yesterday of her unease when she made a delivery to a Papakura address.
"Something seemed wrong. The whole situation seemed wrong," Sharleen Korewha told the jury in the High Court at Auckland.
Six youngsters aged 13 to 17 are accused of murdering 40-year-old Mr Choy, a driver for Pizza Hut, last September 12 after luring him into a trap with a bogus food order made by telephone.
Four are accused of robbing him of food and drink and one has already pleaded guilty.
Five of them are accused of the attempted robbery of Ms Korewha using an identical ploy three days earlier.
Ms Korewha told the jury that when she pulled into a driveway in Settlement Rd she was met by a girl aged about 16 and a boy with a "cheeky" look on his face.
According to the Crown, the pair were 17-year-old Whatarangi Rawiri and the 13-year-old, who was 12 years and four months at the time - the youngest person to be charged with murder in New Zealand.
The same pair allegedly spoke to Mr Choy to distract him the night he was attacked with a baseball bat. He died in hospital the next day from a blow to the head.
Ms Korewha told the jury that as well as the two people she spoke to, another person was standing across the road and she could hear other voices in the bushes. When she asked the two young people for money, the girl checked her pockets and said she had lost it.
All the time, Ms Korewha said the person across the road was just staring. When he left, the other two left as well.
The Crown says the plan to rob Ms Korewha fell through when the proposed hitter decided he could not strike a woman.
Ms Korewha cancelled the order, telling KFC the whole scenario was suspect.
Another Crown witness, 22-year-old Tekero Tahura, told the jury that Phillip Kaukasi, one of the accused, twice said they were going to "do" a delivery driver. The second occasion was the night Mr Choy was attacked.
The trial before Justice Robert Fisher continues on Monday.
KFC driver's suspicions raised at delivery scene
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