Two Rotorua sisters will find out today whether they will avoid going to jail for blackmailing a man one had a sexual encounter with.
Amanda Waitangi Sale, 21, and Pisila Martin, 31, appeared in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday where an appeal against their two-year prison sentence was heard. The pair had been on bail awaiting the appeal.
Justice Rebecca Ellis reserved her decision, saying it would be released today.
The women, both mothers of three, were sentenced in the Rotorua District Court in June by Judge Phil Gittos after they had previously pleaded guilty to two counts each of blackmail.
In February Sale met a middle-aged married man for a sexual encounter, after which she said she was going to "take him down" and say he'd abused her. She took him to an ATM machine and made him withdraw $1700.