Jail for vicious attack on woman

Two Welcome Bay women who viciously beat another woman leaving a bootprint in the centre of their victim's face have been jailed for six months.
Factory worker Pahe Kingi and traffic management worker Brendalee Rameka, both aged 30, had earlier admitted the assault.
Tauranga District Court was told that on January 18 the pair having received text messages from the victim travelled to Rotorua with a male associate to confront her about them.
The confrontation become heated and a scuffle broke out and the victim was punched twice in the head by Rameka and Kingi.
As she cowered on the ground trying to covering her head, both Rameka and Kingi then punched and kicked her about the head with such force it left a bootprint in the centre of her face.
The woman also suffered a 1cm cut below her right eye and redness and pain to her left shoulder.
Kingi's lawyer Glenn Dixon told Judge Thomas Ingram that his client was expecting a child in January and requested the opportunity for the court to at least consider home detention despite her bad record, if an appropriate address could be found.
"I'm afraid not. Violence of this scale is just not home detention range," Judge Ingram said.
Kingi told the judge she realised she could have prevented what happened but she and Kingi had been provoked and things got out of hand.
"You choose to raise your hands and now must pay the consequences," Judge Ingram said.
Simon Whitehead, Rameka's lawyer also urged the judge to consider home detention despite her "chequered past" which occurred when she living with her ex-partner, a patched gang member.
Rameka, assessed at low risk of reoffending and had a job lined up, was not trying to justify her actions but there was a some degree of provocation from the victim to his client's offending, he said.
Mr Whitehead said in the text messages from the victim to Rameka she threatened to do a "hit on them" and the pair had gone around to merely sort it out, but things got out of hand when the woman spat at her.
Rameka had a 9-year-old child and a new partner who does not condone this sort of behaviour, and she offered to pay $500 reparation to her victim.
Judge Ingram said home detention was just out of the question for both woman, who had previously gone to prison for assault offences a number of times.
Kingi had nine pages of convictions, which included "almost every offence in the statute books", the judge said.
Rameka's six-page conviction list also included possession of an offensive weapon, and number of drugs and dishonesty offences.
Judge Ingram said both women had a poor track record of complying with community-based sentences for which Kingi had gone to prison.