High-profile businessman jailed for string of horrific sex offences

A woman, who spewed a barrage of expletives at a judge during the sentencing of a high-profile businessman, threatened to kill the victims in the case the day after a jury found him guilty.

The woman's 59-year-old partner appeared at Auckland District Court yesterday where he was jailed for 15 years for a string of horrific sex offences.

The lead charge was one of sexual violation, stemming from when he chained a woman up in a "dungeon" in his flash CBD apartment.

After sentencing, the issue of the defendant's name suppression was discussed and was eventually continued until February by the judge.

But before he had made his decision, a woman dressed in a tight red top and jeans in the public gallery leaped to her feet and launched into a verbal tirade.

"They locked him up halfway through the f***ing trial... all these bitches were whores, you f***ing idiot," she screamed.

Judge Collins ordered her removal but she could still be heard screeching as she was led out of court by police officers.

It can now be revealed the 32-year-old woman - who cannot be named without identifying the defendant - was charged with threatening to kill four of the women associated with the case.

According to court documents she issued the threats against the man's co-defendant and three of the victims from the case - young, drug-addicted girls who were forced into sex acts with him.

The offence happened on October 25, the day after her partner had been found guilty of 15 sex and drug charges at trial.

She pleaded guilty to the allegation and will be sentenced in February.

The 20-year-old co-defendant, who introduced teenage girls to the man, was also found guilty of four charges at trial and was due to be sentenced yesterday, but it did not go ahead because of other unresolved criminal charges.

Only weeks before the trial started, she burgled a house near the Laingholm address where she was on bail.

The resident was a former police officer and because a restorative-justice conference had not taken place between the pair, the hearing had to be postponed until March.

On that day she will also be sentenced on charges of receiving and fraudulently using a document.