Emergency services rushed to a stabbing and death in the carpark of Oji Fibre Solutions in Māngere Bridge. Photo / File
Emergency services rushed to a stabbing and death in the carpark of Oji Fibre Solutions in Māngere Bridge. Photo / File
A string of workers at an Auckland packaging factory have described to a jury how a man allegedly left their colleague dripping with blood from stabs wounds before hitting two others - one fatally - with his car, sending them flying into the air.
Oji Fibre Solutions staffer Pierre Hillmansaid the man sandwiched a woman between his and a parked car at the factory carpark in Māngere Bridge on June 20, 2019. She died at the scene.
"She was completely stuck to the back of the black car until it moved backwards ... then she fell to the ground, face down.
"Everyone was screaming …. I froze. Too much screaming," he said at the High Court in Auckland.
Saofa Niumagumagu is on trial before Justice Mathew Downs. He is facing charges of murder, attempted murder and assault with a weapon.
"We started chasing him again ... as we got close to the car we saw some rocks and broken pallets on the road and started picking them up and throwing them on to the car, on the driver's window.
"A truck came over, our delivery truck. He saw what was happening and tried to block the car."
But Riyaz said the man hit the truck's rear tyres with his car and broke free, and started driving towards him and his colleagues.
"He came and hit my left leg and I flew over the car," he said.
Shortly after, Niumagumagu came speeding back into the factory carpark and hit Kaisala, who did not survive despite CPR attempts by converting supervisor Robert Kearney, the jury heard.
Kearney claims to have seen both Riyaz and Kaisala hit by the car.
"I remember Abdul running quickly ... [the car] sent Abdul flying, like what seemed to be a cartwheel. Abdul travelled at least 10 metres down the road.
"I made my way over to see what damage had been done ... I was shocked that I watched Abdul get up and walk over to the grass," Kearney said.
Kearney said he then saw the car speeding back into the Oji Fibre Solutions carpark and hit Kaisala.
"The car sped, hit the person very hard into another vehicle that was parked where she was standing ... the person hit the blue car and slid to the ground."
A woman died and another was stabbed at the carpark of Oji Fibre Solutions in Māngere Bridge, the Crown alleges. Photo / Google
Former Oji Fibre Solutions worker and current police officer Nateina Felemi said she saw "blood streaming down" a woman's face and heard her screaming for help.
She saw a man making a stabbing motion with a weapon as the woman stood hunched over in the carpark.
"Two of my work colleagues got the male off her. I remember him saying 'I am her husband' and that's when my work colleagues got him to leave the premises," Felemi said.
Matamua suffered stab wounds. She has also given evidence to the jury, claiming she feared for her life that day.
Oji Fibre Solutions worker Sagaia Kaisala died after being hit by Soafa Niumagumagu's car, the Crown alleges. Photo / Supplied
Matamua and Niumagumagu had separated shortly before the incident and Matamua told the jury she had moved in with her new partner.
Niumagumagu was waiting by her car when she finished work and used a weapon to stab her multiple times as she tried to get into the driver's seat, Matamua said in her evidence on Monday under cross examination by defence lawyer Sharyn Green.
