The jury took much of this afternoon to find both guilty after retiring to deliberate this morning. Their verdicts were delivered in somewhat of an eerie, calm courtroom - with little to no emotion shown by anyone, including Winter and Te Amo in the dock.
During the trial, the jurors had heard some truly horrific evidence, leading Justice Timothy Brewer to invite them to take up the court's 24-hour counselling services.
It was also the first time Pairama's mum had heard the raw details about what happened to her daughter.
Her life goal, the court heard, was gaining a qualification and enough money to buy a house.
But she had spent time in Oranga Tamariki care and also on Auckland's streets.
At the start of the trial, Winter pleaded guilty to kidnapping Pairama but denied murdering her. Te Amo had initially denied both charges but at the end of the trial's evidence also pleaded guilty to kidnapping Pairama.
Throughout the trial, however, the duo blamed each other for being the person responsible for Pairama's death.
"I believe it was a gang-related thing," Lena told the Herald.
She said she felt "a bit of remorse" from Te Amo but added: "You were there, you could've stopped it."
"They told her to take her clothes off and shaved her hair, burnt her body parts and then had a little meeting," the teen witness said.
Pairama, the teen said, was "crying ... she doesn't know how to fight ... she just went with it".
Tied to a chair with rope and gagged, her body burned with a spray can and lighter, Pairama was then given a chilling choice.
The witness said Winter barked: "It's your fault that I got [suppressed] ... how do you wanna die? Karma is a b*tch'. How do you wanna die? You only got 'til three o'clock."
At three o'clock Pairama was to be stabbed if she didn't choose death by hanging.
"They told me to go to the living room to keep a look out and [because] they didn't want me to look at it, so I went to the living room, sat there and I could hear like stomps, could hear banging in the hallway and when they finished killing her, one of them came outside and I opened the door and I saw her hanging," the witness told Detective Constable Frageo (Damon) Petersen in a filmed interview.
An immunity witness told the jury Ashley Winter was the ringleader at the house when Pairama died. Photo / Sam Hurley
The officers were met at the door by a young, crying woman - it was Pairama.
But then another "more dominant" woman, described by one of the officers as transgender, came to the door and said Ashleigh Tonga wasn't there.
Winter is transgender and the teen witness told police the dominant woman was Winter.
"Ashley said 'oh it's all right sis', she acted like [Pairama] was her sister and then they told the cops everything was alright so the cops left," she said.
Police first began investigating the homicide the next day after breaking up a fight near Britomart in central Auckland.
Walker said the group who were at the house had turned on each other.
