The Rotorua jury trying tattooist Jamie Dean Keremete has heard a raft of evidence from witnesses about the violence he allegedly inflicted on a woman.
A witness told them of seeing her daughter flying into the air as Keremete, 47, tried to run her over.
Another time she saw him rip the handle off her bathroom door as her daughter cowered behind it.
Questioned by Keremete's lawyer Bill Nabney, the woman said she'd gone outside her house while he was looking for her daughter.
"If I hadn't and he found her before me he would have killed her," she insisted.
Keremete is on trial in the High Court at Rotorua where he's defending 22 charges centred around two women between 2006 to 2016. Charges include rape, death threats and sexual violation.
A neighbour outlined numerous times he'd heard the woman screaming and begging not to be hit.
"She was pleading for her life. I said [to his partner] he's going to kill her sooner or later ... I could see him towering over her, she was pleading 'please don't hit me, please don't hit me', she was like a broken dog."
The man said Keremete would give him friendly smiles.
"I thought 'what a creep' because I knew what he was doing to her."
He accepted he hadn't seen the woman being hit.
Another neighbour told of a scared-looking woman knocking at her window begging to be let in.
"She told me he'd taken her some place and if she did anything he'd bury her... She said he'd get jealous if she looked at boys visiting my home."
Keremete's sister testified she once witnessed Keremete brandishing a Samurai sword.
"My daughter was there too yelling at him, he accused us of taking her side, I said that's what females do."
She said the woman told her Keremete had tied her up and kept her naked in a room.
She claimed the woman would disappear when the rent was due then reappear on Keremete's pay day, saying she'd seen Keremete with a welt and bruising on his face and the woman with a black eye.
Later today, another witness told how he jumped his fence waving a wood splinter as he ordered the tattooist out of his suburban Rotorua street.
He said seeing Keremete doing burn-outs and driving on to a footpath where kids were playing made him so angry he lost the plot.
The witness painted a vivid word picture of an enraged, "fried" looking Keremete yelling and threatening to kill a woman whose mother lived in the street.
"He was threatening to kill her, saying he'd be coming back to get her. He was calling her a f***ing s*** and all sorts of other derogatory things."
The witness said this was the fifth or sixth time Kermete had behaved like this on the street.
"I'd had enough of this b*******. I was out chopping firewood when I lost the plot and ordered him out of the street, when I did he threatened to kill me, have a go at my family."
Referring to a time a balaclava-wearing Keremete allegedly attacked one of his claimed victim's cars smashing his way in with a baseball bat, witnesses described hearing a noise like a shotgun being fired.
One told of hearing a woman screaming her lungs out, another of a female voice calling out 'help, help' and sobbing.
The trial before Justice Matthew Palmer QC and a jury of 11 is set to continue on Monday.