Earlier this year, Carl Junior Bartlett, 30, was jailed for 22 months over the aggravated burglary and 32-year-old Sonny Watene Bartlett got 21 months’ jail.
The final defendant, Jesse James Kelly, 30, — who acted as a "lookout" during the incident — appeared in the Dunedin District Court this week on the same charge as well as unrelated counts of assault and breaching a protection order.
The court heard the three men were drinking at a St Clair address on October 28 last year and began yelling insults at a nearby home.
When they saw two people from the house they fired further abuse, calling them "Syrian n..." and yelling "derka derka".
The racial barrage continued for 15 minutes, court documents said.
Shortly after, the defendants left their property, Carl Bartlett raising a 70cm machete over his shoulder as he went.
"All were shouting and stomping as they walked," a prosecution summary said.
Kelly stood outside the address as the others approached.
Carl Bartlett slammed the machete against the door, trying to enter the house while Sonny Bartlett skirted the perimeter banging and pulling on windows in an attempt to open them.
The court noted there were "numerous" Palestinian victims inside the home, some of them only children.
All were "extremely scared and fearful for their lives".
After five minutes, the defendants returned to their property where they were arrested.
Earlier that day, Kelly spat in his partner’s face while she was picking up their child.
In a statement, she told the court she was disgusted by the "extremely degrading" incident, which was witnessed by her child.
The court heard Kelly had spent four months in prison before he was granted electronically monitored bail.
Counsel Cate Andersen said the period was particularly difficult for her client as he missed a family funeral and his ability to care for his children was compromised.
While Judge Hermann Retzlaff accepted Kelly played a lesser role than the Bartletts, he was "not a mere bystander".
"There’s no suggestion you were in any way discouraging the offending," he said.
"You were an enabler."
A Probation report said Kelly was particularly ashamed of the race-based nature of his crime and the judge accepted the remorse as genuine.
Judge Retzlaff was unimpressed, though, by the defendant blaming alcohol for his actions.
"It’s on you for drinking it," he said.
Kelly was sentenced to one and a-half months’ community detention and 20 months’ intensive supervision.
