The jury trying two teenagers charged with the murder of retired teacher John Rowe have been reminded he suffered at least 28 injuries from the blows the girls rained on him.
The two have pleaded not guilty at the High Court in Rotorua to Mr Rowe's murder at his Opotiki home last year.
Closing the Crown's case against Courtney Churchward, 18, and a 15-year-old girl whose name is suppressed, prosecutor Greg Hollister-Jones described the attack as "close and personal".
"He was attacked multiple times, they just went, and went, and went," he said.
The considerable force used by the accused was powerful evidence of their intentions - they had gone to Mr Rowe's house heavily disguised with beanies and scarves and attacked him regardless of his age and frailty.
The stick the 15-year-old wielded had been used with such force it had broken, but bloodstains found on it indicated the attack continued regardless.
Mr Hollister-Jones reminded the jury Churchward had winced when he questioned her about injuries a pathologist had compared with a boiled egg being hit against a bench.
When Churchward had lent into a police video camera and said she felt very good when she hurt people, it had demonstrated what was going on in her mind when she was striking Mr Rowe.
He asked the jury to recall that the 15-year-old had told her boyfriend that she thought she and Churchward had killed someone and used the world "killing" in a legally intercepted telephone conversation. In one of these conversations she had also said she would be going down "big time".
Mr Hollister-Jones submitted both accused were principals and parties to murder, jointly contributing to Mr Rowe's death after formulating a plan together to attack him.
They had gone to the 15-year-old's home after the attack and, while Mr Rowe was dying, counted out the money they stole from his wallet.
Churchward's counsel Paul Mabey, QC, told the jury the trial was not the "bloodlust" frenzy the Crown claimed.
Churchward was an accomplished burglar who had gone to Mr Rowe's house to steal but not to kill him.
She accepted she had contributed to Mr Rowe's death, but that contribution had been culpable homicide not murder.
Mr Mabey submitted Churchward had repeatedly said to the police and in evidence that she had not wanted to hurt Mr Rowe so badly he would die.
He urged the jury not to draw conclusions simply because the prosecutor wanted them to.
"On her behalf I say to you you may well have doubt about the Crown case. If so, give her that doubt and find the proper verdict in this case is manslaughter."
The 15-year-old's counsel is to make his closing submissions this afternoon. Justice Geoffrey Venning has indicated he will sum up tomorrow.
