An elderly woman who was assaulted and robbed in her Levin home described one of the accused attackers as having "pure evil in her eyes".
Ninety-year-old Grace Virtue died of a brain injury weeks after being assaulted and robbed during the home invasion in November last year.
Three teenage girls, who have name suppression, are on trial for murder at the High Court in Palmerston North.
A warning, some may find parts of Jonathan Mitchell's report distressing.
