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".
Grace Virtue died at the age of 90 due to a brain injury weeks after 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.
Virtue's granddaughter, Samantha Virtue, told the court her grandma was shaken to the core by the incident and deteriorated in the days leading up to her death.
