KYNA McAuley, accused of kidnapping and torturing a woman at Mount Hutton in 2021, has admitted to punching the woman in the head in the back shed but said she then left and had no idea the woman was being detained, a jury has heard.
The woman last week gave evidence in the trial of two of her accused captors, Ms McAuley and Madden Paynter, telling the jury she was repeatedly assaulted and threatened, tied up, struck in the head with what she thought was a hammer, had her teeth knocked out, burnt with a cigarette and had boiling water poured over her head during the 24 hours she was held in the shed in Kestrel Avenue on May 5 and 6, 2021.
