Court claim: How do you wanna die?

“It’s your fault . . . How do you wanna die? You only got ‘til three o’clock.”

Those were the words allegedly uttered to a teenage girl who was tied up, gagged and tortured at an abandoned state house in South Auckland.

Another girl, now 15, with immunity from prosecution, was also present. She told police how Dimetrius Pairama was allegedly murdered and a video of her interview with detectives was played to a jury in the High Court at Auckland yesterday.

Pairama’s body was found in a steel drum at a vacant Housing New Zealand property on Buckland Rd in Ma¯ngere on July 8 last year.

Ashley Winter, also known as Toko Shane Rei Winter, 29, and Kerry Te Amo, 25, are on trial, accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering the 17-year-old.

The teen witness — who cannot be named and was given immunity by the Deputy Solicitor-General — told Detective Constable Frageo Petersen she heard Te Amo beating Pairama.

“[I] saw him go in the room and then I saw him take one punch over here, and then that’s when Ashley closed the door and then I heard, like, her bones breaking,” she said.

“She was crying . . . she just said to stop it, please,” the teen said.

Winter allegedly said: “It’s your fault that I got [suppressed] . . . how do you wanna die? Karma is a b **** ’. How do you wanna die? You only got ‘til three o’clock.”

At three o’clock Pairama was to be stabbed if she didn’t choose to be hanged, the teen said.

The trial continues.