Ambush, car theft in honeytrap

A 20-year-old woman with a previously clean record may be off to jail after luring a man into a violent assault which ended with his car being stolen.

Madison Rose Lind bit her lip in an unsuccessful effort to hold back tears in the Palmerston North District Court on Friday when Judge Gregory Ross said he was remanding her in custody until her sentencing.

Lind had pleaded guilty to being party to a robbery and unlawfully getting into a car.

On July 3 she sent text messages to a male, saying she wanted to hang out with him.

He picked her up in his Honda Integra and they went somewhere to have some drinks. While spending time with him she was also texting another man, telling him what was going on.

She asked the man she was with to take her to a property just after midnight on July 4.

Once there, they both got out the car and the man Lind was texting punched the man she had been with. The victim hit the ground and the man proceeded to repeatedly stomp on his stomach and punch him in the head.

He was dazed but alert enough to see Lind and the other man get into his Integra, worth $4500, and drive off.

Police eventually found the car in Dannevirke, where it had been sold.

Lind told police she did not set up the robbery and could not remember anything about the incident because she was a drug addict.

Defence lawyer Mike Ryan unsuccessfully applied for bail.

The judge called for a presentence report to see if home detention could be served, but warned Lind she was at real risk of going to prison. He also gave her a first-strike warning for violent offending.