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A teenager who screamed she was HIV-positive while biting, kicking and clawing the middle-aged managers of the Carterton Holiday Park said the violent rampage began because she could not accept breaking up with her boyfriend.

Roylene Erana Rota, 19, of Carterton, pleaded guilty in the Masterton District Court yesterday to two counts of assault with intent to injure, two counts of assault, one count of intimidation and one count of burglary following the August 9 incident.

After her arrest, Rota told police she had had difficulty accepting that her three-year relationship with her boyfriend, 24, was over.

She said she had "totally lost it" when she saw her ex-partner with his new girlfriend, 18, after arranging to meet him at Howard Booth Park.

The man and his new girlfriend arrived at the Belvedere Rd park about 7.30pm. Upon seeing Rota, the man told his girlfriend to hide behind a nearby fence.

As the former partners spoke, Rota became enraged when she spotted the girl.

She chased her into a carpark, yelling: "I'm going to get you, I'm going to kill you."

The terrified teenager fled, scaling a fence and hiding in bushes at the Carterton Holiday Park, where she knocked on the office door and was let in by manager Peter Evans.

Rota began repeatedly punching her ex-boyfriend in the face and head as she hurled abuse at him before also asking to be let into the manager's office. Mr Evans told her she was trespassing and to leave the property.

Meanwhile, the man went to look for his girlfriend and was again attacked by Rota.

Mr Evans let him into the office, locking the ranchslider once he was inside.

Rota then tried to climb through a window but Mr Evans shut her out and told her that he was going to call police.

Unperturbed, she tried unsuccessfully to smash through the ranchslider with her bare hands, before smashing the large pane with a torch and reaching around and unlocking the door.

She then smashed a window and unlocked another door, before going past shutter doors leading to the managers' lounge where Mr Evans had taken refuge with his partner and co-manager Di Rongonui and the two younger victims.

"Once inside the lounge a violent and protracted struggle ensued as the defendant went berserk," police prosecutor Sergeant Garry Wilson told the court.

The young woman, by now fearing deeply for her safety, had run down the hallway and hidden in a bedroom.

Rota caused severe facial abrasions when she attacked her ex-boyfriend a third time, "screaming abuse and raking at his neck, face and eyes with her fingernails".

He and the two managers then tried to restrain her when she grabbed two full glasses from a coffee table and hurled them at him.

During the struggle Rota kicked, punched, clawed and bit both Mr Evans and Ms Rongonui, both of whom are aged in their 60s.

She bit Ms Rongonui on her ankle, drawing blood and leaving teeth marks and grazing, and broke her watch.

Mr Evans suffered cuts and grazes above his eye, on his cheek, ear lobe, wrist and hand.

Throughout the struggle Rota "was yelling out that she was HIV-positive and had a number of sexually transmitted diseases".

At one stage the two managers had been able to secure Rota's hands with cable ties but she had snapped them and continued her violent struggle.

When police arrived she was still struggling.

When spoken to yesterday, Mr Evans was philosophical and said the savage incident could have happened at anyone's house.

He said he and Ms Rongonui just wanted to put the home invasion behind them.

Throughout the hearing Rota mouthed and nodded to supporters seated in the public gallery from the dock.

Judge Anthony Walsh convicted Rota on all counts and remanded her on bail to appear again for sentencing in November.