Two former patched members of the Rebels Motorcycle Club have been jailed for an aggravated burglary that saw the victim left with his teeth 'broken”.

Bernard Monk and Anthony Peeti​ were jailed for six years three months and seven years four months respectively after being found guilty of the one charge each of aggravated burglary after a trial at the High Court in Rotorua in June.

Three co-accused Jordan Para, Michelle Monk and Odean Thompson were found not guilty and acquitted.

According to the sentencing notes of Justice Simon Moore, released on December 14, the catalyst for the robbery was an attempt by Monk to retrieve a caravan he has stored at a McLaren Falls Rd property owned by an associate, Mark Breingan​.

Monk contacted a number of associates, including Peeti, to assist in its retrieval.

Peeti was one of the first to arrive at the scene on January 25 last year, approaching Breingan.

'They told him [Breingan] that he owed them,” the sentencing notes said.

'Someone struck him from behind. The group then took turns punching him to the face, head and chest.”

Breingan's nephew, who was also at the property, was also attacked and knocked to the ground where 'he was kicked and told to stay down”.

During this time Monk was in Auckland on electronically monitored bail.

Breingan told his assailants that the caravan was not at the property, so the Toyota Hiace belonging to Breingan's partner Lisa Mercer was taken instead when their attackers left.

Moore noted Breingan was left with wounds, abrasions and contusions over his entire body, deep lacerations to his scalp inflicted by a golf club, multiple fractures on the nose, around the eyes, two ribs and two vertebrae.

Bernard Monk and Anthony Peeti were both found guilty of aggravated burglary after a trial at the High Court in Rotorua. Photo: Dominico Zapata/Fairfax NZ/Waikato Times.

'His teeth were broken and he is till to be treated by a maxillofacial​ [mouth, head, jaw, face] surgeon,” Moore said.

'Apart from the physical injuries, he has long term neurological deficits which affect his daily life, such as chronic pain, insomnia, anxiety, PTSD, tinnitus, memory loss and an inability to write.

'His life has been changed forever.”

Moore said Mercer's victim impact statement made for 'disturbing reading”.

'She described the intense physical and mental trauma associated with a group of unknown assailants attacking them in the sanctity of their own home,” Moore said.

'The attack came out of the blue. It was completely unexpected.”

He said the attack had left Mercer fearful of others, mistrustful and hyper vigilant.

She has also relocated to a different city.

Moore noted Monk's lawyer Scott McColgan​ claimed his client instructed others 'only to intimidate” the victims and not to engage in physical violence.

”I cannot accept this characterisation of Mr Monk's offending,” Moore said.

”The victims described the assault as giving the appearance of being planned and strategised. . . the participants went about their business in a fashion which clearly suggests to me this was a co-ordinated and concerted plan, in which the various players knew their respective roles and performed them.”

Moore also said that but for Monk's role, the aggravated burglary would not have happened.

”He was the organiser.” Moore said.

'I am satisfied that he directed them to use violence or at least expected that violence would occur. He must be held accountable for the harm he instructed them to cause.”

Moore also said that while the victims gave evidence about multiple attackers, he was satisfied 'Peeti was one of them”.

-Benn Bathgate/Stuff.