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TWO Lockyer Valley sisters are denying allegations at trial they threatened violence at a rural property while armed with a hunting knife.
A jury heard the confrontation was triggered by a love triangle involving one of the accused.
In his evidence on Monday, the alleged victim said he was able to push the 'bigger girl' over causing her to fall on pebbles outside the front door and drop the knife, after being confronted by the women who tried to push past him into the family house.
Appearing before a jury in Ipswich District Court, Melanie Maree Middleton, 33, and her sister Natalie Ann Middleton, 36, from Helidon, pleaded not guilty to Crown prosecution charges of attempting to enter a rural dwelling with intent at night/threaten violence when armed with a knife at Lower Tenthill on April 17, 2019; and one charge each of doing common assault to Gavin Sutton.