Grace Millane trial: Jury to be selected
The jury has been selected for the man accused of murdering Grace Millane. Millane, a British backpacker on her OE, was last seen entering a central Auckland hotel on the night of December 1 last year....
View ArticleTrial begins for Doctor Venod Skantha accused of killing Dunedin teen...
A Dunedin doctor allegedly offered a 16-year-old girl up to $20,000 for sex before later stabbing her to death, a court has been told. Venod Skantha ,32, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of...
View ArticleCrown: Grace Millane died from pressure on her neck
A packed courtroom has listened to a detailed timeline of events before and after Grace Millane's death, which included the British backpacker kissing her alleged killer - and his Google searches for...
View ArticleMurder accused discussed suspects with victim's mum - witness
Two days after allegedly stabbing a teenage girl to death, a Dunedin doctor met the victim's mum and gave her flowers and a card. Venod Skantha, 32, bought the items, his ex-girlfriend Brigid Clinton...
View ArticleRaped, tortured: Mongrel Mob open day reveals hard truths
Former politicians, councillors and abuse survivors are among speakers at a Waikato Mongrel Mob workshop in Hamilton on Saturday. Jared Savage reports Sonny Fatupaito knows the media as well as any...
View ArticleTwo men imprisoned for life for Alex Latimer murder
Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 30-year-old Alex Latimer in September last year. David James Lothian and James Taylor Martin Webby appeared in the High Court in...
View ArticleTeen says Dunedin doctor admitted murder of Amber-Rose Rush
A key witness in the case against a Dunedin doctor has told a murder trial the accused returned from the teen victim's house holding her blood-covered cellphone. The trial for Venod Skantha, 32, enters...
View ArticleAmber-Rose Rush trial: Teen witness accused of implicating Venod Skantha
The defence at a high-profile Dunedin murder trial has questioned the Crown's key witness. Dr Venod Skantha is charged with murdering 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush, who was stabbed in her bed at her...
View ArticleTwo charged with murder of Hornby homicide
Two people have been charged with murder following the death of a man in Hornby last month. Jared Little died at an address on Skerten Avenue on October 20. Emergency services were called to a house at...
View ArticleAmber-Rose murder trial: Key witness admits lying about sex offences
A High Court judge has warned a sexual abuse conviction doesn't mean a witness murdered a teen girl. The key witness in the Amber-Rose Rush murder trial lied to police about sexual offences he...
View ArticleAmber-Rose Rush trial: Victim's blood found on defendant's shoes, car
On a Dunedin doctor's shoe was a droplet of blood which likely came from the teenager he allegedly stabbed to death, a forensic scientist says. She also found what could have been 16-year-old...
View ArticleKiwi sex offender who paid $80 to abuse boy loses fight for permanent...
Warning: This story contains descriptions and language associated with child sex offending. A New Zealand man who paid $80 to sexually abuse a child in a Manila hotel room has had his claim for...
View ArticleWhite supremacist Philip Neville Arps seeks leave to appeal sentence
A white supremacist who spread footage of the Al Noor Mosque attack is seeking leave to bring a second appeal against his 21-month jail sentence. Philip Neville Arps, who compares himself with Adolf...
View ArticlePolice fired 35 shots before taking down Tolu Ma'anaiama in Christchurch
Police officers under fire from an alleged fleeing gunman returned fire with 35 rounds within seconds, taking him down with three shots, a court has heard. A police dog handler today described the...
View ArticleAxe-wielding man robs Canterbury computer store day of owner's wife's funeral
A masked, axe-wielding offender has been arrested after he was caught on CCTV breaking into a Canterbury computer store the morning of the owner's wife's funeral. On Friday, November 15 at around 6am,...
View ArticleAmber-Rose murder trial: Accused offered teens $400 for sex, witness tells court
Weeks before a teenage girl was killed, a Dunedin doctor allegedly molested her and offered her up to $20,000 for sex. A witness told the High Court at Dunedin this afternoon Venod Skantha's interest...
View ArticleAmber-Rose Rush trial: Accused groped a comatose woman, court hears
A Dunedin man on trial for murder groped a comatose woman as she sat on his couch and said he was a doctor and "knew what he was doing", a court has heard. Venod Skantha, 32, has denied killing...
View Article'Beast of Blenheim' Stewart Murray Wilson has appeal thrown out over latest...
Warning: Graphic content and sexual violence themes. Stewart Murray Wilson, the man infamously dubbed the Beast of Blenheim, has had his appeal thrown out after being found guilty of three more sexual...
View ArticleAmber-Rose Rush murder trial: Crown, defence wrap up case in Dunedin
Dunedin doctor Venod Skantha's High Court trial is drawing to a close - where he's pleaded not guilty to murdering 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush last year. Skantha, 32, has spent the past three weeks on...
View ArticleFive charged with murdering Codi Jarmen Wilkinson
Five men have been charged with the murder and kidnapping of Codi Wilkinson, who was found dead at a Bunnythorpe property in September. The five men arrested today are jointly charged in relation to...
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