Mosque gunman sentenced to life without parole
He is a terrorist, an inhumane and wicked mass killer – a "monster" and "undoubtedly" New Zealand's "worst murderer". And now Brenton Harrison Tarrant will never be released from prison, spending the...
View ArticlePolice setting up $9m facial recognition system to identify people from CCTV...
By Phil Pennington, RNZ Police have been quietly setting up a $9 million facial recognition system that can take a live feed from CCTV cameras and identify people from it. This would push New Zealand...
View ArticleMosque gunman now designated a 'terrorist entity', allows NZ authorities to...
The Government has frozen all the assets of the man convicted of the March 15 mass murder and made it illegal to support his activities. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced this afternoon that she...
View ArticleHeroic Beach Haven dairy owner thwarts robbery with hockey stick
A heroic Beach Haven man thwarted a robbery by standing up to four masked men who stormed into his family dairy on Saturday night. After taking one glimpse of Manav Prasad - a 110kg, 21-year-old rugby...
View ArticleMan charged with murder after Christchurch death
A man has been charged with murder after the death of another man in Christchurch early this morning. Police launched a homicide investigation after a victim was found seriously injured at an address...
View ArticleHomicide investigation launched after 10-month-old baby dies in Auckland
A homicide investigation has been launched following the death of a baby in South Auckland. A 10-month-old was taken from a Manurewa home to Starship children's hospital last night but died this...
View ArticleFatal hit and run: Christchurch gang member Liam Strickland jailed for nine...
A drug dealer high on meth has been jailed for more than nine years after a fatal hit-and-run in Christchurch. Liam Teau Ariki Strickland, 22, was fleeing police in a stolen van when he struck and...
View ArticleSix arrests after investigation into historical sexual offending at Dilworth...
Police have made six arrests as part of an operation investigating historical sexual offending at Dilworth School in Auckland. Auckland City Criminal Investigation Branch have been investigating since...
View ArticleDilworth School: Another arrest after historical sexual offending investigation
Police investigating alleged historical sexual offending at Dilworth School have made an additional arrest today. A 60-year-old man has been charged in relation to sexual violation, attempted sexual...
View ArticlePrison escapee Katrina Epiha escaped from two Corrections officers - one she...
A convicted murderer managed to give two Corrections officers the slip - despite being handcuffed to one of them. Karina Epiha escaped from custody in the early hours of Friday morning and has been on...
View ArticleMan charged after allegedly fleeing isolation by making rope from bedsheets
A man has been charged after allegedly fleeing a fourth storey window of a managed isolation hotel by making rope from bedsheets. Police said they had charged a 36-year-old man for allegedly absconding...
View ArticleDilworth School investigation: Two men accused of indecent assault named
Two of the seven men charged following allegations of historical sex abuse at Auckland's Dilworth School can now be named. They are Alister Grant Harlow and Ian Wilson. Harlow faces one charge of...
View Article100 arrested, guns, cash, vehicles seized in drug raid
More than 100 people have been arrested, 30 guns seized and 1kg of meth discovered in a Waikato drug bust. The haul also included $350,000 in cash and high value motor vehicles and motorcycles after...
View ArticleRaglan campervan murder: Mark Garson admits fatal shooting of surfer
A man who fatally shot an Australian surfer in his campervan parked atop a Raglan cliff has pleaded guilty to murder. Mark Ronald Garson had previously entered not guilty pleas to the murder of Sean...
View ArticleMongrel Mob Waikato leader hits back at police drug claims about his chapter
Police say two recent drug investigations have linked the Waikato Mongrel Mob to methamphetamine manufacture in the region, including a claim that a senior member of the chapter was arrested. The...
View ArticleHeartbreak: Kiwi woman Kate Bell killed by boyfriend in Melbourne
A young Kiwi woman with a "kind soul" has been killed in Melbourne by a man she had just begun a relationship with, a fellow New Zealander who died in a suspected suicide after the murder. The...
View ArticleMan charged after chopping off teen burglar's finger in Piopio, Waikato
A 65-year-old Waikato man has been charged for allegedly chopping off a burglar's finger after two youths broke into his property. The youths entered the property on Napinapi Rd, Piopio, in the early...
View ArticleSex offenders among latest 31 New Zealand criminals deported from Australia
Two more planeloads of Kiwi criminals have been removed from Australia and deposited on our shores. The thirty men and one woman arrived on two charter flights earlier this month after the group racked...
View ArticleText messages result in convictions quashed for Christchurch man found guilty...
A Christchurch man who was jailed for tying, blindfolding, and raping a 13-year-old girl has had his convictions quashed. In 2015 Ian Edward Hitchcock was found guilty of rape and unlawful sexual...
View Article'I trusted him': Ex-teacher jailed for sex with 15-year-old girl
An ex-Christchurch school teacher who groomed and had sex with an underage girl has today been jailed for nearly three years. Daniel Bruce McMillan, 46, was working with youth offenders at Kingslea...
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