Trauma cleaning business apologises for graphic social media posts
By RNZ Warning: Story contains references to suicide, sudden death and assault, and graphic details about human remains. A trauma cleaning business that has been posting graphic death-related images...
View ArticleInsanity main issue as murder trial begins for Auckland man who admitted...
"I can't believe my anger led me to commit such a horrific crime." That is what Akash, a then-24-year-old murder convict who goes by only one name, admitted to a judge six years ago as he was...
View Article'I can't take this': Juror's emotional outburst stops rape trial in its tracks
An emotional outburst by a juror hearing evidence of alleged sexual offending against a young girl has resulted in all jury members being discharged after the distressed man refused to carry on. The...
View ArticleHamilton woman's alleged $1.8m fraud: further suppression granted
A Hamilton woman accused of defrauding a business of nearly $2 million has entered not guilty pleas to her charges. The 41-year-old reappeared before Judge Jonathon Down in the Hamilton District...
View ArticleHousing chief says Auckland gun violence among reasons thousands of tenants...
Rampant gun violence is among the reasons 64,000 public housing tenants feel unsafe, a Parliamentary committee heard this morning. Kāinga Ora chief executive Andrew McKenzie said Auckland's firearms...
View ArticleKiller Beez inmate shanks rival gang member after rape and death of his niece
A Killer Beez inmate who shanked a rival gang member in retaliation for the death of his niece after she was raped by the Mongrel Mob has had his sentence reduced after the courts found the term of...
View ArticleThai sex worker trial: 'I'm still waiting for my money back,' man in 90s...
An elderly man who claims to have lost nearly $220,000 to two Thai sex workers has told a court he always expected the women would pay him back. The Waikato complainant, who has interim name...
View ArticleBlack Power teen who took turns raping girl to be released from prison
A rapist who subjected a 16-year-old girl to hours of abuse with three of his friends is about to be released back into the community. Lou Harrison was just 15 when he and Meha Taylor-Haeata, Anthony...
View ArticleGovt communications adviser admits injuring charge
A Government communications adviser has admitted a Christmas Eve assault at a Christchurch bar in which it is understood a man's ear was injured. Joel Ineson pleaded guilty in the Christchurch...
View ArticleNaked man at New Plymouth beach approached teen girls
A 61-year-old man has been banned from visiting New Plymouth beaches after one trip to the shore saw him approaching teen girls while stark naked. On the afternoon of January 6, Thomas John Sercombe...
View ArticleChCh man shot at preschool sign with outline of children
Pere Mataiti's target practice on pre-school signs that included the outline of children has cost him $521. The sign, across busy Papanui Rd from Mataiti's house in Merivale, was so peppered with...
View ArticleCar was rammed repeatedly as women tried to get away
A Rangiora man has admitted using his car to intimidate and ram the vehicle of two good Samaritans who were rescuing his partner after an argument at the Ashley River, in North Canterbury. The three...
View ArticleKingsland bar brawl: Shooters Saloon patrons fight back with chairs
Kingsland bar patrons fought back with chairs against a group of people armed with cricket bats during a violent brawl that ended with gunshots. The manager of a nearby property said CCTV footage...
View ArticleOffenders left in limbo after Corrections suspends community work
Community work has been suspended in some parts of the country considered at high risk of Covid - a move that has resulted in at least one offender being able to complete his sentence without having...
View ArticlePolice officers filmed dragging naked protester by her hair on Parliament...
Two police officers have been filmed dragging a naked female protester by her hair at Parliament grounds today. Footage sent to the Herald shows the officers dragging the naked woman from the protest...
View ArticleAkash murder trial: Emotional testimony as parents of slain woman recall her...
On the last morning of Gurpreet Kaur's life, her mother dropped the 22-year-old at the Manurewa train station as usual so she could spend the day studying early childhood education at MIT's Auckland...
View ArticleTauranga man sentenced to 13-plus years' prison for violent rape and kidnapping
Warning: Distressing content A man angry a woman wouldn't withdraw a police statement against him retaliated by driving her to a remote property, dragging her from the car by her hair and holding a...
View ArticleMt Roskill homicide: Second man charged with murder of Brian James named
A man who has denied murdering Auckland barber Brian James two nights before Christmas Day can be named. Name suppression for Apisaloma Timoti, who has been jointly charged over the death, lapsed...
View ArticleThai sex worker trial: Hamilton jury begins deliberations over alleged fraud...
A Hamilton jury has begun their deliberations over whether two Thai sex workers defrauded three elderly men of more than $200,000. Nualpan Coxon, 67, and Pornthip Phonkoed, 63, both of Auckland, have...
View ArticleDevonport attack: Faulty lighting at park where woman assaulted
A woman has been left "very shaken" after being seriously assaulted while out exercising on Auckland's North Shore, police say. The woman, in her 30s, was exercising on a walking track at Stanley Bay...
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