Man with gang links jailed for aggravated robbery at Christchurch court...
Caleb Kara claims he had gone to an address with three men to "move furniture". The police called it aggravated robbery. That was part of the enigma that emerged at the Christchurch District Court...
View Article'It was scary': Witnesses fear for their safety as bike gang drives on wrong...
Witness footage has revealed Tribesmen gang members driving recklessly into oncoming traffic and illegally driving on the wrong side of the road. Bernhard Schweighofer claims to have seen a group of...
View ArticleFive people injured during central Auckland gun fight
Five people received injuries last night following a gun fight on Sandringham Rd Extension, central Auckland. Officers were called to the scene near the Wesley Community Centre, around 10.30pm to...
View ArticleWoman hit with bottle in Dunedin still has glass shards in face
A woman who was bottled in Hawksbury Village last year still has shards of glass from the attack embedded in her face, a court has heard. Alice Jessica Raffills, 33, pleaded guilty to disfiguring with...
View ArticlePolice and Tauranga Boys' College won't investigate Pinky Green's sexual...
When Craig O'Dwyer's teacher asked him if he wanted some weekend work involving the pair beating each other and discussing the effects for an Amnesty International study, the 15-year-old politely...
View ArticleWaikato Expressway gang attack: 'They were wild – it was petrifying' says...
A motorist who witnessed part of a horrific attack on the Waikato Expressway on Friday where gang members drove erratically on both sides of the road before a man was badly assaulted said the incident...
View ArticleCovid-19 Wellington protest: Frontline police officer says it was a 'war zone'
As police moved to shut down the 23-day anti-mandate protest on Parliament's lawn, a riot broke out amid fire, violence and mayhem. A detective, injured after a protester hurled a heavy paving stone,...
View ArticleFour arrested after police chase through Auckland to Waikato
Police have arrested four people after an intense car chase that went from Auckland to Hamilton. A police spokeswoman said a vehicle that was reported stolen was located by police in Greenlane just...
View ArticleWaikato Expressway gang attack witness: 'They were wild – it was petrifying'
A motorist who pulled over and was attacked after being swarmed by a gang of bikies on State Highway 1 remains in a critical condition today - as a gang expert says a number of factors contribute to...
View ArticleTeens partied in Mt Roskill community centre car park before gunshots heard,...
Neighbours of a Mt Roskill community centre said they cowered in their homes as the sound of gunshots rang out in darkness after a large teenage gathering in the car park. Police are investigating...
View Article'Bandana burglar' who terrorised Otago students named
His name is Nicholas Scott Kerr (33) and he was the masked bandit who burgled 12 Dunedin student flats. Two judges declined to suppress Kerr's name, making it possible to now reveal his identity. In...
View ArticleMayor lashes out at 'morons' behind horrific attack on Waikato Expressway
Waikato mayor Allan Sanson has lashed out at the "morons" who horrifically assaulted a motorist in his district in broad daylight, calling for greater consequences for the gang members behind these...
View ArticleRena Joyce murder trial: Jury retire to consider verdict in case of woman who...
The jury in the trial for a woman charged with murdering her partner and dumping his body in a compost heap at his Christchurch property has retired to deliberate their verdict. This morning the jury...
View ArticleRena Joyce found guilty of murdering partner Martin Berry, dumping body in...
A jury has found Christchurch killer Rena Joyce guilty of murdering her partner and dumping his body in his own compost heap. While Joyce admitted killing Martin Berry, she denied there was murderous...
View ArticleBrothers say stepmother often hit them with metal spatula until they bled
A teenage boy claims his stepmother often spanked him and his brother with a metal spatula until their buttocks bled. But the woman's lawyer says the alleged years of beatings never happened. The...
View ArticleCentral City shooting prompts call to reopen downtown police station
City centre residents want a police station returned to downtown Auckland following a shooting that left three people seriously injured earlier this month. Only metres away from the former downtown...
View ArticleBiker gang attack: Victim still 'fighting for his life', says relative
The relative of a motorist who was attacked by a gang of bikies says he remains "fighting for his life" in intensive care four days on, and his heartbroken family are at his hospital bedside hoping he...
View Article'Depraved' Christchurch businessman who filmed himself raping child appeals...
A Christchurch businessman jailed for a raft of child sex abuse charges, including repeatedly filming himself raping and abusing a young girl, will appeal his sentence. And he continues to fight to...
View ArticleHome detention allowed for commercial cannabis grow
A cannabis grower moved into a rented warehouse during the 2019 Covid lockdown so that he could tend the valuable crop growing there. The two men who grew the crops there – an estimated total of...
View ArticleWhanganui man admits using social media for the sale and supply of narcotics
A Whanganui man has admitted using social media in his role in the sale and supply of class A and class B narcotics. Jeremiah Peipi appeared before Judge Jonathan Krebs in the Whanganui District...
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