Witnesses to Whanganui assault wanted
Whanganui Police are appealing for information about an assault that happened in the early hours of this morning on the path between the War Memorial Hall and the Whanganui City Library. A 17-year-old...
View ArticleFormer Principal in court on decades old sex charges
UPDATED 12.36pm A former principal of a Canterbury school facing child sex charges from the 1990s remains in custody. Michael William Hogan, 54, earlier pleaded not guilty to nine sexual violation and...
View ArticleArmed robbers hold up two Christchurch pubs
UPDATED 5.29PM: Armed robbers have held up two Christchurch pubs this morning. Masked intruders with guns stormed into Embankment Tavern on Ferry Rd at 8.49am. They entered the bar before leaving in a...
View ArticlePolice search for witnesses in relation to an attempted abduction in Onehunga
Auckland Police want to hear from a group of students who may have witnessed a man attempting to abduct a teenage girl in Onehunga. The 15 year old was waiting to be picked up at the Beachcroft Ave bus...
View Article15 year old responsible for CBD warehouse fire
Canterbury police say a 15-year-old was responsible for an arson in a derelict building in Christchurch's CBD last month. The fire at former popular nightspot Sol Square, sent smoke billowing over the...
View ArticleSkeen sentenced to 5 years for Tipene manslaughter
UPDATED 12.23pm The man who killed a promising rugby league player has been sentenced to five years and two months at the High Court in Auckland today. 18-year-old Vincent Angene Skeen was last month...
View ArticleTipene family upset at Skeen sentence
The family of slain man Luke Tipene says they're disappointed with the sentence handed down to the man responsible for his death. Vincent Angene Skeen, 18, was sentenced to five years and two months in...
View ArticlePolice seeking high risk rapist in Canterbury
UPDATED 8.51PM Police have found a man described as a high-risked offender who had allegedly breached his parole conditions. They've been looking for 48-year old Nigel Gately, who went missing from...
View ArticleJudge reserves decision over whether to let journalist in on Scott Watson...
UPDATED 5.30PM Scott Watson is going to have to wait to see if his challenge to the Department of Corrections is going to be successful. This afternoon, High Court Justice Jillian Mallon reserved her...
View ArticleHigh risk man on the run caught in Nelson
A rapist on the run was caught by police in Nelson. He is due in court in Nelson today. Nigel Gately was arrested for breaching his parole conditions and is now in custody. Police would like to thank...
View ArticleChristchurch police investigate bakery sledgehammer robbery
UPDATED 10.14am Christchurch Police are investigation a robbery that involved the use of a sledgehammer. Police say two men broke into a bakery, by using a sledgehammer on the door, at about 1am...
View ArticleAuckland restaurateur jailed for deliberately evading $800,000 tax
An Auckland restaurateur has been jailed for deliberately avoiding paying tax worth nearly $800,000. Zai Jian Liang ran the Tasty Zone Restaurant in East Tamaki with his wife, and filed 113 wrong tax...
View ArticleDriver who killed motorcyclist has jail term quashed
The Chinese driver who'd faced imprisonment for causing the crash that killed a Tauranga motorcyclist at Eskdale near Napier has had her jail term quashed by a High Court judge. On Waitangi weekend...
View ArticleSixty people in Tokoroa party brawl
Four men have been arrested after large brawls involving sixty people in Tokoroa last night. The four fights started just after 9pm and it wasn't until 1am that police managed to disperse everyone. An...
View ArticleCorrections defends placing high-risk sex offenders near kids
Corrections is defending its decision to place two high-risk sex offenders in a Hamilton boarding house where young kids were living, saying staff "did not see any children present". But the department...
View ArticleTrio use gun in dairy robbery
Three people have carried out an aggravated robbery at an all-night dairy in Christchurch. It happened around 3.30am this morning on Ferry Road in Woolston. Police say the offenders threatened staff...
View ArticleBoat body: Murder charge laid
A 52-year-old man has been charged with the murder of John Murray Morton whose body was found in the rear of a boat in Nelson two weeks ago. His body was found in a white boat on August 4. Police...
View ArticleMan shot at Panmure party
Detectives are investigating the shooting of a man after a party in east Auckland. He's been taken to Auckland City Hospital with non life-threatening shotgun pellet wounds, along with another man...
View ArticleMan hit from behind in bus stop robbery
A man has been attacked and robbed at a Christchurch bus stop. The incident happened just after seven last night on Wainoni Road in Aranui. The victim, who's in his late 20s, suffered minor injuries...
View ArticleMan accused of murdering John Morton to appear in court
A man charged with the murder of John Murray Morton will appear in the Nelson District Court court today. Morton's body was found in a boat earlier this month at the Nelson Haven on QE2 Drive. The...
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