Christchurch police looking for public's help after brutal assault
A security guard has lost the vision in one eye after a vicious assault. On Police Ten 7 tonight, Christchurch police asked viewers to come forward with information about the assault at Riccarton Park...
View ArticleBig Read: Andrew Little on why prison don't work
Minister of Justice Andrew Little has laid out a vision for criminal justice reform which sees sentencing law relaxed and a rejection of "tough on crime"-style politics. His comments during an...
View ArticleConnor Morris murderer loses appeal again
The man who killed gang member Connor Morris with a "sickle" during a street brawl has again failed to have his murder conviction overturned. Michael Murray, 36, was jailed for at least 10 years for...
View ArticleHow Sainey Marong came to murder Renee Duckmanton
It was the sheep's tongue beside the smouldering corpse that baffled most. Flaccid, grotesque bluish gristle, it seemed so out of place yet somehow so inexplicably linked. Detectives noticed it two...
View ArticleOctagenerian scammer selling fake birth certificates
A convicted immigration scammer is back selling fake citizenship certificates to overstayers desperate to stay in the country. Amato Patira Hoani Tohu Kake Akarana-Rewi, also known as Dan Davis or...
View ArticleMan escapes punishment after threatening debt collector
A frustrated man who "blew his top" at a call centre operator and threatened to "exterminate" them after being mistakenly chased for a debt has escaped serious punishment from a sympathetic judge....
View ArticlePaedophile Phillip John Smith loses right to wear his wig
Convicted killer and sex offender Phillip John Smith doesn't have the right to wear a wig in prison because it doesn't trigger laws surrounding rights to expression, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The...
View ArticleMinistry of Justice left with no crime goal
A change of government has left the Ministry of Justice without a short-term goal for reducing serious crime rates, politicians have been told. But officials at the ministry and Corrections are backing...
View ArticlePrisons won't run out of room: Chief
New Zealand's prisons are increasingly making inmates share rooms and the system is "stretched", but jails won't be running out of beds, the head of Corrections says. Chief executive Ray Smith on...
View ArticleRiverhead quarry attacker Colin Mitchell's dark past revealed
The man who abducted, wounded and assaulted a 23-year-old woman at a West Auckland quarry was also found guilty of raping a second woman. And neither attacks were his first time before the courts for a...
View ArticleWoman sexually assaulted while locking car in Mt Albert, Auckland
A woman was sexually assaulted as she locked her car in central Auckland on Sunday night. Detective Senior Sergeant Glenn Baldwin said the woman had parked on Springleigh Ave in Mt Albert, off Woodward...
View ArticleCanadians admit smuggling $22m worth of cocaine on cruise ship
Two Canadians have pleaded guilty to smuggling $22.5 million of cocaine on a cruise ship that entered New Zealand. Melina Roberce, 23, and Andre Tamine, 64, were part of a trio found with four...
View ArticleAuckland media boss acquitted of indecent assaults after women's 'potential...
An Auckland media boss and Queen's Service Medal recipient accused of indecently assaulting female employees has been acquitted, while the presiding judge says the women had "a potential motive to...
View ArticlePapamoa man admits multiple drugs and firearm charges
A Papamoa man caught dealing P and cannabis also had a cut-down sawn-off shotgun and 70 rounds of ammunition in his bedroom, a Tauranga court heard. Ngatote Alan Edwards, 25, pleaded guilty to eight...
View ArticleHelpless brother watched on as sister was shot at point blank range, court hears
After yet another quarrel, Turiarangi Tai grabbed a shotgun and blasted his girlfriend at point-blank range - her nearby brother powerless to stop him - a Crown prosecutor has told an Auckland court....
View ArticleSix in court over $20m cocaine bust
Six people have appeared in the Tauranga District Court following a police raid that netted an estimated $20 million worth of cocaine. Deni Cavallo, 46, Mario Habulin, 46, Matthew Scott, 44, Benjamin...
View ArticleRape trial aborted for rising motorsport star
A rising motorsport star accused of rape and indecent assault has had his trial aborted. Faine Kahia from Taupo was on trial in the Rotorua District Court this week but an application to abort the...
View ArticleName suppression lifted over murder of 14-week-old baby
The identity of a Tauranga man who killed a 14-week-old baby boy can now be revealed. Name suppression has been lifted from Surender Singh Mehrok, 21, who was convicted of murdering Richard Royal...
View ArticleDunedin man guilty of killing best friend following boozy argument
A Dunedin man has been found guilty of killing his best friend following a boozy argument at their home. After about three hours' deliberation, the jury in the High Court at Dunedin unanimously found...
View ArticleDunedin driver causes chaos, crashes
A woman faces multiple charges after a crash, a hit and run, another crash and a pursuit in Dunedin last night. The action began about 10.05pm, a police spokeswoman said, when police went to a crash in...
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