Police protect judges at home from 'intimidating' protesters
Judges are being protected at their family homes by police as angry dads protest outside with placards and megaphones. A group of fathers, many of whom are disgruntled at losing custody or visitation...
View ArticleWhanganui shoplifter swaps home detention for a spell in prison
After serving four months of home detention, a Whanganui woman has decided "she didn't want to put her family through the stress" and would rather go to prison. Natasha Nuku was convicted of...
View ArticleTeen who plotted terror attack has taken up golf
A Christchurch teenager convicted for plotting to launch a terror attack has taken up golf as he continues his rehabilitation. The youth, now 18, who didn't go through with the plan to ram a car into a...
View ArticleJailed Auckland mum sold teenage daughter more than 1000 times as sex slave
One of New Zealand's most sickening criminal cases, just the third conviction for slave trading in the country's legal history, can now be revealed. A mother of a teenage daughter has been jailed for...
View ArticleMan charged with stealing $60K of Warriors gear
A man has been charged with stealing $60,000 worth of gear belonging to the Warriors league team. The Herald can reveal that a 38-year-old man has been arrested and charged. He will appear in the North...
View ArticleHow teen sold as sex slave unmasked her mother
Kasmeer Lata was jailed yesterday for keeping her teenage daughter as a sex slave and selling her to men some 1000 times. The Herald explains how she was unmasked. The story of one of "the most...
View ArticleRepeat sex offender threatens to give 'many people HIV, HEP C' if released
An HIV-positive recidivist child sex offender freed on parole with a new name and identity is back behind bars after she was caught trading sexual services for methamphetamine. And she has begged...
View ArticleDuckmanton murderer to be sentenced today
Sainey Marong will be sentenced this morning to a minimum of ten years behind bars without parole for the murder of Christchurch woman Renee Duckmanton. Almost two years on since Christchurch...
View ArticlePregnant woman lied to keep baby's father out of prison
After hearing the father of her unborn child was facing a jail term, a Dunedin woman went to police and lied in a bid to clear him. Haley Marie Thom, 26, told officers her partner was home with her on...
View ArticleMarong to serve minimum of 18 years for murder of Renee Duckmanton
The mother of 22-year-old Christchurch woman, Renee Duckmanton, today told her killer as he was jailed for a minimum of 18 years, "I hope you rot in hell". Gambian-born butcher Sainey Marong has today...
View ArticleDriver found guilty of manslaughter in crash that killed four people
A man whose driving in an illegal street race contributed to the deaths of four people has been sentenced to 12 months home detention. Dylan Cossey, 21, was also ordered to complete 400 hours community...
View ArticleHomicide investigation takes a different turn
Police investigating an Auckland homicide now say there was no murder. Rory O'Neill, a Killer Beez gang member, had just got out of prison when he was discovered dead in November at a Blockhouse Bay...
View ArticleDannevirke man sentenced for ISIS propaganda, child sex abuse images
A 20-year-old Dannevirke man who admitted to possessing ISIS propaganda and child sex abuse material has been given community detention. Jordayne Evan Thomas Madams, a young Maori man who converted to...
View Article'Creep catcher' appears in court over online videos
A self-proclaimed "creep catcher" has appeared in court, asking for more time so that he can apply for legal aid. Connor Bevins is accused of posting five videos online that breached the Harmful...
View ArticleGovt pays over 500k in compensation to wrongly imprisoned man
The Government has paid more than $500,000 compensation to Tyson Gregory Redman, who was wrongfully convicted of a gang-related group assault when he was aged 17. Redman, who is now about 30, spent two...
View ArticleTaxi driver stabbed with screwdriver in Otara
A taxi driver was stabbed in Otara last night. Police were called to Preston Rd at around 11.19pm after the driver escaped on foot from after being stabbed with a screwdriver. The driver was taken to...
View ArticlePolice yet to make arrest over screwdriver stabbing of taxi driver in south...
Police are yet to make any arrests after a taxi driver was stabbed with a screwdriver in South Auckland. The driver was attacked after dropping two people at a Preston Rd home in Otara at about 11.20pm...
View ArticleMan jailed for sex attack on drunk mate
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT A West Auckland man who was acquitted three times since 1990 of violating young, drunk vulnerable men he befriended has now been jailed. Glendene man...
View ArticleMan described as NZ's 'first serial killer' released from prison
A man described as New Zealand's first serial killer has been released from prison. Triple murderer Hayden Poulter's been in prison for the last 21 years for killing a prostitute, a massage parlour...
View ArticleFather found guilty of murdering his baby daughter
Donovan Michael Duff has been found guilty of the murder of his 9-month-old daughter. Duff has been on trial in the High Court at Rotorua where he faced a charge of murdering Maija Puhi Duff at their...
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