NZ Navy retrieves cocaine from remote Fiji island
A New Zealand naval patrol ship has helped the Fiji Government to retrieve 12 kilograms of cocaine from a remote island - the second cocaine seizure from the same island this month. The inshore patrol...
View ArticlePartner unaware if Kim Richmond wearing Fitbit on day she went missing
Murder accused Cory Jefferies told police he didn't think his partner wore her Fitbit during the period before she went missing. In a police DVD interview with Detective Constable Janine Post played to...
View ArticleBurglars steal 'beautiful' classic car
Zek Campey is holding on to hope that his father's "beautiful" classic Ford Mustang, stolen on his watch of his dad's Ashburton house, will be returned undamaged. The 27-year-old said the 1965 American...
View ArticleGirl fight over a man turns nasty when a knife comes out
Two women agreed to fight over a man; one brought a knife. Tayla Annette Blewden (18) was enraged when she found out the fellow she believed was her boyfriend might be engaged to someone else. So she...
View ArticleBlackmail search leads to child porn find on teen's phone
When police raided Samuel Leigh Ebdell's home they were looking for evidence of blackmail. After analysing his computers they found what they were expecting, but also came across an unanticipated...
View ArticleDunedin man jailed for molesting girl on her birthday
A Dunedin man who molested a 4-year-old girl after celebrating her birthday and called a 10-year-old his girlfriend has been jailed for nearly three years. Stuart Lindsay Edge, 48, appeared in the...
View ArticleAccused's 'disdain' - left partner to 'rot' in vehicle
The level of disdain an alleged murderer had for his partner was so strong that he continued his rouse by letting his daughter text her mother - despite her being trapped, dead in a vehicle in the...
View ArticleRotorua man jailed for two years for 15th drink-driving conviction
A recidivist drink-driver with 15 convictions has been jailed for two years and told by a judge he can only apply for home detention if he lives in a rehabilitation facility. Leonard James Emery, 58,...
View ArticleMore arrests after McLaren Falls homicide
More arrests have been made following the McLaren Falls homicide. Police confirmed this afternoon another three people have been charged in relation to the death of Ngaruawahia man Mitchell Paterson....
View ArticleMan who stabbed Barry Soper's son sentenced
The man who stabbed broadcaster Barry Soper's son has been sentenced to four months home detention, and 200 hours of community work. Jon Gary Edwards, 38, had earlier pleaded guilty to wounding with...
View ArticleKim Richmond murder trial: Jury begins deliberations
A jury has begun its deliberations over whether a Waikato man had murderous intent when he killed his partner in a drunken rage on their way home from a party. Cory Jefferies admits killing his partner...
View ArticlePolice appeal for information following aggravated robbery of West Auckland...
Police are appealing for information after the aggravated robbery of the Royal Heights PostShop in Massey in West Auckland yesterday morning. Just after 9.30am, a person entered the shop on Royal Road...
View Article87yo man kidnapped, robbed, in 'cowardly' Hastings attack
An 87-year-old man is recovering at home from injuries he received after being subjected to an aggravated robbery yesterday afternoon at Countdown supermarket in Hastings. He was approached in the...
View ArticleCory Jefferies guilty of Kim Richmond's murder
A jury has found Waikato man Cory Jefferies guilty of the murder of his partner Kim Richmond. The jury of five men and seven woman in the High Court At Hamilton decided he did have murderous intent...
View ArticleRewa lawyer argues: Pora telemovie jeopardises third trial
Media coverage of Teina Pora's wrongful conviction and imprisonment for the murder of Susan Burdett, including a telemovie last Sunday, has potentially contaminated a third trial for Malcolm Rewa, says...
View ArticleDocumentary reveals new details of Mona Blades cold case
Gangs or associates of gangs are new suspects in the historic Mona Blades case following startling new revelations in a television documentary. The Cold Case documentary, which screened on television...
View ArticleDunedin rally driver Bruce Saxton accused of peeping into student flats
A Dunedin rally driver allegedly peered into the windows of two student flats on the same street within three weeks. Bruce Donald Saxton, 54 – whose occupation in court documents is listed as machinist...
View ArticleHomicide inquiry after stabbed man dies in Greymouth
A homicide inquiry has been launched after a 41-year-old man was found stabbed in Greymouth early today. The victim, who was found on Cowper St, was taken to nearby Grey Base Hospital about 2am but...
View ArticlePolice release the name of the Greymouth man fatally stabbed this morning
Police have named the Greymouth man who was fatally stabbed early this morning as Cyrus Alexis Alupis. A 17-year-old man was charged with Alupis' murder in the Greymouth District Court this afternoon...
View ArticleStop-go killer Quinton Winders loses appeal against conviction for killing...
The man found guilty of murdering road worker George Taiaroa near Rotorua five years ago has lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence. Taiaroa, 65, was shot dead as he operated a stop-go...
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