Rob Kidd

An East Otago man who attacked a murder accused while behind bars for repeatedly beating up his partner has been jailed for nearly three years.

A bouncer who forcibly restrained his girlfriend when she confronted him over viewing pornography has lost his appeal.

A Mosgiel paedophile will be under the scrutiny of Corrections for the next seven years after he failed to overturn a judge’s decision.

A teenager who spat on his partner, head-butted her and threw her puppy down some steps has shown a "frightening" level of violence for his age, a judge has said.

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.

A 40-year-old transgender woman who used her cellphone beside a man urinating in a public toilets has been ordered to pay him $300 for emotional harm.

A man and woman have been released on bail following a Central Otago drugs bust this week.

A South Otago police officer of 23 years is considering a change of career after a man aimed a rifle at him and pulled the trigger following a high-speed car chase.

A Dunedin thespian's ''crash-diet'' combined with half a dozen wines resulted in a crash of a different kind, a court has heard.

Sentencing a straight-A student to community detention for drug dealing last year, a Dunedin judge said he bet the man would not return to court.

A repeat racer has lost his licence for 18 months after a head-on crash led to an innocent motorist having to be cut from their vehicle.

A Dunedin man was so strung out on drugs he ended up standing on a washing machine brandishing a frying pan, trying to hit a man hiding in a shower.

A Dunedin man who punched his ex-partner because she would not go home with him originally told police it was self-defence, a court has heard.

The Dunedin health professional charged with murdering teenager Amber-Rose Rush has been denied electronic bail.

In a large industrial warehouse near Dunedin's waterfront, about a kilometre stroll from the central police station, Lawrence Andrew Cobb lived.

An Oamaru sex offender is considered so dangerous by Corrections they want to monitor him for the next decade - the maximum allowed by law.

A Central Otago Otago teen who killed his friend in a drunken crash has been told by a judge he now owes it to the victim to turn his life around.