Rob Kidd

A prisoner cleared of a jailhouse murder says he wants to open a barbershop in Dunedin after being released from prison.

Corrections has apologised after a sex offender had to wait more than five years to get treatment while in prison.

A man who stomped on his partner’s head after an argument about cellphone data has failed to have his sentence reduced on appeal.

A Dunedin father of five was running a successful plastering business until “meth got its hooks into him”, a court has heard.

A rural bar manager who crashed her Mercedes after drinking wine came up with a novel way of trying to conceal her crime.

The man behind a failed murder-suicide at a Dunedin holiday park has been denied parole, but may still be out of prison by Christmas.

A man who provided the muscle in the honey-trap robbery of a grieving widower has been jailed for almost three years.

Two years after the former head of southern Victim Support was jailed for child sex offences, he continues to claim his innocence.

A rapist and murderer has been released from prison after spending 19 years behind bars - half his life.

A 43-year-old hairdresser has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Dunedin woman.

A 24-year-old man charged with attempted murder after a shooting in Karitane will have his identity kept secret for at least another two weeks.

When Samuel Mandega Mukundu crashed his car while downing beers, he knew he was going to be in trouble.