Rob Kidd

It's escaping from prison without technically escaping from prison.

For nearly 40 years, the victims of a Clinton sexual predator have waited for justice.

If Drew Cairney planned to get away with drink-driving, a near head-on collision with police was not the way to do it.

A man who allegedly attacked the Dunedin City Council’s Civic Centre had discovered, only hours earlier, that the driver who killed his daughter walked away with a clean record.

A fruit picker from New Caledonia preyed on two intoxicated, sleeping women on the same night, a court has heard.

The star-studded judging panel for the Otago Daily Times’ prison creative-writing competition can now be revealed.

A man who shoplifted ammunition days before the Christchurch mosque attacks’ second anniversary says he feels like "scum".

A gang enforcer who repeatedly beat a prospect as part of a "conditioning ritual" will likely serve his time behind bars without early release.

A teenage refugee was subjected to protracted, livestreamed beatings by her own family after supposedly bringing shame on them, a court has heard.

A former gang member found with two sawn-off rifles says he has left the outlaw lifestyle behind.

A rapist who got a job volunteering for Christian charity when he struck again will have his sentence appealed by the Solicitor-general.

The mastermind behind a $500,000 Dunedin cannabis ring has been locked up for three and a-half years.

A man accused of smashing up the Dunedin City Council's reception area before he was subdued by armed police allegedly threatened to kill a judge and a high-profile lawyer.

A driver who fatally reversed over his mate at a truck stop will pay his victim’s family $15,000.

A dog that mauled a woman outside a Dunedin gig had bitten a child’s face two years earlier, a court has heard.

A man who targeted some of Dunedin’s most salubrious suburbs during a lengthy burglary spree has been released from prison.