Rob Kidd

A Dunedin doctor was the only one with a motive to stab a teenage girl to death and was willing to take “a massive risk” to silence her, the Crown says.

A man has denied a charge of murder but admitted unlawfully taking the victim's car.

A Dunedin doctor told police the theory he killed a teenage girl to stop her destroying his career was "absurd".

Two would-be robbers who went to great lengths to rip off a travelling band were thwarted by an aggressive dog, a court has heard.

Corrections has apologised to the victim of a psychopathic sex attacker after he sent her letters from prison following his arrest.

A Dunedin doctor accused of the murder of a teenage girl told police he never visited her house on the night of her death.

A jury in a murder trial has heard how a Dunedin doctor allegedly molested a semi-conscious woman and threatened another with a machete.

A witness has told a court how a Dunedin doctor twice offered a teenage girl money for sex – just weeks before he allegedly murdered her.

A Dunedin doctor allegedly offered three teenagers money for sex, including one he is accused of stabbing to death.

Weeks before a teenage girl was killed, a Dunedin doctor allegedly molested her and offered her up to $20,000 for sex.

A Dunedin doctor accused of murder allegedly groped a sleeping woman then threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

A month before being stabbed to death, a teenager told her friend a Dunedin doctor had molested her, a court has heard.

A witness says a Dunedin doctor sounded "angry and quite stressed'' just minutes before he is accused of stabbing a teenage girl to death.

For three days, he beat his victim, raped her and hacked her hair off with a knife.

Blood on a Dunedin doctor's shoe and the window of his car was 800,000million times more likely to be Amber-Rose Rush's than anyone else, a court has heard.

A South Otago rugby player has been banned from the sport for life for punching a referee — but his victim says he forgives the player.

Blood on a Dunedin doctor's shoe and the window of his car was 800,000 million times more likely to be Amber-Rose Rush's than anyone else, a court has heard.

The blood of a teenage girl was found in a doctor's car, on his shoes and in a bag in which he allegedly put his clothes, a court has heard.

The teenager whose testimony has painted a Dunedin doctor as a murderer has been revealed to be a sex offender who previously lied to police.