Emily Moorhouse

A Christchurch pub manager stole $180k in grant funding and put it towards sports groups he was connected to.

A woman subjected to a series of brutal beatings because she had eaten “too much toast” is struggling to shake what she saw in her attacker’s eyes as he meted out his punishment.

A man who chased a schoolgirl through a Christchurch park and touched her inappropriately had done the same to an elderly widow just moments before.

A victim says she hopes the Christchurch man who beat her with a wooden baseball bat and held her at knifepoint because she refused to have sex with him gets the help he needs in jail.

A teenager who fatally kicked a stranger in central Christchurch has been released from prison and placed on home detention.

The man whose company designed the six-storey CTV building that collapsed in the February 22, 2011, earthquake, killing 115 people, has been accused of one of the “worst engineering failures in the country”.

A woman who bought a luxury yacht that was later seized due to money owed on it has told a Christchurch court the man who sold it to her was “the most unpleasant and deceitful person I’ve ever come across”.

A doctor issued medical certificates to some patients, stating the Covid vaccine would not be suitable for them, despite having no sufficient evidence to back up the claim.

A doctor issued medical certificates to some patients, stating the Covid vaccine would not be suitable for them, despite having no sufficient evidence to back up the claim.

A businessman with more than 100 convictions for dishonesty offending, including duping an elderly widow of $20,000 and ripping off a church, has had his jail term reduced.

A 43-year-old man has pleaded guilty to his role in the abuse of a young boy who was found severely emaciated with burns and fractured vertebrae.

A man has pleaded guilty to child abuse after a little boy was found malnourished with fractured bones and burn marks from a cigarette lighter.

A jury is today set to decide what Mark Nicholl snr’s intentions were on the night one of his sons and a family friend were killed in a crash that also seriously injured two of his other sons.

A teenager who killed another teen by punching him in the head has appealed his sentence of three years imprisonment, arguing that the punishment he received is “not a good fit” for the crime he committed.

A 23-year-old Christchurch man who repeatedly beat his friend with a skateboard as he dropped to the floor has claimed he was in “grave danger” and acted in self-defence.

A 23-year-old Christchurch man who repeatedly beat his friend with a skateboard as he dropped to the floor has claimed he was in “grave danger” and acted in self-defence.