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An elderly man who is alleged to have raped and sexually abused two girls in the 1970s is facing 19 sex charges.

A "conman without scruples'' who duped his girlfriend into a wedding he never planned to attend has received a second jail sentence for ripping people off.

A man who raped and murdered his ex-girlfriend before setting her house on fire has been sentenced to life in prison.

Baby Cezar Taylor lived for only six months and during that time he had his head smacked on to his walker, was dangled upside down and shaken before being dropped on to his bed, a court has been told.

Baby Cezar rolled his eyes in his head and "wasn't the same'' after his mother's boyfriend slapped him in the back of the head three times and dropped him in his cot, a court has heard.

Baby Cezar Taylor wasn't eating 11 days before he was admitted to hospital with fatal head injuries, a court has heard.

A woman charged with helping her partner kill himself has been allowed out on bail.

A jury has found a man guilty of murdering an 80-year-old woman by stomping on her during a "frenzied and vicious'' home invasion.

Jurors deciding the case of the man alleged to have stomped on an 80-year-old woman during a "frenzied and vicious'' home invasion have retired to consider their verdict.

The mother of a baby found buried in a makeshift grave in Otahuhu has pleaded not guilty to murder.

A woman who stabbed her partner to death at an east Auckland property in December has pleaded guilty.

Residents of a lodging house heard a fight shortly before a man was stabbed in the heart and bled to death in a hallway, a court has heard.

A father who had a pretend gunfight with his three-year-old daughter at their suburban Auckland home sparked an armed offenders squad callout when a neighbour called police.

The man accused of murdering student Kiko Li claims he tried to dissuade his friend from carrying out the killing.