Court

A man has been jailed for 13 months for repeatedly telephoning and texting his former partner in breach of a protection order, only six weeks after he was sentenced for similar offending.

A 71-year-old Palmerston man is denying allegations he sexually molested 10 different boys over a 30-year period.

An alcoholic Benhar man with what Judge Kevin Phillips described as ''probably the worst record for recidivist drink-driving'' he had seen in his eight years as a judge, has been jailed for 37 months.

A 41-year-old Dunedin man was yesterday found guilty on seven of nine charges alleging sexual offending against three women in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

A Dunedin man who falsified his Facebook profile to contact a teenage boy for sex offending has been jailed for three years and warned preventive detention was a possibility for any future offending.

The case of a young Auckland man who had sex with a 14-year-old Dunedin girl he met through an online dating site highlighted the dangers of teenagers communicating through the internet, a Dunedin District Court judge said yesterday.

The owner of a dog which chased a sea lion from the sand dunes on an Otago Peninsula beach to the sea has been granted diversion.

Two ''sick-minded'' Dunedin teenagers have been jailed for stealing a pet lamb and beating it to death while high on a hallucinogenic drug.

The actions of a woman who bit the top off her sister's little finger during a drunken fight were ''excessive and quite cruel'' because the sister would be disfigured for the rest of her life, a Dunedin judge said yesterday.

Helen Milner's son caught her crushing up pills the night she's first accused of murdering her husband, a court heard today.

A drunk and high motorist driving a stolen car that crashed into another vehicle, killing a mother-of-four instantly, has been jailed for nearly five years.