Jason Frandi, after his arrest for the abduction of a young Oamaru woman 12 years ago, told police he had intended taking the victim to a forestry block to rape her and then kill himself.
Police were hunting for convicted kidnapper Jason Frandi on Saturday, shortly before he is believed to have murdered a Czech tourist.
An intoxicated teenager allegedly stabbed a bouncer in the neck with a screwdriver after the youth was refused entry into a Dunedin nightclub.
A Queenstown sickness beneficiary was fined $3600 for "black market dealing in fish" by Judge Michael Turner in the Queenstown District Court yesterday.
Teenager Lori-Lea Waiora Te Wini has pleaded guilty to the 2008 murder of a retired Opotiki schoolteacher, four days before her retrial was set to begin.
An estimated $1 million worth of cannabis has been seized by police in Hawke's Bay.
An early morning petrol thief drove away from Frankton's Z petrol station without paying for $60 of fuel on Sunday.
A crime spree by a Dunedin teenager was sparked by his synthetic cannabis habit, police say.
One of the six people charged in relation to a Queenstown police drug operation last month appeared in the Queenstown District Court yesterday.
The person who stabbed a man outside a Port Chalmers bar early yesterday remains at large.
Four Spanish tourists are heading home in disgrace after a South Island shoplifting spree that ended at the Rangiora New World supermarket.
Police have asked for the public's help after a man used a stolen credit card to go on a spending spree north of Wellington.
A woman was arrested after punching and kicking a female doctor at Dunedin Hospital at 6.30pm on Saturday, Senior Sergeant Phil McDouall, of Dunedin, said.
Women's Refuge is meeting police today over a decision to drop family violence figures from crime stats.
A Tauranga superette was robbed this afternoon by a woman brandishing a knife.
A man charged with the 2008 murder and kidnapping of Christchurch prostitute Mellory Manning has appeared in court this morning.
Recorded crime has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years, police figures show, and the South is leading the way.
A Dunedin man who bit off part of another man's ear, sparking a vigilante attack which brought him a fractured skull and severe injury to one of his own ears, has been jailed for three years and three months.
Burglars who crept around Dame Susan Devoy's family home while her husband and son slept have left the former world squash champion feeling gutted and "shell-shocked''.
A man who picked his partner's 6-month-old son up by his leg, violently shook him and dropped him on his head has received a sentence of life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for murder.
