Justice

Wairarapa rapist Jareth James Fittall, 23, was sentenced in Wellington District Court this morning to two years and eight months in jail.

A Wanganui man was today jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for kicking to death his partner's 2-year-old son.

Sentencing has had to be delayed in an historic Christchurch case -- New Zealand's first second strike violent offender.

Rotorua artist, carver, and tattooist Christopher Allan Heenan has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Ruakawa Newton.

A man found guilty of beating his estranged partner to death will serve at least 19 years in jail.

Two convicted murderers will remain behind bars after the Parole Board rejected requests for release.

An Auckland computer programmer who strangled his Thai sex worker girlfriend last year will serve at least 11 years in jail.

A drunk driver who killed a 69-year-old woman picnicking with a friend by a Kapiti Coast roadside has been jailed for 4-1/2 years.

A former army sergeant who raped a 4-year-old girl was jailed for 10 years today.

A judge has told a woman who paid to have her daughter's partner beaten up, but who instead was killed, that her three-year prison sentence would have been far longer had an attempt to call off the hit not been made.

An all-night party at a Marlborough Sounds camping ground by youths revving their vehicles and playing loud music through the night was the final straw for an engineer who threw human faeces into their car, a court has been told.

A schizophrenic 40-year-old man has been jailed for a "barbaric" sexual attack he referred to as "make-up sex".

A prolific burglar who ransacked his own children's school at night has been jailed.

An aggrieved postal worker who tried to settle a score with her superiors by stealing items pre-Christmas was sentenced to community work today.

A man has been jailed for almost a year after charging nearly $250,000 to Sir Peter Jackson's American Express card.

A man who admitted committing two burglaries in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake last year was sentenced to a term of community work.

A woman who partially blinded a Hawke's Bay policeman after kicking him in the head and eye in July last year has been jailed for more than six and a-half years.

An Auckland man accused with killing his former partner, whose dismembered body was found in plastic containers in the Waitakere Ranges, was further remanded in custody today.

A disqualified driver who killed two young passengers as he fled from police in Auckland last year was today jailed for six and a-half years with a non-parole period of three years.