Dunedin man jailed over child porn
A 33-year-old Dunedin repeat offender was today jailed for 18 months for distributing child sexual abuse images.
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Molenaar's partner appears on cannabis charges
The partner of Napier gunman Jan Molenaar appeared in Napier District Court today on three charges involving cannabis.
Christchurch postie admits to mail thefts
A Christchurch postal worker has admitted stealing hundreds of items of mail over the last six years.
Stephen James Cadigan has been employed by New Zealand Post for 35 years.
Further charges expected for HIV positive man
Remorseful driver, who abandoned relative, gets sentence cut
A Manawatu teenager has had 15 months cut from his jail sentence, due to his remorse for abandoning a badly injured relative in a ditch after a January car crash.
TV3 journalists argue against summons
Lawyers for John Campbell and four other TV3 staff today argued in court they should not be summonsed as witnesses in a possible trial of two men charged with stealing bravery medals from the Waiou
Tourist said victim touched him before alleged attack
A Hungarian tourist accused of beating a 69-year-old man with a banjo and ramming its broken neck down his throat said he was touched on the thigh when he went back to the man's house.
Court security to be stepped up after stabbing
Courtroom security in Wellington will be boosted after a man stabbed himself in the neck in Wellington District Court as he was being sentenced today, the courts minister says.
Further remand for Millie Elder on drugs charges
A legal challenge to a police search warrant relating to drugs charges faced by broadcaster Paul Holmes' stepdaughter Millie Elder and her boyfriend Connor Morris was delayed today.
Chch schoolboy in custody after bashing
A 17-year-old schoolboy who got mixed up with a youth street gang is in custody awaiting sentence for a street bashing and robbery in Christchurch.