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A Mt Maunganui man has been jailed for 18 months over a GST scam that saw him pocket about $39,000.

A defence witness says she saw Nai Yin Xue driving a car with a woman and child as passengers the day after prosecutors believe he murdered his wife An An Liu.

A man reappeared in Auckland District Court today charged with the murder of a 48-year-old Thai woman whose body was found in the Auckland suburb of Western Springs on May 12.

A convicted murderer's application to appeal his conviction for killing two people, by driving his car into a crowd in Auckland, has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.

A Wellington man was banned from ever having a pet again after animal welfare inspectors found his untreated cat with parts of its face ripped off.

A man charged with murdering his teenage cousin after a fight in Poverty Bay has been released on bail after appearing in Gisborne District Court today.

Two people have been remanded in custody after they appeared in court accused of killing Hamilton man Piki Kingi. 

A lawyer for Nai Yin Xue has raised questions in his High Court murder trial about whether an accident in a sex act could be responsible for his wife's death.

A Thai tiler who claimed that he was asked by Taito Phillip Field to work on his house in Samoa in exchange for a work permit was today accused of telling lies.

Repeat sex offender Stephen John McDonald has won an appeal to have his sentence of preventive detention quashed.