Court

A 40-year-old HIV-positive man accused of infecting several people with the virus will face eight further charges when he reappears in Auckland District Court today.

Traces of DNA from two unidentified men were discovered on underwear found in the car boot which contained the body of An An Liu, a court was told today.

A trial date has been set for three people charged with murdering Wairarapa man Paul Irons, who died after a brutal beating last year.

A Thai tiler told a jury he was asked by Taito Phillip Field not to tell police about work he was doing on his house in Samoa in exchange for a work permit.

A Rimutaka prison guard, accused of dealing cannabis to inmates, has been remanded to appear in court in two weeks.

A man has appeared in court over a serious attack on a prostitute in central Christchurch in May.

The Court of Appeal says the police must pay compensation, back pay and legal costs awarded by the Employment Court last year to a policeman hounded out of the service.

Two brothers who admitted assaulting Prime Minister John Key at Waitangi in February, were today each sentenced to community work.

The man who twice shone a green laser into the cockpit of a plane as it approached Wellington Airport has been found guilty of causing unnecessary danger to the flight.

A Rotorua woman accused of assaulting a one-year-old baby who later died had her identity revealed today.