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Family members accused of manslaughter over the drowning of a mother-of-two during a ceremony to lift a curse may find out their fate tomorrow.

A Thai tiler employed by Taito Phillip Field told a jury today he lived illegally in New Zealand for five years after arriving on a three month permit.

The Marie Davis murder jury today opted to head home early, and to continue its deliberations tomorrow morning.

A Hamilton hotel worker who ransacked the rooms of the touring South African Lions Super 14 rugby team has been sentenced to community detention.

The death of teenager Marie Davis was "plainly a tragedy" but the only proper and safe verdicts were not guilty, the defence contended in its closing address in the trial of Dean Stewart Cameron on

The family of a woman who drowned after water was forced into her mouth and eyes to flush out demons should only be found guilty of manslaughter if they participated in the acts, the High Court in

A Napier woman was today remanded on bail for a depositions hearing next month when she appeared in court on a charge of murdering a man found with stab wounds in a crashed car last Friday.

The trial of a Napier man charged with murdering his new neighbour in a Napier flat 17 months ago has been aborted after two days without any evidence being heard.

A fatal exorcism in a smoke-filled, flooded flat packed with people chanting, vomiting and soiling themselves was either "utter hysteria" or an act of love, the High Court at Wellington was told to