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Families of victims of Pol Pot's torture prison Tuol Sleng, a few survivors, international media and observers crammed the world's biggest court today as Cambodia's first long-awaited killing field

A Rwandan-born man charged with kidnapping a seven-year-old girl firmly denied knowing anything about the incident in Wellington District Court today.

A policeman who was found guilty in New Plymouth District Court of assaulting his former fiancee may lose his job because of the conviction.

A 25-year-old man and the father-of-four he is accused of murdering got into a fight after both had been drinking, the defendant's lawyer said today.

After suffering years of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, a Victorian teenager accused of shooting him and dismembering his body has walked free.

Two men were jailed today for the 2007 rape of a 19-year-old woman in the backstreets behind Wellington's main nightclub and bar area.

The 18 people arrested in controversial police raids in in October 2007 will be tried in the High Court.

A Whangamata hobbyist beekeeper who accidentally poisoned 22 people has said he will keep making and selling honey.

A sports trainer has been remanded in custody for sentence after a Christchurch District Court jury found him guilty of three sex offences against an intellectually impaired girl.

Young men not doing their community work sentences are presenting judges with problems and sometimes prison is the only option left, says a Christchurch judge.