Court

A 41-year-old Horowhenua man was jailed today for four years for a sexual attack on a 29-year-old man.

A young man caught fighting in a Bay of Plenty street told police he "had to take a stand against people terrorising the neighbourhood."

A 37-year-old man has been remanded in custody on charges of burgling two houses in which police say women were sexually attacked and robbed.

A High Court jury took less than an hour today to find a 26-year-old man guilty of murdering a teenager in South Auckland 2-1/2 years ago.

The timing of the head injuries suffered by a 17-month-old toddler was difficult to determine as the damage could have developed over a period, a consultant forensic pathologist has told Christchur

Slain Porirua man Fitzgerald Risati was a confident, religious man who was "not aggressive at all", the High Court at Wellington was told today.

A middle-aged woman spent her brief few minutes in the dock at Tauranga District Court this afternoon mopping tears from her eyes.

A mother-of-three who admitted supplying cannabis should think of the example she was setting her children, Judge Peter Rollo said in Tauranga District Court today.

Experts have begun days of putting their views on child abuse studies and the particular injuries suffered by a 17-month-old toddler before a Christchurch District Court jury considering injuring a