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The Human Rights Review Tribunal has ordered a former caregiver to pay $40,000 damages and costs for inappropriate sexual behaviour with a disabled teenager in his care.

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged with burglary after aviation fuel was drained from an air ambulance.

A Mt Maunganui teenager, who a judge said had made his mother's life "an absolute misery", was jailed today for repeatedly breaching a protection order she had taken out against him.

A 28-year-old former Wanganui man has been arrested and charged with Sunday night's armed robbery of a Wellington brothel.

A 25-year-old man who had just appeared in Tauranga District Court for drunken behaviour went outside where he headlocked and punched a total stranger.

An Iraqi man facing two counts of murder after two bodies were found in an Auckland city apartment complex in July has been remanded in custody until next week.

A man facing 38 sex charges, some of them dating back more than 20 years, is standing trial in New Plymouth this week.

A man tried to abduct an Australian tourist in broad daylight to have sex with her because "a feeling came over him he couldn't resist", Nelson District Court was told yesterday.

The factory trawler Atria - now tied up at Lyttelton - may be subject to a forfeiture bid next month after sudden guilty pleas in a long-running fisheries trial.

A man appeared in Kaikohe District Court this afternoon in connection with a stabbing in the Northland town early on Saturday.