Court

An Invercargill accountant has been jailed for two and a half years on charges of tax evasion.

A 33-year-old Napier man was jailed yesterday after attempting to rob a bottle store last year with his 13-year-old nephew in tow.

The jury has retired to deliberate the verdict in the trial of a group of men charged with murdering Wanganui toddler Jhia Te Tua.

The trial of five men charged over the murder of Wanganui toddler Jhia Te Tua today heard closing statements from lawyers for the alleged shooter and a man police say gave the order to shoot.

A Waikato man who sexually attacked a woman before robbing a house and using the phone to call an 0900 sex line has had his sentenced reduced by the Court of Appeal.

The jury was asked today to decide whether a knife was used in self-defence or to vent anger, in the Auckland trial of a man accused of murdering a teenage tagger.

Four people linked with failed finance company Five Star will have to wait over a year before their case is brought to trial.

The five accused of murdering Wanganui toddler Jhia Te Tua knew they were headed to a violent confrontation with one of their party carrying a gun, and should all "share in the consequences", Crown

A 50-year-old man told police that he only intended to wound a tagger he chased with a knife, a jury was told on the second day of a trial in Auckland today.

Two men have been charged after a truck window was shot out on a motorway north of Wellington yesterday.