Court

A young Wellington man was today acquitted on grounds of self defence of stabbing another man in the back.

A 41-year-old man accused of abducting a teenage girl in July will face a depositions hearing in Tauranga District Court early next month.

Within an hour of police finding dying British tourist Karen Aim, the name of the boy now accused of her killing had been raised in connection with the crime, a court was told today.

A Taranaki farmer has appeared in court charged with making threats, after a white powder was sent in the mail to Parliament.

The 15-year-old youth charged with the murder of Scottish tourist Karen Aim in Taupo told a security guard a Rotorua gang prospect had bashed her, Taupo Youth Court heard today.

Acts of flogging and scarring of teenage girls have been described at a Christchurch District Court trial where a man faces indecency charges.

A Taupo security officer told today how he came across a dying Scottish tourist Karen Aim as he investigated an early morning alarm at a Taupo college.

A woman who did a midnight runner in her nightclothes after her husband armed himself with a baseball bat wants him back home.

A 29-year-old man appeared in Gisborne District Court this afternoon facing five charges in relation to a sex attack on two teenage English tourists in the tiny east coast seaside settlement of Tok

Two police officers involved in a cover-up following the death of an Auckland man have been jailed for 15 months in Manukau District Court.