Jury retires in Manning murder trial
The jury has started its deliberations in the Ngatai 'Mellory' Manning murder trial.
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Dunedin man jailed for child porn images on cellphone
Jail for protection breaches
A man has been jailed for 13 months for repeatedly telephoning and texting his former partner in breach of a protection order, only six weeks after he was sentenced for similar offending.
Serial sex offending on boys denied
A 71-year-old Palmerston man is denying allegations he sexually molested 10 different boys over a 30-year period.
Man admits guilt in fatal river plunge crash
A Tauranga man has admitted causing the fatal head-on crash which killed Tauranga father Greg Woledge after his work van plunged off Maungatapu Bridge and into the river.
Man convicted on seven sex counts
A 41-year-old Dunedin man was yesterday found guilty on seven of nine charges alleging sexual offending against three women in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Recidivist drink-driver 'huge risk' to community
Cannabis charges bring 27 months'prison
A South Otago man involved with several people, including his brother, in selling and supplying cannabis in the Milton area in 2012 has been jailed for 27 months.
Dunedin Facebook predator jailed
A Dunedin man who falsified his Facebook profile to contact a teenage boy for sex offending has been jailed for three years and warned preventive detention was a possibility for any future offendin
Thefts were to pay off gang debt
A woman attributed a recent four-hour, $1200 shoplifting spree at several Dunedin shops to a debt she owed a Christchurch gang, the Dunedin District Court heard yesterday.