Psychiatric test for Chch robbery suspect
A man who allegedly smiled as he told a bank teller he had a bomb and to hand over money will see a psychiatric nurse, a court was told today.
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Fears for Otago courts
Guilty plea in Marceau case
Man sentenced over student's death
A Hamilton man has been sentenced to four and a-half years in jail for manslaughter after a student sustained fatal injuries in an altercation over illegal rubbish dumping.
Hitcher admits murdering driver
A hitchhiker has pleaded guilty to murdering a man who picked him up and offered him a bed for the night.
Home detention for National Finance director
National Finance director Carol Anne Braithwaite has sentenced to 10 months' home detention at a waterfront Auckland property for misleading investors of the failed firm.
Fatal hit-and-run driver granted bail
An 18-year-old man charged over a deadly hit-and-run on Saturday night has been granted bail.
High-profile lawyer Hart struck off
Macdonald's sentence brings 'no satisfaction'
Baby kidnapper pleads guilty
A woman has pleaded guilty to kidnapping a two-day-old baby from a south Auckland hospital.
Neha Narayan, 25, tried to take the infant from Middlemore Hospital on January 4.