Court

A Hastings teenager accused of setting his friend alight after pouring petrol on him at the teenager's birthday party has appeared in court today.

A jury in the High Court at Auckland has acquitted two men of all charges relating to taking a 15-year-old girl captive and threatening to post on the internet images of her being sexually violated

A Christchurch man who slit the throat of his tetraplegic best friend has lost an appeal against his murder conviction and life imprisonment sentence.

An Auckland jury will resume deliberations today into the case of two men accused of taking captive a 15-year-old girl and threatening to post on the internet images of her being sexually violated.

Two men charged with the armed robbery of a Dunedin convenience store have had their Dunedin court date postponed after they allegedly attacked a Rimutaka Prison guard this week.

A woman who last week beat a murder charge was arrested for stealing a leg of lamb and a box of ice creams just one week before she was to stand trial, it has been revealed.

A former boyfriend of a woman who went missing on the Hauraki Plains eight years ago has appeared in court charged with her murder.

A 17-year-old youth charged with murder has won another extension to a court order preventing his name being published.

The man who murdered Auckland hairdresser Marie Jamieson in 2001 has lost his appeal for a lighter sentence.