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A Turangi man who stabbed his step-son to death was today jailed for life.

New security at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium helped catch a 19-year-old man allegedly stealing from a portable building just before midnight on Saturday.

An uncle of twins Chris and Cru Kahui says he can't remember details of his movements and the whereabouts of his wife and her sister Macsyna King on the night the toddlers received their fatal inju

Hugs and tears. Some forgiveness. An apology, and then life imprisonment for 21-year-old Adam Robert Gempton who stabbed Timothy John Constable to death in August last year.

An unemployed Auckland man who went "totally crazy" and threatened a woman with a knife at Cardrona village in January has been sentenced to 12 months' supervision on one count of assault with a weapon and one of possessing an offensive weapon.

Ryan Jack Capper (21), who had hitchhiked from Auckland, appeared in the Queenstown District Court this week.

A British prosecutor says security camera footage shows a Saudi prince savagely beating his aide in a luxury hotel elevator only weeks before the aide was slain.

Twenty-two-year-old Phillip Bruce Ray Bannan is in custody awaiting sentence in the High Court at Christchurch after admitting two deaths caused by his dangerous driving.