Court

The brother and a friend of the man who killed liquor store owner Navtej Singh have been sentenced for their part in an aggravated robbery of a tinnie house a day before the fatal shooting.

The 22-year-old woman who tried to snatch a two-day-old baby from the St George's Hospital maternity ward is being given a third chance to do her community work sentence.

A 16-year-old charged with murdering 59-year-old south Auckland policeman Denis Phillips has appeared briefly in court.

A police pursuit in Dunedin on Saturday was abandoned when the car being chased allegedly reached 170kmh.

A 25-year-old man was later arrested in connection with the incident.

A man and a woman are to appear in Hastings District Court this morning after a Hawke's Bay police officer was punched, stomped on and had his radio smashed into his face yesterday.

Veteran Maori protester Te Ringa Mangu Nathan (Dun) Mihaka has lost his appeal against a sentence of 28 days imprisonment for calling a judge an "arsehole".

A 16-year-old youth charged with murdering another 16-year-old youth in Oamaru on April 1 was yesterday remanded to appear again in the Oamaru Youth Court on August 12.

A total of two months' home detention was imposed on a Maheno man when he appeared for sentence before Judge Paul Kellar in the Oamaru District Court yesterday on eight charges.

The first prosecution under a Waitaki District Council bylaw introduced a year ago which bans open fires in urban areas cost an Omarama man nearly $2000 in the Oamaru District Court yesterday.

When a drunken brawl broke out early yesterday, police did not have far to go.