Court

A man was to appear in court today over the death of another man outside a Blenheim nightclub in August.

Crying, screaming and struggling, a young woman had to be dragged away from a benefit fraudster who was jailed today for two years and five months.

The judge presiding at the murder trial of two teenage girls at the High Court in Rotorua today warned the jury photographs they were to be shown were graphic.

Three men convicted of killing a man in Auckland in what prosecutors said was retribution for a drug robbery were today jailed for a total of 21 years.

Former Christchurch police officer Nathan Thorose Connolly has been convicted on one charge of misusing his authority to get sex from a prostitute.

The brother and father of an Invercargill woman killed in a road-rage incident last year were also dead within 10 months, the High Court at Invercargill was told today.

The half-sister of murder accused Stephen Hudson gave vague statements to police because her family was under immense stress and she did not want to get involved, a court has been told.

Two men have been discharged on Serious Fraud Office (SFO) allegations of dishonesty over a multi-million dollar property deal, in a case that has spent years working its way through the court syst

The killing of retired Opotiki school teacher John Rowe by two teenagers was savage and calculated, a jury in the High Court at Rotorua has been told.

A man who hid a hypodermic syringe in a Wanganui supermarket and claimed there were another nine or 10 concealed in the store has failed to get a reduction in his 16-month jail sentence.