Court

A 50-year-old company director has been jailed for six months after two Hamilton IT companies alerted the Department of Internal Affairs to a collection of child sexual abuse images on his computer

A Wellington High Court jury took less than an hour today to find a 72-year-old man guilty of sexually molesting two young sisters.

The father of two girls out of jealousy falsely accused an elderly man of sexually assaulting them, Wellington District Court was told today.

An Iraqi refugee will return to the High Court for a retrial after a jury could not reach a verdict on five charges that he sexually abused his wife.

Shaun Finnerty-Gallagher looked "really scared" of two Polynesian men he was with the night before he was found dead in Christchurch's Auburn Reserve, a High Court murder trial has been told.

A Taranaki man cleaned blood spots from a Lower Hutt flat, where a woman's body was found stuffed in a wardrobe, while his friend listened to opera in the car outside, a court has heard.

A man who fatally shot a friend after the victim allegedly became violent at the accused's home did so in self-defence, his lawyer says.

A senior public servant has been committed for trial facing an assault charge.

Two men charged with murdering a 16-year-old youth in an Upper Riccarton park also face charges of indecently assaulting him as their five-week trial opened in the High Court at Christchurch today.