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Car dealer using Govt register to 'bully' former customers

Chris Schwartz has also been sending disgruntled customers pictures of excrement.

Estranged daughter awarded $372k after being cut from mother's will

The mother updated her will stipulating she was to be left nothing due to her 'behaviour'.

Bodybuilding industry buff jailed for 'lucrative' steroids, cocaine enterprise

Harvey deposited almost $250k into a UK account then packages of cocaine were intercepted.

'Physically ill': SPCA chief's horror at neglected pet dog's suffering

Young dog Grimlock had to be euthanised.

Man, 27, paid 13-year-old girl $100 for sex acts

He has been jailed again and will remain on the sex offender register for life.

Son revealed as murder-accused of woman found dead in her home

Jennifer Sheehan's family were left 'shocked and utterly lost for words' after her death.

'Poor taste': Brown Nose Day trade mark rejected for bowel cancer fundraiser

Cure Kids objected over concerns it would be confused with Red Nose Day.

'Imperative to survival': Lifejacket call after kayaker's death during fishing trip

His body was found a week later, 60km from where he left in his kayak.

Man ran down teen the same day he was in court for running down elderly woman

He suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries and was left fighting for his life.

'Best estimate': Company told to put $4.5m on hold as redundancy payout dispute continues

Channel Infrastructure laid off 121 workers - and it's turned into a lengthy legal battle.

'Thought he was going to kill me': Victim's fear after gang kidnapping, attack

It took about 18 months for the victim to no longer feel afraid about going out.

'Implausible, even fanciful:' Judge's reaction to man's claims he didn't know goods were stolen

Police seized 6000 stolen items after executing search warrants in Operation Trump Card.

Man extradited to stand trial for assault on partner's late father

A man's lost his bid to stay in NZ and avoid criminal trial across the ditch.

'The abuse of that monster': Court hears rage as paedophile's victims demand justice

Hunt faces preventative detention; court hears of decades-long pattern of abuse.

Family hide camera in elderly man's room, see rest home carers abusing him

Hidden camera footage exposes abuse at Ōamaru care facility.

Luxury estate couple taken to court for refusing to pay levies over unmowed lawn, weeds

The judge likened it to not paying rates because the potholes had not been fixed.

Builder made false insurance claim on $1.3m policy after build was damaged by heavy rain

He told the client he had taken out $2m in cover, but hadn't. Then it rained.

'Crime pays all day': The life and times of a self-proclaimed 'real gangsta' and now convicted rapist

'I just want to get out of here and go back to prison,' he once yelled at the judge.