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

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

He said he planned to harm children because his family was being taken advantage of.

After losing $3600 to the rental scam, the couple had to live in emergency accommodation.

Wire Reddington had been on a two-day bender when he murdered Jamie Gill last year.

'This is a court of law, it’s not a court of morals,' the man's lawyer told a court.

“Whatever the victim had done ...(there) was utterly no justification for your behaviour.”

Three people complained of the black substance that smelled like rotten egg.

The group had travelled to Wānaka that morning for a day of sightseeing.

John Arthur used fake ID to pose as a gasfitter for people with boats and motorhomes.

Other women complained he was sexist and racist and wouldn't stop when asked.

The Health and Disability Commissioner found several failures by the midwife.

Police say encrypted messages found indicated the distribution of meth worth $1.54m.

'My mother asked me to ask if I could get them back. She will get upset otherwise'.

Aaron Nicholls couldn't tell a tribunal exactly what he'd spent his client's money on.

She woke in the early hours to a man, who can now be named, 'forcefully' violating her.

Grandmother is said to be 'very cross' about what happened.

Stephen Rolston has been jailed for the 'distressing' abuse which lasted seven years.

About 20 members were inside at the time and many were on their knees praying.

Two JPs found no evidence that the area was properly designated as a footpath.

He stole her car with her baby in it and then dumped the boy on the roadside.

The baby was at the centre of a stand-off over the use of vaccinated people’s blood.

'Only a person who has sold their soul could commit such heinous crimes' - victim.

The judge called a short adjournment to allow the woman to compose herself.

Now the siblings have turned to the country's final court of appeal for access.

The man, who cannot be named yet, threatened to post a woman's naked photos online.

Ashley Peach lured Kerry Downey to his home, then tied her up and strangled her to death.

Bus driven in loops through suburban streets to try to shake Ryan Mills off the chase.

People wearing insignia from at least six different gangs are currently before the courts.

Jason Wharekura maintains he doesn't know his co-offenders, despite his guilty plea.