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The man, whose name is suppressed, is accused of breaking a baby's ribs, with an alternative charge of assault in a family relationship.

Erin Patterson was convicted of triple murder for serving a poisonous meal to her estranged husband's parents, aunt and uncle at her home in 2023.

The $700 cat had rotting teeth, weepy eyes, and was underweight.

After his belongings were stolen, and the windows of his car and Kāinga Ora home smashed, Warren John Frederick Lee had had enough.

The young mum revealed that methamphetamine use was driving her thieving.

DeLuney was found guilty of the violent murder by a Wellington High Court jury in July.

The court has been showed detailed footage of the accused's movements over three days from 10 May.

A prominent sportsman, who has name suppression, squeezed the baby after he failed to settle, a Dunedin court has heard.

The soldier, whose name is for now suppressed, was sentenced to two years of military detention.

A jury found Deluney guilty of the murder of her 79-year-old mother Helen Gregory in July.

The lawyer for the man accused of lighting the Loafers Lodge fire says he had not taken his schizophrenia medication for a month.

Maya Moore denies lighting fires at two Wairarapa properties.

The next day, Shamah Riley tried to strangle a prison inmate over a piece of bread.

He told a forensic psychiatrist voices in his head told him to burn the place down, a court has heard.

In the year ended 2024, 4175 prisoners were awaiting trial or sentencing.

The company faced fines of up to $10 million and would be sentenced next month.

The man had been admitted to mental health facilities eight times between 2001 and when the fire was lit.

A church pastor says the Loafers Lodge murder-accused told him he had to run for his life as the Wellington boarding hostel went up in flames.