A dairy assistant was threatened with a machete held against his throat.

I saw a headline. 'Woman murders man for cigarettes,' it read. That woman is my sister.

A man wielding a machete who almost sliced off a man's hand was aiming for his head.

A bride has revealed how her ex-husband attacked her subjecting her to routine rapes.

It took a murdered beauty queen for world to take notice of the 'femicide' in Honduras.

Mini mart robbed for cash and cigarettes by group of people armed with a bat.

Former top cop explains process is important.

'I'm not fighting you!' Jury awards $142,000 to family of girl in school bus assault.

Delia Williams' only son read out an emotional victim statement to the court.

A female Corrections officer has been hospitalised following a scuffle in court.

Police are calling for information on two aggravated robberies in and around Hamilton.

Actress Melissa George breaks her silence on the alleged violent assault that ended her relationship.

A US man has been charged with murdering his university student girlfriend and getting his friend to help dispose of her body.

Beaten boy a shadow of his former self, say worried parents.

Last week, a servo employee helped rescue a British backpacker allegedly held hostage for months. But there are other times strangers have saved lives.

On May 9, 2014, Kahu Vincent was continuously beaten and had his head stomped.

A German backpacker was hit with a hammer while her friend was sexually assaulted.

A US man scalped his girlfriend and ordered his pit bull to attack her.

Police have praised a Papatoetoe woman who came to the rescue of her neighbour.

A brave Papatoetoe mother didn't hesitate to confront three weapon-wielding men who bashed and robbed her elderly neighbour.

Four Otago students were seriously assaulted by non-students.

Wanganui farmer Walter Bolton became the last man to be hanged in New Zealand when he was taken to the scaffold on this day 60 years ago.

Brenda Floyd was turning out lights, getting her 94-year-old patient ready for bed, when she noticed the plate of food on the floor.

Queensland police have laid more charges against the mother of fatally injured toddler Mason Jet Lee and her former partner.

Police renew focus on Pine Beach camp in hunt for evidence

Ex-wife of a former top sportsman speaks of her abusive marriage in a bid to highligh family violence can and does happen in all kinds of Kiwi homes.

A German cannibal killer stands in his sandals and socks in the basement where he murdered and chopped up a willing victim he had met online.

Lois Rita Tolley has been remembered as an "amazing human" after she was found dead in a house in Upper Hutt on Friday.

The details of the first conversation between the father of Olivia Hope and the man convicted of her murder are revealed in a magazine article today.

The family of a Kiwi woman battered to death by her partner in Scotland are outraged by his four-year prison sentence.