Teina Pora's grandson is just a little older than his daughter was when Pora was sent to prison in 1994 for the rape and murder of Susan Burdett two years earlier. Teina Pora with grandson Benson Bennett. Picture / Sarah Ivey

A man who stabbed a fellow partygoer through the eye with such force that the knife embedded in his skull has today been jailed for more than eight years.

Understandably, there has been much comment in the media concerning the tragedy in Dunedin involving the killing of two children by their father.

Sarah Godwin's son has been missing for 21 years - but she is sure she will see him again, despite some unwelcome news at Christmas.

The family of an Auckland man killed as he intervened in an attack five years ago have called on Kiwis to live up to his legacy.

The funeral for Bradley and Ellen Livingstone today was more akin to a festival of celebration, as family, friends and pupils dressed in bright colours as a tribute to Ellen, known for her 'quite out there' fashion sense.

A service to remember slain Dunedin children Bradley and Ellen Livingstone tomorrow will be a bright and colourful celebration of their lives.

Most cases of domestic violence involve physical or sexual abuse; but increasingly, that abuse is preceded or accompanied by psychological abuse as well, writes Bryan Gould.

The BBC will be plunged into a fresh crisis with a damning review that reveals staff ignored the rape and sexual assault of up to 1000 boys by Jimmy Savile.

Forensic results are due this week from a mysterious death at a hospital where a woman may have been intentionally poisoned.

An emotional Judith Collins has revealed her personal pain at the loss of a cousin, murdered when her husband breached a protection order.

A mum viciously attacked on her daily walk is furious that up to a dozen witnesses refused to intervene.

Authorities missed many red flags before Bradley and Ellen Livingstone were killed by their father in their Dunedin home.

A New Plymouth district councillor has taken down a video of an altercation involving roadside window washers.

St John is considering installing security cameras in its ambulances after one of its paramedics was assaulted in a staged attack.

A crackdown on drunken violence in Sydney was a factor in the two-year jail sentence handed to former Warriors prop Russell Packer for an assault conviction.

The wife of a man accused of bashing his teen daughter, then forcing her to hide her injuries behind a burqa, denies failing to seek medical attention for the girl.

A father has denied criminal charges laid over allegations he beat his daughter and then imprisoned her at home to hide her injuries, which included a broken nose and broken tooth.

"I stood up and then bang, (Packer) hit me straight away." The young man assaulted by NRL player Russell Packer has spoken exclusively to the Herald.

A teenager has been arrested after a man was stabbed in the stomach in Central Auckland early yesterday.

A witness who saw the injuries inflicted on a pair of teenaged tourists says one of them was barely recognisable after the Boxing Day attack.

Four teenagers charged over a vicious attack on two German tourists will remain behind bars until their next court appearance.