A woman who partially blinded a Hawke's Bay policeman after kicking him in the head and eye in July last year has been jailed for more than six and a half years.

Anonymous tipsters responding to an appeal for information on a vandalism attack have given police new leads on the murder of Feilding farmer Scott Guy and police have reiterated that information will be treated in confidence.

A sentence of home detention for a bar owner who killed a patron is a "mockery" to the family, the victim's father says.

The man accused of murdering Carmen Thomas faces 132 witness statements, 19,000 pages of evidence and CDs containing bugged phone conversations.

Going public today with images of graffiti found on murdered Manawatu farmer Scott Guy's house has led to a number of calls to police.

Police investigating the murder of farmer Scott Guy are pursuing a new lead linked to a vandalism attack on his Feilding property.

Members of the public wept in court today upon hearing a 3-year-old had over 80 marks or wounds when she died.

The man police accuse of murdering two people at a multi-million dollar Auckland mansion last month says he acted in self defence and "emphatically denies" murder charges, his lawyer says.

Three Dunedin police officers were injured in an attack last night, the second such incident in 24 hours.

A man who allegedly beat his stepmother's brother so badly he died following a clash at a South Auckland property has been arrested and charged with murder after an eight-day manhunt.

The family of an elderly woman murdered in her home want mandatory post-mortem examinations carried out on people found dead alone, after her killer almost got away with it.

A man who allegedly beat his stepmother's brother so badly he died following a clash at a South Auckland property has appeared in court to face a murder charge.

A man found guilty of murdering his elderly neighbour has avoided a term of life imprisonment due to a 'serious psychotic illness.'

A Christchurch man accused of murdering a 21-year-old mother appeared in court today.

A traditional Thai funeral was held for the man that died after a savage beating last week.

A drug addict and alcoholic who broke into the Christchurch home of a 62-year-old widow and bashed her to death in her bed for a couple of hundred dollars was jailed for life today.