
Murder accused appears in court
The man accused of murder after his wife's body was found burning on a roadside near Huntly last week has reappeared in court.
The man accused of murder after his wife's body was found burning on a roadside near Huntly last week has reappeared in court.
The man accused of murder after his wife's body was found burning on the roadside near Huntly is facing three charges, including one of assault in December last year.
The husband of the woman found burnt to death near Huntly last week has arrived in Auckland on a flight from Fiji, accompanied by NZ police officers. He is likely to be charged with her murder.
Davesh Sharma, the husband of the woman who was found burnt alive near Huntly last week, is on his way back to New Zealand.
The woman who died after she was doused in accelerant and set alight will be farewelled at a service in Fiji today.
Fiji police have refused to confirm that a man wanted in connection with the death of his wife near Huntly last week has been caught.
Honour killings have taken place in New Zealand, a spokesperson for an ethnic women's group says.
A young mother left burning to death on a rural road was in a violent marriage to a man now the focus of an international manhunt.
Police have launched an international search to find the husband of a woman burned to death by the side of a Waikato road last week, after he flew to Fiji with their four-year-old son the day after her body was found.
The husband of a woman found burned to death next to a Huntly road last week fled overseas with the couple's four-year-old son the day after her body was found, say police.
Police have identified the woman found burned to death next to a Huntly road and say her husband - who left NZ with their son on Friday - is a person of 'considerable interest' to their investigation.
A woman whose body was found burning by a remote Waikato road was alive when she was set on fire.
Police believe they have identified a woman found on fire on Thursday evening, and that an accelerant was used to start the blaze.
A run-in with a ride-on mower is being blamed for keeping the Maori King from at least one high-profile event.
Six people have died in five separate Labour Weekend accidents in Wanganui, Southland, Canterbury, Hawke's Bay and the Waikato.
Waikato residents renewed their calls for a commuter rail service between Hamilton and Auckland with staged sit ins at train stations on Saturday.