Suzanne Petitt's lawyer says it was just a request for compo for a stolen car.

The court found a 50/50 spilt of their property would be 'repugnant to justice'.

Far North Council CEO Blair King said he felt 'isolated' and lodged a PG in 2022.

Brian Borland told a jury they should find him guilty...so they did.

They spent $16,000 and four months evicting the previous owner who became a 'squatter'.

Crown: Ankle data suggests Tipene Reddington was at the house, not close to murder scene.

The man who shot an unarmed man he thought had come to kill him, can now be named.

Judge Tini Clark: "Their silence does not mean they forgot".

'It snuck up behind us and started attacking my dog' - owner of injured Shih Tzu-cross.

Now a judge has described one of the women involved as a menace to the community.

Jason McNae died in the hospital. The defence claims it was self-defence.

The Court of Appeal has however ordered a retrial for Stephen Stone.

Judge: 'Had you done this right, you probably would have got the inheritance anyway.'

Jamie Gill was drinking with the siblings before his body was found in a paddock.

Now he's been fined after netting $326,000 in a deal he hid from the vendor and his boss.

Natasha Birchfield dragged the victim out of bed by the hair, then bit her arm and eyelid.

However, the family man has been given suppression due to concerns he might self-harm.

Jarimar Schuster sent to prison for five years for Wellington sexual assault.

Donglan Wu is serving five years but has avoided deportation on humanitarian grounds.

'There are two kids lying in the middle of the road,' a witness told police.

Speeding driver Raymond Tairua-Gray drowned after his unsafe car crashed into a creek.

Defence lawyer says there are other ways the alleged killer's DNA could have got there.

Court hears from grief-stricken parents as school board are sentenced for student's death.

It was alleged the kids were slapped, spat at, hit with a pipe and one was run over.

Judge Bayley: 'No one is able to erase the ongoing harm you have caused your sons.'

The 32-year-old victim grasped at the mud with his hands as he was dragged on his back.

Victim's mum told judge who was sentencing Kurt Balemi that he was a 'danger to society'.

Police found $153,000 in cash in couple's wardrobe. Now they've lost two homes.

The driver was dismissed after failing to assist the injured man or report the incident.

But while their mother recalls son's aggression, she denies hearing an alleged confession.