Emma Field was alive when the fire took hold.

'You have no insight into the harm you could cause to others,' the judge said.

A woman says she and her partner had nothing to do with a meth lab.

Paora Sweeney wanted a marae-based apology from the prison manager for 'injury' to mana.

He was driving drunk in a vehicle without a court-imposed interlock device.

Police say they have intercepted numerous Alfa Carbines cut down to hand guns.

The woman picked her victims carefully - they were either elderly or had health issues.

Kupa Koinaki didn't realise police had already taken the cocaine he was meant to collect.

'Thank you judge - thank you for your understanding," the patched Comanchero said.

The shed is on 'tainted' property and used at the Tribesmen's Christchurch headquarters.

A judge said it was 'almost unbelievable' to see Matua Parkinson's fall from grace.

Jason Lambert's lawyer argued: “It’s his right to be tried without undue delay.”

His 69-year-old victim says the attack's left him a 'shadow' of his former self.

It's the final day of the convicted double murderer's second appeal.

Police allege the cans link the defendant to a clan lab in the lower Kaimai Ranges.

Theodore Derrick-Hardie stabbed another teen to death for kissing his ex-girlfriend.

'I remember waking on the floor, yelling for help and being in real fear for my life.'

The 35-year-old was accused of assaulting the girl who turned up at school with injuries.

Two hairsfound on a blanket taken from Watson's boat were missed on the first search.

Kohl Gibbons was wearing a headlamp and holding a .22 sawn-off rifle.

The 14-year-old's boss says it was normal for him to call staff “baby” and “honey”.

Judge: 'If you went to prison, I don’t know you would come out a better person.'

Emma Field was alive but likely unconscious when the blaze took hold of her bedroom.

The 'terraced' lab was covered in camouflage netting and dug into the side of steep bush.

Gordon Hieatt strangled his girlfriend to death during a fight about rent.

Watson was convicted of double murder in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Indoor cannabis-growing operation described as a "very serious commercial enterprise".

Defence accused him of torching the place after breaking in and assaulting the woman.

Inmate Krome Wilson punched one of the guards from behind, sending him to the ground.

She responded by kicking and punching him before trying to bite the officer's arm.