Kurt Bayer

Nikki Roper has been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend Alexsis Tovizi in a jealous, revenge-driven rage.

Child, Youth and Family have admitted failing a 12-year-old girl who took her own life while in foster care after she claimed to have been sexually abused by a caregiver.

Nikki Roper bumped into an old prison pal just days after he allegedly murdered his ex-girlfriend, Alexsis Tovizi, and told him he had killed the girl tattooed on his cheek because she was cheating on him, a court has heard.

Nikki Roper strangled his ex-girlfriend Alexsis Tovizi to death with a sleeper hold just days after being released from prison where he was serving a sentence for choking her, a court heard today.

A life ban for a lawyer accused of stealing $3 million from clients was "the only appropriate penalty", the Law Society says.

A man has pleaded guilty to a rare charge of letting his drunk mate drive his car before he crashed and was killed.

Convicted child killer Jeremy McLaughlin was deported to New Zealand after serving a manslaughter conviction in Australia - but was not subject to any release conditions, police confirmed today.

The mother of an Australian teenager killed by the man convicted of murdering Christchurch schoolgirl Jade Bayliss has described him as "evil".

The man convicted of murdering Christchurch schoolgirl Jade Bayliss had killed a child before.

The jury in the Jade Bayliss murder trial must shelve feelings of sympathy and prejudice in the "very sad" case, and use their common sense when coming to their verdict, a court heard today in closing submissions.