Rob Kidd

A Central Otago man repeatedly tried to strangle his partner while their 2-year-old daughter begged him ''no, daddy, stop'', a court has heard.

More than 70 sex acts against a young girl, including two rapes, have landed a Dunedin man in prison for a decade.

A woman who blackmailed her lover for more than $180,000 has been released on parole, despite two incidents of misconduct behind bars in the last six months.

With two squirts of hand-sanitiser into a drink bottle, a salesman almost killed his Dunedin colleague in what he called a "prank" gone wrong.

A 20-year-old North Otago man has been granted name suppression after being charged with the armed robbery of the Kakanui Dairy.

As Garry William Bingle lay in his kitchen in a drug-induced stupor, his two toddlers played by the red-hot element he had used to spot cannabis.

A Dunedin man will spend at least seven years in a mental-health facility after stabbing a police officer in the face with scissors.

A man who killed his ex-partner's new lover, then was released and attacked his new girlfriend, has once again been granted parole.

A nine-time drink-driver, who drove while ``extraordinarily'' drunk, has been denied a second chance at rehabilitation.

A methamphetamine dealer who boasted by text message about his ability to ``slang heaps in dunnaz'' has been jailed, along with his partner in crime.

A drunken violence spree which ended with a Dunedin man licking a police officer's face has resulted in him being jailed for three and a-half years.

A former Otago prison guard has been compensated more than $50,000 after an attack by an inmate and subsequent failures by Corrections.

A Dunedin man who robbed a liquor store then stabbed a police officer with scissors is still considered a ''significant risk'' of violence.

A man who drank 12 RTDs on the drive from Dunedin to Oamaru told police, after a brief chase, he was simply driving some mates to Christchurch.

A Dunedin man who robbed a liquor store then stabbed a police officer with scissors is still considered a "significant risk" of violence.

A man has been convicted of harassing his partner after referencing the Invercargill case of a police officer who shot his estranged wife.

An Outram man who smashed a container of tomato sauce on his partner’s head told her she was lucky the condiment which covered her was not blood, a court has head.

A Central Otago woman who swindled more than $100,000 from her intellectually impaired sister had three years of lies laid bare in court.