Rob Kidd

A Dunedin man accused of attacking someone with a ratchet during a home invasion has walked away from a potential jail term of up to 14 years because of a police mistake.

Police are investigating allegations an experienced Otago police officer subjected a woman to a vicious attack while he was off-duty.

A man who hacked almost completely through his victim's arm with a machete lost two of his own fingers in an incident four years earlier.

The stalker who harassed a Dunedin businessman for two and a-half years can now be revealed as a police officer.

A man wielding a machete who nearly hacked off his victim’s hand has been jailed for six and a-half years.

A senior Dunedin police officer has been slammed by the court over his involvement in a case in which he had a conflict of interest.

A mother of five has been spared a jail term over a baseball bat attack because it would ruin the lives of her children, a court has heard.

An 18-year-old has been sentenced to home detention for knocking a man out cold on a petrol station forecourt and leaving him there.

A Dunedin drug dealer who continued selling even after her initial arrest has been jailed for nearly five years.

A Dunedin scaffolder allegedly smashed a 71-year-old man around the head with a piece of wood during an ``out-of-control'' Christmas party.

Since committing a "spectacular act of bravery" a Milton man had suffered an equally spectacular fall from grace, a court has heard.

A patched Black Power member has admitted couriering more than $100,000 of methamphetamine to Dunedin on a domestic flight.

A Dunedin family man was a living a double life, a court has revealed, importing and selling drugs because he could not resist the "easy money''.

The family of a woman killed more than a decade ago by a drunk driver have been flabbergasted to learn the man has offended again.