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Police did not check a report from nurses that a mental health patient had attacked a woman with an axe because they say they were provided with "little other information".

Paula Brown is waiting for answers about what happened to her son at a respite facility before he died of cardiac arrest.

Two of the charges against a Christchurch soldier accused of taking sexual videos without consent have been dropped.

The man who died at a property in Newtown in Wellington on Saturday night was 40-year-old dubstep musician Oliver Hayes.

An elderly mental health patient who murdered a pensioner at her Christchurch home with an axe says he's "extremely sorry that I've done what I did" - but doesn't recall the event.