Police

A mystery woman who visited a suspect in the grisly murder of Wellington man Matthew Hall may hold the key to solving the crime, police say.

A woman stabbed yesterday during an attempted bag snatch near Hamilton Lake is to be interviewed by police today.

A woman was attacked in what police believe was a sexually motivated assault in Lower Hutt yesterday.

Children have been found at Opotiki tinnie houses during police drugs raids.

Raids over the past few days targeted people selling drugs from homes in the eastern Bay of Plenty.

Police say a "person of interest" in the brutal murder of a Wellington heavy metal band member died a few weeks after the killing.