Court

Convicted murderer and rapist Liam James Reid is to appeal his sentence.

Reid was jailed in December to preventive detention with a minimum non-parole term of 26 years.

A frightened farmer who shot dead a gang associate when threatened on a remote Eastern Bay of Plenty property was cleared of murder in the High Court at Hamilton late today.

A teenage boy-racer was told by a judge today the community was disgusted with "young men with too much money and not a single functioning brain cell among the lot of you".

A jury in the High Court at Hamilton has retired to deliberate on whether a farmer who shot dead a gang associate did so in self-defence.

A man's bid to prevent bailiffs seizing his cars to pay off outstanding fines has backfired on him.

A further two men are appear in court today charged in relation to an alleged hit and run incident in which 16-year-old Jordan Herewini was killed in the Bay of Plenty forestry town of Murupara.

Slain policeman Sergeant Derek Wootton was hit so hard by a stolen and speeding car his stab proof vest was stripped off him as he flew nearly 30m, the Porirua District Court was told last year in

A convicted killer showed no emotion in a High Court dock today as the sister of his young victim told him how much she hated him and how she would like to rip out his eyeballs.

A Nelson man was jailed for life today the murder of his neighbour in 2007.