Stories by Anneke Smith

The Crown has opened its case against a man accused of stealing more than a million dollars from a Far North Māori Trust.

An Auckland man accused of killing a man over Easter has pleaded not guilty.

The trial of a prominent New Zealander accused of indecently assaulting two men will now be held in the High Court in Auckland.

Sweet shop chefs were so overworked they feared they would die, a court has heard.

A man who drunk drove and ran a red light, killing a taxi driver in central Auckland just days before Christmas in 2017, has pleaded guilty.

District and High Court judges have been ordering special reports on the backgrounds of mainly Māori and Pasifika offenders, apparently unaware the law did not allow them to.

An Ōtara man has admitted to murdering a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

A former high school teacher accused of doing indecent acts on boys has gone on trial in the High Court in Auckland.

Top military attache Alfred Keating has been found guilty of trying to film his colleagues on the toilet in New Zealand's US embassy.

A top military attache accused of planting a covert camera in a bathroom in New Zealand's US embassy is "absurdly unlucky" if innocent, the Crown says.

The trial of a top military attache has heard a covert camera - similar to the one later found in a bathroom - was purchased to catch a petty cash thief in the NZ embassy in Washington DC.

The jury has seen footage from a covert camera found in a toilet at the New Zealand Embassy in the US, in the trial of top military attache Alfred Harold Keating.

A top air force official spotted a little black box in a New Zealand Embassy toilet months before a covert camera was discovered.

The jury in the trial of New Zealand's former top Defence Force Attache has heard compelling scientific evidence this afternoon.

A driver who discovered a secret camera at New Zealand's embassy in the United States gave evidence at the Auckland District Court this morning.

The man charged with the murder of 50 people in the Christchurch mosque attacks will have two mental health reports carried out to assess his fitness to plead.

A teenager charged with distributing objectionable material after the Christchurch mosque attacks has been denied bail.

The High Court has confirmed the accused Christchurch gunman will not appear in person at his next court appearance.

A man who lost his father in the Christchurch massacre will attend the accused gunman's first appearance in the High Court on Friday.

The man accused of murdering Auckland man Denver Chance has been named as Jay Christopher Lingman, and he has pleaded not guilty.

Questions remain unanswered over the handling of Teina Pora after Malcolm Rewa was today jailed for life for the historical murder of Susan Burdett, a private investigator says.

Serial rapist Malcolm Rewa has been jailed for life for murdering Papatoetoe woman Susan Burdett, 27 years ago.

Those who knew New Zealand woman Linda Armstrong say they take comfort in the fact she is now in heaven, where she belongs.

A Christchurch family who lost their grandfather in the mosque massacre say New Zealand has been and always will be their home.

A court has heard a prominent New Zealander was found wearing only a pair of blue underwear in the room of his alleged sexual assault victim.