Stories by Anneke Smith

A man accused of being a lookout for a violent dairy robbery in Auckland last year has been found guilty.

A policeman accused of sexually assaulting a fellow officer has kept his identity secret - for now.

Further charges have been laid against a man accused of stabbing a woman and hitting two others with a car in Māngere last month.

A Comancheros gang member who murdered a young father and tried to murder the man's wife in Māngere last year has been jailed for life.

The judge has reserved his decision in the trial of a man accused of being a lookout in a violent dairy robbery in Auckland last year.

A man who targeted an Asian family in a road rampage near Auckland last year has been jailed for two years and six months.

A man accused of being a lookout in a violent dairy robbery in Auckland has insisted he never played a role in it.

A secret witness in the trial of a man accused of being a lookout in a violent dairy robbery has told a court he overheard the crime being planned.

A mother and son have described being attacked in a violent dairy robbery in central Auckland last year.

A man accused of being a lookout in a violent dairy robbery has gone on trial at the Auckland High Court.

An Auckland man who murdered his mother and set fire to her Mt Roskill home has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years.

An Ōtara man has been jailed for at least 17 years for murdering a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

One of the country's top lawyers wants the government to fully fund reports that help sentencing judges better understand an offender's background. Audio

A woman who jointly stole more than $368,000 from the Ports of Auckland with her lover has been jailed.

A teenager charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in central Auckland last year can now be named.

A drunk motorist who ran a red light, killing a taxi driver in Auckland's CBD, has been jailed for three years and eight months.

Two cousins on trial for the murder of a man in Māngere last year have been found guilty.

The jury has retired for deliberations in the trial of two cousins accused of murdering a young father and trying to murder his wife.

A top military attache has been sentenced to four and a half months of home detention after he tried to film his colleagues on the toilet in the NZ Embassy in Washington DC.

A man on trial for murdering a young father in Māngere last year has insisted he's not a liar.

An Auckland man who spiked McDonald's ice cream sundaes with sleeping pills has been sentenced to 12 months of intensive supervision.

One of the men accused of murdering Abraham Tu'uheava told police he overhead his cousin say he had the "green light" to kill him.

The Film and Literature Board has rejected claims the livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks is fake.

The man accused of the Christchurch terror attacks has pleaded not guilty to all the 92 charges laid against him and will face trial in May next year.

The man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks is now appearing in court.