Stories by Edward Gay

It was a mistake to find former ACT MP John Banks' wife was not a credible witness in a case involving his electoral returns, the judge in question says.

A couple were paid over $1000 to care for three-year-old Moko Rangitoheriri and his sister, but instead their abuse of the boy eventually killed him. Video, Audio

The case of Yvonne Cash who preyed on small business owners, promising to invest in their companies, is a catalogue of broken promises.

It's outrageous for the country's top policeman to claim Malcolm Rewa is guilty of Susan Burdett's murder, Rewa's lawyer says.

A repeat sex offender who preyed on men with mental disabilities was able to offend again - despite being monitored by authorities.

Jiaxin Tu crept into the bedroom of the woman he was obsessed with and hammered her new boyfriend to death, in an act now ruled murder.

Sentencing a convicted murderer to life without parole would be unjust, the Court of Appeal has been told. Audio

When is it right to send a person to prison for the rest of their life? This is the question at the heart of a case at the Court of Appeal, writes Edward Gay.

A psychologist says a teenager had gaps in his memory of what happened inside a motel unit where he's accused of fatally bashing a man.

Two teenagers agreed to have consensual sex with a 54-year-old man before fatally bashing and robbing him, the Crown says.

The sister of a man fatally bashed in an Epsom motel has described her brother as a kind and gentle man.

Two teenagers accused of murder sent text messages to each other, planning to beat and rob their victim so badly he'd end up in hospital, the Crown says.

A woman accused of being at the centre of a multi-million dollar mortgage scam says she simply passed on documents and didn't check their veracity.

The final closing address for colourful defence lawyer Eb Leary, who died last Sunday aged 71, has been delivered in Auckland.

A 60-year-old businessman has admitted blackmail charges and threatening to contaminate infant milk.

A man who stabbed his estranged wife to death and attempted to murder two other people planned to escape to South Africa after the killing. Audio

Amandeep Kaur told her lover "we will go together" during a police interview with the pair on the day after they murdered her husband. Audio

The jury deciding the case of the Auckland woman and her lover accused of murdering her husband has retired to consider its verdict.

A woman accused of helping her lover kill her husband has confirmed she held her fatally stabbed husband for two minutes before making a phone call.

A man who targeted elderly women in a series of home invasions has received an unlimited jail sentence to protect the community.

The wife of Davender Singh couldn't explain to police how her finger got cut or where the abrasions on her neck came from, a court was told.

A man facing serious drugs charges escaped his jury trial because he was mistakenly deported by authorities.

The cousin of a boy killed in a Grey Lynn street fight has described the moment she saw him stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle.

The family of murdered Blessie Gotingco hope her killer will never walk the streets again. Audio

The man who raped and murdered Blessie Gotingco faces sentencing today, and the Crown is expected to ask for preventive detention.