Crime

Six teenagers are due to face trial, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020.

The scene at the Linwood Islamic Centre following the Christchurch terror attacks was unlike anything he had been confronted by before, a community doctor who rushed to help wounded worshippers says.

One of the cars was caught in police spikes but continued to be driven through the city and onto the Southern Motorway.

Cold case murders can be solved, and serial killers unmasked, many years after the original police investigations.

Justice Ann Hinton says Zhane Te Awhina Faiers' upbringing, age and circumstances have helped her avoid a mandatory life sentence as it would be 'manifestly unjust.'

It is difficult to imagine a level of sibling enmity greater than that which existed between John Allison and his sister Lynne Martin.

David Tamihere will finally have his chance to try and clear his name in relation to the 1989 murders of Swedish tourists Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen.

A South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger "out of curiosity".

A precious taonga stolen from a museum dedicated to the memory of the legendary 28th Māori Battalion has been recovered.

An Auckland holidaymaker is recovering from a serious assault after being mistaken for someone else at a Kaitāia supermarket.

A Hutt Valley scout master who sexually abused boys over a span of four decades can now be named, after suppression lapsed today.

A five-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s have been seriously injured and three other people hurt in a knife attack in Dublin city centre.

A doctor convicted of punching his teenage daughter in the face and forging documents to get a $25,000 loan in his wife's name has been barred from practising in New Zealand for one year.