The rifle used in the Bain family murders will be handed over to Joe Karam.

He has a fractured pelvis, broken knees and ankles and a dislocated hip, his brother says.

Hastings father pretended to kill his son with a hammer for running around in a mosque.

Man wants to appeal community work sentence for beating up stepdaughter's rapist.

Christie Marceau woke up to her mother screaming. Moments later, she was dead.

The person was stabbed in the forehead in an altercation in Thames.

A man in his 60s is fighting for his life and another male had a heart attack.

Footage shows four men leaving Tolley's house, one "visibly distressed".

A dairy assistant was threatened with a machete held against his throat.

A bride has revealed how her ex-husband attacked her subjecting her to routine rapes.

It took a murdered beauty queen for world to take notice of the 'femicide' in Honduras.

Mini mart robbed for cash and cigarettes by group of people armed with a bat.

Former top cop explains process is important.

'I'm not fighting you!' Jury awards $142,000 to family of girl in school bus assault.

Delia Williams' only son read out an emotional victim statement to the court.

Young woman reveals her drug battle in a quiet country town that nearly ended her life.

Numerous stories of feral children like the young girl exist.

A female Corrections officer has been hospitalised following a scuffle in court.

A US man has been charged with murdering his university student girlfriend and getting his friend to help dispose of her body.

Beaten boy a shadow of his former self, say worried parents.

Last week, a servo employee helped rescue a British backpacker allegedly held hostage for months. But there are other times strangers have saved lives.

On May 9, 2014, Kahu Vincent was continuously beaten and had his head stomped.

A German backpacker was hit with a hammer while her friend was sexually assaulted.

A US man scalped his girlfriend and ordered his pit bull to attack her.

Two teens are in custody for allegedly bashing an 85-year-old Papatoetoe man.

Stephen James Smith will be given third shot at freedom.

Police have praised a Papatoetoe woman who came to the rescue of her neighbour.

A brave Papatoetoe mother didn't hesitate to confront three weapon-wielding men who bashed and robbed her elderly neighbour.

Four Otago students were seriously assaulted by non-students.

Wanganui farmer Walter Bolton became the last man to be hanged in New Zealand when he was taken to the scaffold on this day 60 years ago.