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.

Police are calling for information on two aggravated robberies in and around Hamilton.

Actress Melissa George breaks her silence on the alleged violent assault that ended her relationship.

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.

Queensland police have laid more charges against the mother of fatally injured toddler Mason Jet Lee and her former partner.

Police renew focus on Pine Beach camp in hunt for evidence

Ex-wife of a former top sportsman speaks of her abusive marriage in a bid to highligh family violence can and does happen in all kinds of Kiwi homes.

A German cannibal killer stands in his sandals and socks in the basement where he murdered and chopped up a willing victim he had met online.

Lois Rita Tolley has been remembered as an "amazing human" after she was found dead in a house in Upper Hutt on Friday.

The details of the first conversation between the father of Olivia Hope and the man convicted of her murder are revealed in a magazine article today.

The family of a Kiwi woman battered to death by her partner in Scotland are outraged by his four-year prison sentence.

Police are hunting three men over a suspicious death in Upper Hutt, which has sparked a homicide investigation.

CCTV footage shows a man kicking a woman in the back, sending her flying eight steps down a flight of stairs.

Aspiring model tells sex trial of tears and confusion after acting coach allegedly performed oral sex on her in attempt to make her 'less inhibited'.

Source: SKY News Australia. Murder-accused Vinzent Tarantino led police to an area of dense bush in Bulli Tops near Wollongong yesterday, where the 12-year-old's body is believed to be buried.

A British woman who was arrested after she was allegedly gang-raped in Dubai last night said: 'The truth will out'.