An ESR scientist has told the jury at the Blessie Gotingco murder trial that male DNA found at the scene showed it was 280 times more likely to have come from the defendant.

Two pawn shop workers were stabbed to death as they ate lunch in the back room of a Takanini shop, a High Court jury has heard.

Man accused of murdering two pawn shop staff will plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

Blood was traipsed throughout the apartment of the man accused of killing Blessie Gotingco, a scientist has told the court.

A 15-year-old girl has been arrested following an assault in Kaikohe that was filmed and posted online.

Two men have been sentenced for assaulting cricketer Jesse Ryder in a Christchurch bar.

The judge in the Blessie Gotingco murder trial will take the rare step of asking each jury member whether they can be impartial after they have heard all the evidence.

A police officer says he found a "heavily bloodstained" car part hidden in the garage of the man accused of killing Blessie Gotingco.

The story about the Blessie Gotingco case, which ran in an overseas publication, contained several comments that could result in the trial being aborted.

A police crash expert told a court he believed Blessie Gotingco was hit by a car while she was walking along a suburban pavement.

A group of men who saw a young woman being attacked say they were so angry they had no qualms about chasing the attacker.

Gable Tostee, is accused of murdering Warriena Wright, who fell to her death from his 14th storey balcony last year, has lost his bid for early release on driving charges.

Two more people accused of murdering Wellington man Matthew Stevens have pleaded not guilty today.

A blue tarpaulin covers the backyard of a South Auckland house where a woman was allegedly stabbed to death last night.

A Taranaki man has pleaded guilty to murdering his mother - despite claiming no recollection of the killing.

Police are investigating a homicide in Auckland tonight, where a woman has been found dead in a home.

An anti-violence group has called for the country to take a lasting stand against domestic abuse following the killing of a Taupo mother.

A Ngahere man who almost strangled his mother after earlier assaulting his wife was this week sentenced to 11 months in jail.

Two men chatted pleasantly with the two fishermen next to them on a wharf north of Auckland, unaware they were about to become their victims.

The man accused of killing an Upper Hutt mother and injuring three others in an axe attack late last year has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Susan Burdett's brother wants police to reopen the inquiry into her murder in 1992.

Justice France will be remembered at the trial as the most brilliant legal mind on display.

A priest has been slammed for telling primary school children that a woman who was raped and murdered would still be alive if she had been more “faith filled”.

The fate of two men accused of burning a 21-year-old supermarket worker to death for $30,000 will be in the hands of a jury this afternoon.

A young man’s “conscience kicked in” when he and his co-defendant went to a south Auckland road to burn a body, his lawyer said.

The lawyer of a man accused of burning his friend to death says his client thought the victim was dead when the fire was lit.

A man who was burnt alive may have been lying on his back unconscious, appearing to be dead when petrol was poured on him and he was set on fire.

Week six, and the end of the Mark Lundy murder trial is only sort of nigh.