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.

Brenda Floyd was turning out lights, getting her 94-year-old patient ready for bed, when she noticed the plate of food on the floor.

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.

Father Jason Headland charged with murdering his two children, aged 3 and 5, in their Perth home.

Source: YouTube: Daily News. Shocking CCTV footage of a one-punch assault at Perth's Amplifier Bar in January has been released by the Perth District Court. 22-year-old Brent Robert Johnston was sentenced to 12 months in jail for the unprovoked attack.

A mother who died at the hands of her son will be cremated alongside him and their ashes interred together.

Source: Nine News Australia

A man was stabbed to death overnight.

In tears and distress and clutching her son close to her body, this is the moment after Melissa George left the emergency ward of

A meeting between a father and the man who murdered his daughter is one step closer to happening.

A public tip-off to police days after the fatal shooting of George Taiaroa suggested a gang may have been involved in the stop-go operator's death.

A man had his jaw broken and was knocked unconscious in an alleged assault in Queenstown this morning.

The NZ judge heading the UK's historical child abuse inquiry has shocked barristers by admitting that she is confused by English law.