Jury in Blessie murder trial retires to consider its verdict after accused jumped up during the judge's summing up and barged his way back to the holding cells.

The son of a Kiwi businessman murdered in Bali snubbed his mother, who is accused of arranging his father's murder.

Yesterday, as the Senate began public hearings into conditions in the Australian-funded detention centre, those words seemed not too far from the truth.

The man accused of raping and murdering Blessie Gotingco has launched a barrage of expletives in court while under cross-examination.

The man accused of raping and murdering Blessie Gotingco will tell the jury he was desperately looking for methamphetamine at the time of the alleged killing.

Five men have now been charged with murder following the shooting of James Whatuira in Woodville in January.

A New Zealander with a child on the way has died after what his family say was an unprovoked attack outside a bar in a small Western Australian town.

The jury in the Blessie Gotingco murder trial has heard about another knife found buried in the defendant’s garden.

One of two men killed in a pawn shop called for help and may have hid from his attacker, a court has heard.

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 pathologist found that Blessie Gotingco was stabbed in the neck so violently, links of her necklace embedded in the depths of the wound, a court has heard.

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.

Mrs Ellis faced court on Wednesday charged with the premeditated killing of her husband of 20 years, and explained that he was now "in heaven".

A Hamilton man cried as he was sentenced to life in prison with a 15 year minimum non parole period for murdering his eight-month-old son.

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.