British police are continuing an international hunt for a man with New Zealand connections, wanted in relation to the killing of his flatmate.

The man accused of murdering Turangi service station attendant Rodney Tahu has made a shock retraction of an earlier admission that he had killed the father of two.

A woman has described how her ex-husband showed her the revolver he allegedly used to gun down a service station worker, throwing it on her bed saying: "There it is."

Residents of the isolated Pureora Forest Park believe the person who killed Hamilton roadworker George Taiaroa may have camped out in the bush near their homes.

A pensioner facing trial over the murder of a service station worker 33 years ago told his former flatmate he had killed a man.

The ex-wife of a man accused of a 30-year-old murder told court he reached "flashpoint" when he was refused oil by the service station worker he allegedly gunned down.

People on Kerre McIvor's talkback show this week wanted to know why Jeremy McLaughlin's previous conviction for manslaughter was not able to be presented in court.

The detective who worked on Christie Marceau's death knew the teen before she was killed. Detective Sergeant James Watson has spoken for the first time in a new book about the infamous case.

Two of Hone Harawira's nephews will go to trial over an alleged assault on a 12-year-old boy.

A man who helped kidnap murdered woman Rae Portman last year was threatened with death if he did not assist, a court has heard.

Jurors hearing the trial against a pensioner accused of murdering a service station worker in 1979 have been dismissed until Monday.

In his final moments, Rodney Tahu shouted for help and ran across a darkened service station forecourt as a stranger took aim at him with a .22 revolver.

A man accused of killing a Turangi service station attendant more than 30 years ago has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder.

More than 30 years after Rodney Tahu was gunned down outside a Turangi service station, a man will today go on trial for his murder.

Police yesterday descended on a rural Rotorua property as part of the investigation into the murder of roadworker George Taiaroa a month ago today.

The last person sent to prison for the killing of pizza delivery man Michael Choy is about to be released - after breaking prison rules and becoming listed as a prison drug user.

Two brothers from the rock-reggae band Kora have been in trouble with police this week.

One of Auckland's top police officers is being investigated by fellow police.

Evidence of how teenager Hayden Miles was cut into 12 pieces before being dumped in two Christchurch graveyards proved too much for one juror yesterday in the murder trial of Gavin John Gosnell.

Stabbing her long-term lover seven times in the back with a peeling knife was an "utterly irrational response" to seeing him with his wife, a judge told Gloria Cherrington.

A Rotorua woman has been sentenced to four months' jail after her pitbull attacked a toddler - "degloving'' the child's forehead.

Those who think the University of Otago has gone too far in tackling problem drinking should study elsewhere, the chairwoman of a group tasked with improving the student drinking culture says.