The officer heading the investigation into the slaying of a Wellington man says his injuries were some of the most "vicious" he had seen in his 23 years on the force.

A jury in the Palmerston North High Court has today found a man not guilty of murdering a three-year-old girl but guilty of her manslaughter. Kash McKinnon died of head injuries in Palmerston North Hospital in August 2009.

Dev Sangha said he saw his "daughter's blood before his eyes" before he charged at her killer in the High Court at Rotorua today.

Police hunting the killer of a man who was the victim of a 'ferocious' stabbing attack at his Wellington home are appealing for new leads.

The man who admitted murdering a Tauranga mother and her daughter and stashing the 2-year-old girl's body in washing machine has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.

A man is being questioned over the stabbing of three people, including a 13-year-old boy, in Hamilton last night.

A teenager has undergone surgery after being shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting at Taupo.

One of two teenagers charged with attempted murder after a policeman was attacked with a machete at Taihape on December 11 last year has pleaded guilty.

A woman who paid an ex-gang member to beat up her daughter's partner and her brother who organised the assault were jailed today.

Police have named a woman killed in her east Auckland home on Sunday evening.

Busy radio traffic on a police network which stopped an officer calling for help for his badly wounded colleague was "the worst case scenario", says the police union.

Police have named a man found dead in his Johnsonville home with multiple wounds to his body on Tuesday evening.

A former beautician turned self-appointed border vigilante has been found guilty of murder.

A police officer shot by a man high on methamphetamine in south Auckland in December 2009 thought the shooter was going to "execute me and finish me off", the constable told a jury today.

The officer whose partner was shot during a routine patrol in South Auckland heard screams shortly after a volley of shots rang out.

Relatives in India are still be told of the brutal slaying of a woman in east Auckland last night.

A 47-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman was stabbed to death in east Auckland last night.

A violent sex offender spoke openly while behind bars of wanting to hurt women and "become famous", prison officers said.

Constable Jeremy Snow called out to a man hiding behind a tree in the dark. Minutes later he lay shot on the ground, bleeding profusely from a wound in his leg.

Constable Jeremy Snow called out to a man hiding behind a tree in the dark. Minutes later the officer lay shot on the ground, a court has been told.

Suppression orders have been lifted on Malcolm George Chaston's guilty plea to a charge of murdering Christchurch woman Vanessa Anne Pickering, whose body was found down a bank near Godley Head a year ago.