Eighteen months after stopping a gunman from finishing off two wounded policemen, reluctant hero Len Holmwood has had enough. He wants a job.

A woman described having a 'feeling in my guts' on the morning she found her sister brutally murdered.

There was nothing about twins Kristin or Candice Hermeler that alerted anyone to the bizarre plan they had hatched.

"I just wanted her to shut up," said Gordon Hieatt of the events that led to his prostitute girlfriend's murder.

The man charged with murdering his girlfriend and living with her corpse for more than three weeks has been found guilty.

The mother of murder victim Yi Ren cried so much after her daughter's death she deprived her brain of oxygen and was paralysed.

Friends and family wept and held up photos of a murdered Christchurch woman as her killer pleaded guilty today.