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.

A hunter who fatally shot school teacher Rosemary Ives has admitted her manslaughter.

A woman whose family was terrorised by two drunken sailors says she does not want to see the men thrown out of the New Zealand Navy.

Wayne Reid almost got away with murder when he crept into his elderly neighbour's unit and strangled her with a towel.

A Nelson woman whose family was terrorised by two drunken sailors wants to meet them face-to-face, and says they should not be thrown out of the Navy.

Wayne John Reid had been accused of killing Beryl Campbell in her west Auckland unit in 2008.

A manslaughter charge has been laid against the man who shot and killed 25-year-old schoolteacher Rosemary Ives last month.

One of NZ's most notorious killers was released from prison yesterday and was later enjoying freedom on the balcony of his new Auckland home.

A man accused of murdering his Thai sex worker girlfriend admitted the killing to another woman he had been seeing in Thailand, a jury heard today.