Bruce Emery will walk free next month after less than two years in jail for fatally stabbing a teen.

The man who admitted murdering Raymond Piper has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 14 years.

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

A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a Tauranga mother and her 2-year-old daughter in June this year.

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.