Scott Guy's sister cannot get it out of her head that in two days it will be exactly three months since he was shot just metres from his house.

Police use of Taser electric shock guns is again under fire in Australia.

Peng Cheng Tian, 26, has been found guilty in the High Court in Auckland of stabbing a fellow student to death and putting her body in a suitcase.

Macsyna King showed strong emotion as she gave evidence at the Coroner's Inquiry into the deaths of Chris and Cru Kahui today at the District Court in Auckland.

A woman called police to say her husband attacked her and then minutes later killed him with a shotgun blast, a court heard yesterday.

A woman charged with murdering her husband in west Auckland said she feared for her own safety and she'd "had enough" after he allegedly tried to throttle her, a jury has been told.

The remains of Carmen Thomas have been removed from a crude grave in dense bush in the Waitakere Ranges.

More than three decades later, Stuttgart court hearing revisits one of Germany's most devastating political murders.

Murdered mother Carmen Thomas has been found in one of several concrete containers partially buried in the Waitakere Ranges.

The dismembered remains of murdered mother Carmen Thomas have been found buried in bush in the Waitakere Ranges.

Police searching for the body of murdered Auckland woman Carmen Thomas are making an announcement about the case this evening.

There was less crime and more of it was solved in the year ended June 30, police say.