Police Minister Judith Collins has told the Police Association she supports the idea of lock boxes for pistols in all police vehicles, after the July shooting of two officers in Christchurch.

A jury has retired for the night in the case of a woman accused of murdering her husband when she shot him dead only minutes after calling police to her house.

Chris Kahui denied hurting his three-month-old twins but wanted to hand himself into police after their deaths, an inquest hears.

Murder accused Brad Callaghan appeared in Auckland District Court this morning.

The man who allegedly attacked "shock jock" Iain Stables at Auckland Airport is facing assault charges.

Accused killer Walter Ciaran Marsh hated New Zealand-born nurse Michelle Beets, thought she was a bully and told his wife "one day she will be gone", a Sydney court was told today.

Chris Kahui had no answer when asked why he hadn't taken his sons to hospital when he noticed one struggling to breathe.

Chris Kahui has denied at an inquest that he hurt his sons to get Macsyna King to come home

Radio "shock jock" Iain Stables has been involved in a physical altercation at Auckland airport.

The father of Carmen Thomas-murder accused Brad Callaghan says he can't believe what has happened and still loves his son.

The father of slain twins Chris and Cru Kahui agreed he was trying to protect his sons from his own anger under cross-examination at an inquest into their deaths today.

The father of slain twins Chris and Cru Kahui agreed he was careless about signing his police statement before reading it properly.

A Nelson teenager has been arrested over a vicious attack in which a man was left for seven hours in a pool of his own blood.