Police say that as a Chinese citizen, Zhen Xiao may stand trial in his home country rather than in New Zealand.

"Count yourself lucky," Justice Warwick Gendall told Joanne Jasmine Tahuri as he sentenced her for the manslaughter of her granddaughter.

Shayne Sime was issued a gun licence just two years before he turned his weapons on Christchurch police.

A man who stabbed his wife to death on the forecourt of a service station has been jailed for life, with a minimum non-parole period of 14-1/2 years.

Melbourne police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the killing of Indian student Nitin Garg.

Queensland's crime watchdog has slammed the way police handled the death in custody of Palm Island man Cameron Doomadgee.

Powerful evidence suggested Patricia Pickering killed the three-year-old boy in her care, a court heard today.

Education officials are working to clarify a "grey area" for school staff around their powers to search students suspected of carrying weapons and drugs.

Kiwi Blazej Kot has been sentenced to 25 yrs to life in prison for fatally slashing his wife's throat in the US.

Members of a UK 'Happy Slapping' gang have admitted killing a retired care worker in front of his young granddaughter.

The final time Dot McCormick spoke to her tetraplegic son, she says he was planning a special meal for his soon-to-be killer.

Police investigating the apparent killing of Raymond Piper say people have reported sightings of two cars linked to the case.

Jurors have found Eric Neil Smail guilty of murdering his tetraplegic friend, whom he cared for part-time.

Crown solicitor Simon Moore says murder suspect Zhen Xiao could face trial in China in the absence of an extradition agreement.

Three young men have been jailed for beating unconscious a 14-year-old boy in an inner-city alleyway.