George Gwaze will again stand trial for the murder of his 10 year-old niece after the Crown successfully won an appeal in the Supreme Court today.

Police say further charges are likely against the inmate accused of killing a prison officer on Saturday.

Two undercover police officers were shot at close range, one fatally, after they and a colleague was sprung trying to put a tracking device on a car, a jury has been told.

A prison inmate was awaiting transfer to a high security prison at the time of a fatal attack on prison guard Jason Palmer, the Department of Corrections says.

A prison guard who wanted to spend his entire working life with inmates has been killed on duty after only six months in the job.

A man's attack on his partner was described as domestic violence of the worst kind by the judge who jailed him.

Slain liquor store owner Navtej Singh waited for 37 minutes for medical treatment because the officer in charge of the scene was never directly told the robbers had fled, an IPCA inquiry finds.

The Deputy Police Commissioner has dismissed the idea that police had failed in their "duty of care" toward Navtej Singh.

A High Court jury has found Christopher Shadrock guilty of murder after he struck down Joanne Wang in a Manukau carpark.

Black Power members say they want to track down the attacker of a boy, 4, so they can deal to him before police.

It may be a race between police and Black Power gang members as to who catches a man who assaulted a four-year-old boy because he was wearing a red shirt.

A judge has ruled it would be unjust to sentence a man found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old boy to the usual statutory minimum jail term of 17 years.