The murder of taxi driver Hiren Mohini was brutal enough to shock criminals, the officer investigating the case has said.

The slaying of multi-millionaire Herman Rockefeller has been linked to Melbourne's underground swingers' network.

Police are seeking a young male seen running from the crash scene in the early hours of this morning.

Connection to Melbourne swingers' scene thought possible link to brutal killing of family man and former top NZ executive.

Neighbour tells of burning smell near house at the centre of murder inquiry.

A British mum will be questioned after police found the bodies of her two children in her car.

Police investigating the disappearance of millionaire businessman Herman Rockefeller said he "may have met with foul play".

'House of horrors' killer Jason Somerville will spend at least 23 years in prison for crimes described as 'absolutely incomprehensible.'

A man will appear in court after stealing a car at knifepoint.

A former Australian soldier has been sentence to death in Afghanistan for murdering an Afghan security guard and then accusing the Taliban for the crime.

One of the men accused of Dean Browne's murder had a "loose connection" to the woman who lived at the address where his body was found.

Relatives of a 22-month-old girl shaken and dropped when she would not stop crying are upset at her attacker's sentence.

Both are loving mothers, who after years of devoted care to their disabled children felt they had no choice but to take the law into their own hands but while one was allowed to walk free from court yesterday the other will go to jail.

When Dean Browne's former girlfriend heard he had been murdered and dumped in a New Plymouth garage, she knew his lifestyle had finally caught up with him.

A man who tore the head off a kitten in front of his family has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison.