When Freedom Walker visited her partner in jail, she took meth and cannabis with her.

The Crown said the offending had the hallmarks of pre-meditation.

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'I don’t know why the male attacked me. I was just trying to help him.'

The Crown said there were too many coincidences linking the man to the meth lab.

Serial burglar Logan Anaru had replaced his meds with meth, a judge was told.

Family and friends of murder victim Emma Field gathered outside a New Plymouth court to release balloons following the guilty verdict of her partner, Leigh Matthew Frederick Beer.

Crown prosecutor Jackson Webber said it was 'an appalling rape of a vulnerable girl'.

There was a baby inside the stolen vehicle who was then abandoned on a berm.

The man turned up carrying a large knife and “asking for a fight”.

The complainant told police she did not want to pursue a second trial.

The man said he needed the images to get her correct size in a sheer bra.

The man, whose name is suppressed, will be sentenced in October.

'You have no insight into the harm you could cause to others,' the judge said.

A woman says she and her partner had nothing to do with a meth lab.

The serial stabber also attacked a man at Auckland Hospital, resulting in kidney loss.

He was driving drunk in a vehicle without a court-imposed interlock device.

'Thank you judge - thank you for your understanding," the patched Comanchero said.

“I want the money. Give me the money or I’m going to stab him,' Ethan Simon told staff.

Crown says jail challenges for trans woman not "something she should get a discount for".

The victim was forced to dig what was supposedly her grave at a remote Far North property.

A judge said it was 'almost unbelievable' to see Matua Parkinson's fall from grace.

His 69-year-old victim says the attack's left him a 'shadow' of his former self.

The woman and the man were known to each other, police say.

Police allege the cans link the defendant to a clan lab in the lower Kaimai Ranges.

More than six weeks after he was last seen, police have issued a fresh appeal.

All three accused in $3.5m public sector corruption claims now deny charges.

Judge: 'If you went to prison, I don’t know you would come out a better person.'

The 'terraced' lab was covered in camouflage netting and dug into the side of steep bush.