More than 206,000 New Zealanders became a victim of crime in 2016. Here are 10 of the high-profile cases that shocked the nation.

Basketballer Corey Webster has had his bail conditions changed so he can have a beer with his family on Christmas Day.

COMMENT: Even if Gerald Hope thought Scott Watson was innocent, nothing would change for convicted murderer.

Ten days to pay or you're going to prison.

The auction by infamous Auckland Prison inmate Arthur Taylor of a shirt he has worn in court has been pulled by TradeMe as it was "a bridge too far".

The move has been welcomed by the Human Rights Commission, but greeted warily by the police union.

Mary Anne is an inspiration to the people around her as well as the community. She volunteers at a womens prison making quilts for the family's who need them, at Middlemore hospital.

Jamie Pink has pleaded not guilty to charges of possessing weapons.

A prisoner who a probation officer tried to warn was too dangerous to release will spend full sentence behind bars after bottling a man while on parole.

COMMENT: Vicki Letele is dying. She will not see her three young children grow up. That has to be a far worse punishment any court could give her.

A successful campaign for the release of terminally ill fraudster Vicki Letele illustrates one of society's most difficult decisions, writes David Fisher.

A Hepatitis C sufferer who deliberately flicked blood in a women's face has been charged in Christchurch District Court.

It took 20 minutes for orders to be taken. At this point you might wonder if this was the first occasion on which Harvey had been to a restaurant

The country's biggest volunteer fire brigade has taken out insurance after a court case involving a fire truck crashing on its way to an emergency callout.

New figures show that almost 250 offenders removed their electronically monitored trackers during the 2015/16 year.

Immigration New Zealand are set to remove a man convicted of beating his wife so severely - as she held their baby daughter - that he temporarily deafened her.

Dame Lowell Goddard has returned home to Wellington, two months after resigning from her role as head of a major inquiry into child abuse in Britain.

Rubbish truck runner Jane Devonshire, 19, was killed when the truck she was in crashed 40m down a hill at Birkenhead last year.

A severely autistic young man is being held in prison because disabilty service providers cannot find an alternative place for him to go.

The man charged after the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler was her father, it can be revealed.

Concerns about the leadership of the UKs inquiry into child sexual abuse were reported months before Dame Lowell Goddard resigned, Britain's MPs have been told.

British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has asked Dame Lowell Goddard to appear in front of a UK Select Committee.

Months before killing her only child, Evelyn Sen accused her father of sending her to NZ to be sacrificed because she was 'possessed by unclean spirits'.

Maggie meant the world to her mother Evelyn, but in August last year, the person who was meant to protect her would end the 4-year-old's life.

A man charged in relation to the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler has lost a bid for name suppression.

What does it mean when a person charged with murder is found not guilty by reason of insanity?

Napier man denies "sadistic" offending against teenage girlfriend.

The Judicature Modernisation Bill, a lengthy omnibus bill that aims to simplify and modernise the law around how courts operate, will pass its final hurdle tomorrow.

With gangs deeply ingrained in Hawke's Bay, a new government initiative to steer youth away from them could provide lasting benefit

Woman too scared to report attack had made complaints about three other Navy colleagues, court hears.