Police have confirmed the identities of the three people whose bodies were found in a Feilding farm house on Monday morning.

Convicted double murderer John Barlow said 15 years in prison was "like going into retirement" and hasn't changed him a bit, as he walked free from Rimutaka Prison this morning.

Police have named the man who died in an Auckland pharmacy after a struggle early yesterday morning.

The Herald understands a pharmacist struggled with an intruder and was holding the man down before he went into cardiac arrest.

The three bodies found in a Feilding farmhouse were removed last night as detectives try to piece together how the apparent murder-suicide played out.

Days away from release, convicted double murderer John Barlow has spoken out of his fight to clear his name.

John Barlow was jailed in 1995 for the execution-style killings of Wellington father and son businessmen Eugene and Gene Thomas.

Calls to change procedures after a notorious killer was able to write a letter to a juror have been called into doubt by the Law Society.

Simon Power is considering whether jurors' addresses should ever be handed out, amid reports a convicted killer was able to contact a juror.

One of NZ's most notorious killers allegedly contacted a woman on the jury that found him guilty this month of kidnapping.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has supported the police investigation of the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.

The man accused of the stabbing death of NZ-born nurse Michelle Beets allegedly held a knife to his brother-in law's throat to practise the killing, a Sydney court was told today.

A caregiver who killed his tetraplegic friend was today jailed for at least 14 years.

Eight women who had their bid for compensation over police rape and misconduct rejected are vowing to continue their fight.

The family of Sophie Elliott have no end in sight as a planned appeal by her killer, Clayton Weatherston, is delayed.

Jeri Knight might be 80 years old but it didn't stop her beating the might of the Manukau City Council over a wrongly issued car warrant of fitness fine.