The woman was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing.

But two years later, the fraud was discovered and it all came crashing down.

The shed is on 'tainted' property and used at the Tribesmen's Christchurch headquarters.

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

Six inmates graduate from Sir Graham Lowe's prison programme.

The Herald looks at the infamous case and the aftermath that haunts a family today.

Principal says students involved had 'brought embarrassment to our school'.

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

Barber Brian James was shot to death during a tussle for a gun in a pitch-black bedroom.

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

Lower Hutt teen's killer appears before Parole Board again

The dramatic exchanged followed the accused man's first court appearance.

OPINION: Helen Leahy outlines why Section 7aa is so important.

First parole hearing for man who murdered, dismembered Auckland mum Carmen Thomas.

The man subjected the little girls to 'monstrous' sexual abuse after meeting their mum.

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

Emma Field was alive but likely unconscious when the blaze took hold of her bedroom.

He said he wanted to get his drunk partner home safely. Family said she screamed for help.

He woke her up at 3am before trying to kill her with a fish-filleting knife.

Gordon Hieatt strangled his girlfriend to death during a fight about rent.

Defence accused him of torching the place after breaking in and assaulting the woman.

She responded by kicking and punching him before trying to bite the officer's arm.

Tough economic times linked to increase in 'severe' family violence.