A woman who kidnapped a newborn baby from hospital to convince her partner she had given birth has been banned from having unsupervised access to babies.

Wayne Bracken was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Jack Davis in 2011. But co-accused Neville Dangen, 24 was found not guilty of the same charges.

A man accused of murdering an Auckland father was so forensically aware, he trimmed his nails and hair and burned bloody clothing, a court has been told.

The mother of a newborn baby kidnapped from her hospital crib has described her terror at thinking the child was gone forever.

Middlemore Hospital in Auckland has beefed up security after a woman entered the maternity ward and snatched a two-day-old baby in January.

Last year, 170 Kiwi children were abducted by one parent and moved inter-country.

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