The Parole Board has had to apologise to convicted paedophile Graham Capill and his victims after it botched up details in a written decision denying him parole.

The rapist of a 75-year-old woman has walked into a police station waving an axe and begging to be sent back to jail.

A man who is now a marriage guidance counsellor threw his wife into a door frame, splitting her head open, then dragged her down the hall.

The Parole Board believes former Christian Heritage Party Leader Graham Capill is still a risk to the community.

The Parole Board held 4546 hearings last year and declined to release offenders in 70.6 pc, the board says in its annual report, released today.

Victims of Saturday's earthquake share their stories of survival.

The savage bashing and stomping of a 16-yr-old in Christchurch was recorded on a mobile so the video could be put on the net, a court hears.

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.

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