Justice Minister Simon Power's speech announcing changes in Government support for the victims of serious crime.

Victims of serious crime will now get more financial support - including a payment for attending the court hearing of the accused.

Ronald Bruce Vautier has lost an appeal against his two-year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls.

Corrections has threatened that existing prisons will be fast-tracked into private management unless guards agree to prisoners 'double-bunking'.

A Bay of Plenty man turned himself into police for assaulting his wife and son after seeing an anti-domestic violence ad.