A woman says she and her partner had nothing to do with a meth lab.

Paora Sweeney wanted a marae-based apology from the prison manager for 'injury' to mana.

He was driving drunk in a vehicle without a court-imposed interlock device.

Police say they have intercepted numerous Alfa Carbines cut down to hand guns.

The woman picked her victims carefully - they were either elderly or had health issues.

Kupa Koinaki didn't realise police had already taken the cocaine he was meant to collect.

'Thank you judge - thank you for your understanding," the patched Comanchero said.

Crown says jail challenges for trans woman not "something she should get a discount for".

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

Jason Lambert's lawyer argued: “It’s his right to be tried without undue delay.”

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

It's the final day of the convicted double murderer's second appeal.

Police allege the cans link the defendant to a clan lab in the lower Kaimai Ranges.

Theodore Derrick-Hardie stabbed another teen to death for kissing his ex-girlfriend.

'I remember waking on the floor, yelling for help and being in real fear for my life.'

The 35-year-old was accused of assaulting the girl who turned up at school with injuries.

Watson's lawyer: Police concertedly and repeatedly used suggestive practices to secure ID.

She also reduced teachers to tears with the aggressive way she ran her school.

The 14-year-old's boss says it was normal for him to call staff “baby” and “honey”.

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.

The 'terraced' lab was covered in camouflage netting and dug into the side of steep bush.

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

Watson was convicted of double murder in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Indoor cannabis-growing operation described as a "very serious commercial enterprise".

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

Inmate Krome Wilson punched one of the guards from behind, sending him to the ground.

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

The post-menopausal woman had been bleeding on and off for five years.

Witnesses helped identify the man last seen with Ben Smart and Oliva Hope.