The man accused of sexually violating and killing a five-year-old Napier girl has been further remanded in custody.

Ghislaine Maxwell speaks to Jeremy Kyle from behind bars and claims that the convicted paedophile was murdered and she wished she never had met him. Video / Talk TV

A 24-year-old Christchurch fisherman broke into the home of a woman he met months earlier on an internet dating site and sexually assaulted her, a court was told today.

Julian Assange fears that he will be sent to Guantanamo Bay and ultimately executed if he is extradited to Sweden, his lawyers say.

Three years after a damning report, too many long-serving officers still believe the old ways don't need to change. The minister's message says they are wrong.

Police Minister Judith Collins has given a sharp warning to her senior officers to speed up the "culture change" required by the Bazley inquiry into police sexual misconduct three years ago.

'Calling me a 'socialite' is such a lazy way for journalists to undermine me,' says Jemima Khan.

A couple accused of torturing their nine-year-old daughter appeared briefly in court this morning.

New claims emerged last night that the nine-year-old girl allegedly tortured by her parents was also sexually abused while in Child Youth and Family care.

ALl the grisly details of Julian Assange's sexual misadventures in Sweden are coming out.

Police were this afternoon continuing inquiries into events leading to the deaths of a man and a woman overnight after a reported domestic incident.