Former cop to face trial on historic sex charges
Another former Rotorua police officer is to go on trial after being charged with sexual assault.
Another former Rotorua police officer is to go on trial after being charged with sexual assault.
Preventive detention will be retained as a sentencing option for judges under the Government's proposed "three strikes" legislation, Police Minister Judith Collins said today.
Offenders with a record will have "nothing to lose" and could be more likely to kill under the three-strikes law, a prisoners' advocate says.
National and Act have agreed to pass a three-strikes law under which some killers will be locked away in prison without any chance of release.
Double killer Rufus Junior Marsh, a career criminal who spent just 18 months out of jail since he was 14, has died in prison.
Fijian police say it is too early to say if former All Black Robin Brooke will be charged for allegedly sexually harassing a teenage girl.
Police in Fiji have confirmed Robin Brooke is the former All Black being investigated over a sexual harassment claim.
Convicted double rapist Maka Renata is in police custody after being found in Lower Hutt tonight.
Police in Fiji are investigating claims that a former All Black sexually harassed a 15-year-old Auckland girl while holidaying near Nadi.
A former national figure has appeared in court in Nelson accused of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
A man taught to rape at age 14, and described by some as a "timebomb", is on the run after breaching conditions of his release from prison.
A well-known entertainer facing a charge of sexually violating a young girl has reappeared in court.
A man whose Christmas Eve sex attack left a woman so deeply shocked she could not speak may be acting strangely, say police.