Craig Kapitan

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A woman who dumped the corpse of her newborn baby in an Auckland park rubbish bin told police she was unsure she was pregnant until she gave birth while taking a bath in her hotel room.

A man charged last month with double murder and attempted murder of a third person on Auckland's North Shore can now be identified as Marc Anthony Govinden.

A man charged last month with double murder and attempted murder of a third person on Auckland’s North Shore can now be identified as Marc Anthony Govinden

A bulldog owner who admitted beating a chicken hoarder to death amid an ongoing feud over their animals has been found guilty of murder, despite his lawyer's insistence he never meant to kill her.

Two men from Asia who moved to New Zealand to traffic and manufacture commercial quantities of illegal drugs are awaiting sentencing for attempting to import methamphetamine disguised as lollies, among myriad other charges.

“You should feel shame.” Those were the parting words a High Court judge left with an unrepentant Auckland cult leader today as he was handed a lengthy prison sentence for the killing of an elderly follower.

On two occasions before her death, a well-regarded Starship hospital paediatric nurse had confided to friends that her partner Hao Feng had non-fatally strangled her during arguments.

Mark Purchase tried to whitewash his past. It caught up to him.

Kaixiao Liu and his wife, Lanyue Xiao, were both found guilty at trial in June of kidnapping, manslaughter, attempting to pervert the course of justice and

An Auckland man who held his neighbour captive – repeatedly stabbing him in the leg and knocking him unconscious during a torture session in front