Anneke Smith

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane bought cleaning products, hired a rental car and met a woman for a drink at a bar as the British backpacker lay dead in his apartment.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane told police he was at a bar getting black-out drunk at a time CCTV cameras showed him entering CityLife with the British backpacker.

A court has heard the man accused of murdering Grace Millane initially lied to the police about the last time he saw her.

A forensic pathologist has told the jury in the Grace Millane murder trial the British backpacker died of pressure to the neck.

A name suppression breach meant a key Crown witness in the Grace Millane trial knew the man accused was the subject of a murder inquiry before she spoke with police, a court has been told.

A woman who says she was suffocated by the man charged with murdering Grace Millane has been accused of lying.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane suffocated a woman he met on Tinder during sex, a court has heard.

There is "extremely strong scientific evidence" the DNA identified from blood flecks on a fridge belonged to Grace Millane, a court has been told.

A detective who investigated the death of British backpacker Grace Millane has described to the court the search history on the phone of the man accused of murdering her.

Grace Millane told a friend she "clicked" with the man accused of murdering her after a Tinder date, a court has heard.

A jury has watched a compilation of CCTV footage showing Grace Millane at various bars and eateries during a three-hour Tinder date with the man accused of murdering her.

The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering Grace Millane will today watch CCTV footage of the pair on a Tinder date.

The police officer who found Grace Millane's body in the Waitākere Ranges has described tracking cell phone data to a shallow grave.

The man accused of murdering Grace Millane went on a Tinder date with another woman while the backpacker's body was contorted in a suitcase in his apartment, court hears.

The jury of seven women and five men has been selected in the trial of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane.

The trial of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane begins today in the High Court at Auckland.

A businessman has been jailed for spending investors' money on funding an extravagant lifestyle.

The mother of a psychiatric patient who died in a Samoan prison is shocked the Auckland DHB hasn't adopted a coronial recommendation to improve its services.

A teenager who tried to stab his ex-girlfriend to death in Auckland's CBD has been jailed for six years.

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says he has sympathy for Hans Dalton's whānau but can't do anything for them.

A man accused of assaulting former New Zealander of the Year Dr Lance O'Sullivan will go to trial next year.

A man who acted as a lookout while a teenager tried to rob a dairy with a knife in Auckland has been jailed for 14 years. Warning: Graphic image.

The mother of a psychiatric patient who died in a Samoan prison is turning to the government for help one last time.

The widow of a young Auckland father hit and killed by an Uber driver has told the man responsible she doesn't hate him.