Stories by Anneke Smith

A top military attache has been sentenced to four and a half months of home detention after he tried to film his colleagues on the toilet in the NZ Embassy in Washington DC.

A man on trial for murdering a young father in Māngere last year has insisted he's not a liar.

An Auckland man who spiked McDonald's ice cream sundaes with sleeping pills has been sentenced to 12 months of intensive supervision.

One of the men accused of murdering Abraham Tu'uheava told police he overhead his cousin say he had the "green light" to kill him.

The Film and Literature Board has rejected claims the livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks is fake.

The man accused of the Christchurch terror attacks has pleaded not guilty to all the 92 charges laid against him and will face trial in May next year.

The man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks is now appearing in court.

Police have described riding in an ambulance trying to get information from a woman who had been shot four times including in the head - and whose husband had been shot dead.

The Norwegian prison officials visited New Zealand to give advice for managing the man charged with murder over the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Ngatokoitu Tapora killed Jeremy Kaukasi and Taylor Charles King with a bus. The judge cried as the families read their victim impact statements and called their pain and loss "harrowing".

A 39-year-old man charged with attempted murder of a gang leader in East Auckland has pleaded not guilty.

Benny Haerewa was released from jail in 2010. Today he pleaded guilty to 11 violence and sexual violence charges committed between 2015 and 2017.

Police are yet to charge anyone with breaching name suppression of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane.

The Crown has opened its case against a man accused of stealing more than a million dollars from a Far North Māori Trust.

An Auckland man accused of killing a man over Easter has pleaded not guilty.

The trial of a prominent New Zealander accused of indecently assaulting two men will now be held in the High Court in Auckland.

Sweet shop chefs were so overworked they feared they would die, a court has heard.

A man who drunk drove and ran a red light, killing a taxi driver in central Auckland just days before Christmas in 2017, has pleaded guilty.

District and High Court judges have been ordering special reports on the backgrounds of mainly Māori and Pasifika offenders, apparently unaware the law did not allow them to.

An Ōtara man has admitted to murdering a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

A former high school teacher accused of doing indecent acts on boys has gone on trial in the High Court in Auckland.

Top military attache Alfred Keating has been found guilty of trying to film his colleagues on the toilet in New Zealand's US embassy.

A top military attache accused of planting a covert camera in a bathroom in New Zealand's US embassy is "absurdly unlucky" if innocent, the Crown says.

The trial of a top military attache has heard a covert camera - similar to the one later found in a bathroom - was purchased to catch a petty cash thief in the NZ embassy in Washington DC.

The jury has seen footage from a covert camera found in a toilet at the New Zealand Embassy in the US, in the trial of top military attache Alfred Harold Keating.