Still staunchly defiant, a 51-year-old man has been jailed for 18 years for the sexual abuse of five girls when they were aged between four and fourteen years.
Author: David Clarkson
When Peter Lindsay Armitage was sentenced for indecencies against a boy last year, the police appealed for any other victims to come forward – and now one of them has.
A man described as a “rough sleeper” when he assaulted a woman staff member at an inner city pharmacy in June has admitted 15 charges and is in custody pending sentencing.
A teenager charged with the murder of 41-year-old Cyrus Alexis Alupis will face trial in the High Court at Greymouth on September 2, 2019.
Two men have admitted poaching a wild stag and a goat from a Canterbury safari park.
A Turkish emigrant’s hopes of leaving a legacy for his children were dashed by Craig Murray Shaw’s rooftop raid on The Tannery.
Knifepoint Facebook trader Nicali Joseph Stepancic has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
After exchanging 1300 instant Facebook messages and 18,000 texts with a 13-year-old girl – including naked photos – a 35-year-old man has admitted meeting and sexually assaulting her.
A 24-year-old Hei Hei man has been charged with the murder of a King Cobras gang member in a shooting incident at Telegraph Road, Charing Cross, on Saturday.
Heavy security was in place in court for the appearance of a Selwyn man charged with firearms offences at Darfield on Saturday.