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Killer driver's jail sentence quashed due to injuries she suffered in crash she caused

She was driving drunk when she caused a crash that killed a young woman.

Day of violence: Gang members on trial for murder, assault, robbery

Mobsters accused of killing man who wouldn't give them drugs and attacking two others.

Christchurch man holds knife to elderly woman’s throat in her retirement village home

She was pinned against a wall while the stranger held a knife to her throat.

Beneficiary pretended to have $1000 a week job to secure car loan

The woman was at the bottom of the chain of an alleged scam network.

Teen in cell next to his father's 'stalled within the prison system'

He's been waiting more than a year for treatment. And he's not alone.

Buyer beware: Why an auction house selling fakes can’t be stopped

A customer didn't want to pay up after learning $6000 worth of coins were fake.

'I have a lot of hate towards them': A widow's life after murder

Jacob Ramsay was beaten, chained to a car and dragged to his death.

'It will be on fire': Fight between mother and son ended in family home burning down

Family lost nearly all of their belongings and didn't have contents insurance.

Woman unable to visit dying father overseas after passport taken in $100k burglary

The thief smoked cigarettes during the burglary - and put them out on the bedroom walls.

Bungled boundary: Court resolves bitter feud between neighbours

Neighbour will have to pay $5000 for 25 square metre piece of land.

'Not his duty': Father claims he's not liable for getting medical attention for badly burned pre-schooler

Crown alleges: “This was not a minor burn to this four-year-old’s body, it was severe."

'I only had one bottle of wine and one bottle of beer': Driver so drunk he thought the woman he hit had crashed into him

Instead of checking on the other driver he reversed, dumped his car and ran off on foot.

'Beaten up and strangled': Dad confronts man who attacked teen daughter in family home

The judge told Quinton Ohlson he was 'literally the thing that goes bump in the night'.

Teen drug dealer bashed would-be robber with baseball bat until he thought he was dead

Now a judge has dismissed an appeal against the teen's jail sentence.

‘Texts were designed to cause maximum trauma’: ‘Obsessive’ ex can’t accept relationship is over

Tyler Newall-Simon sent his former partner more than 60 unwanted messages in two months.

'I thought you were going to kill me': Man choked sex worker into unconsciousness

'I was banged up and bruised up, and I had these panic attacks for about six weeks after'.

High voltage: Man frustrated with stock trucks moved fence and network power wires outside house

The man would have been handling live wires if the power had been turned back on.

Man on family violence charges has a “defiant, hostile, victim-blaming” attitude

His name was suppressed, partly at the request of his victim who wants to move on.