Stories by Edward Gay

No officers turned up when Tokoroa District Court staff called police about violence brewing at the court between rival gangs in May, papers have revealed.

A group of Fijian workers who came to New Zealand were exploited, a jury has been told, paying exorbitant fees to work here in return for visitor visas.

A controversial undercover police technique should be banned, or laws governing its use strengthened, an expert on false confessions says.

An academic with experience in investigating complaints from prisoners says the tying of a prisoner to his bed in 2016 was fundamentally wrong.

Corrections updates on a prisoner who was tied to his bed haven't been filed despite a promise to keep the Ombudsman's office informed.

The woman found guilty of letting her mother starve to death in her own waste showed little emotion as the foreman read the jury's verdict.

The judge is summing up in the case of a woman accused of letting her elderly mother starve to death in her own waste.

An Auckland woman accused of leaving her mother to starve to death in her bedroom is one of the worst examples of neglect, a Crown lawyer says.

A woman accused of letting her mother starve to death in her own waste left her for up to 10 days, the Crown says.

The woman whose elderly mother starved to death in her own waste has told the court she did the best job she could in caring for her.

The daughter of a woman found starved to death in her own bed says she was working long hours and did not notice her mother's condition deteriorating.

The daughter of a woman who was found starved to death in her own bed told police that she never wanted her mother to die like that.

There is no doubt about the credibility of mother-and-child killer Kamal Reddy's murder confession despite the type of undercover police operation used to bring him to justice, a crown lawyer says,

The flatmate of a woman found starved to death in her own bed told a police officer that the woman had an eating disorder, but the woman's former doctor has disagreed.

A woman and four young children rescued from Te Urewera bush country after two days might not have survived the night, a search and rescue expert says.

The broken bones of an elderly woman found starved to death in her bed could have been caused by a fall - or by someone hitting her, a court has been told.

Ena Dung was found dead in her bed with broken ribs, a broken breastbone, open sores and lying in her own waste. Audio

A teenager swung a broken beer bottle at a young rugby league player at least seven times, the Crown says. Audio

Former ACT Party leader John Banks, who was last year acquitted of filing a false election return, has had his legal costs application dismissed.

A key Crown witness has denied she was under pressure despite changing her evidence about seeing her cousin being fatally stabbed outside a Halloween party.

A key Crown witness who says she saw her cousin stabbed in the neck by a teenager armed with a broken bottle has changed her evidence.

The broken beer bottle used to kill Luke Tipene in 2014 has been shown to a jury who have to decide whether Vincent Skeen is guilty or not guilty of murder.

An Auckland teenager accused of murdering a promising young sportsman had no intention of killing anyone, his lawyer says.

The Auckland businessman who threatened to spike infant milk formula with 1080 poison has had 15 months added to his sentence after he was caught in a party pills sting with buckets of illegal drugs.