Stories by Edward Gay

The former head of the city's downtown promotion agency - jailed after stealing $2.5m from it - is being released more than three years early. Video

Colin Craig's former press secretary has given the High Court details of creepy poetry, the infamous photo in the grass and questions about the moon landing.

Former Conservative Party leader Colin Craig went toe-to-toe with blogger Cameron Slater in the High Court today.

A multi-million dollar finance company fraud trial - believed to be New Zealand's longest running criminal trial - was aborted this week.

A witness says he pleaded with a man not to use his car to transport a kidnapped woman. Video

Police Inspector Hurimoana Dennis and a colleague are to be tried later this year on charges of kidnapping.

Colin Craig wrote a personal letter to his press secretary, saying that he physically desired her but had resisted kissing her.

The former leader of the Conservative Party says he was subjected to a modern version of the medieval punishment known as the stocks.

Day-care supervisor and teacher Lynn Abraham, accused of assaulting children in her care, has been found guilty of 10 of 11 charges

A pre-school teacher who wasn't coping with the stress of her job at times used gratuitous violence by smacking children in her care, the Crown says.

A pre-school teacher charged with assaulting nine children in her care says she only "tapped" hands and doesn't recall smacking any of them.

A man hired a group of gang associates known as the Ghost Unit to carry out an Auckland kidnapping that turned fatal, the Crown says.

Two of the people involved in kidnapping a woman have been jailed for more than two years, while three others also found guilty of attempting to murder her have yet to be sentenced.

Notorious conman Loizos Michaels talked people into giving him more than $3 million, but he could not convince the Parole Board to let him out of jail.

A senior lawyer says there is credible evidence the New Zealand Defence Force covered up civilian deaths at the hands of the country's elite soldiers. Video, Audio

Ten months after a woman was found with severe head injuries near a rural road, her attackers have been found guilty of most of the charges they faced. Audio

A lawyer for one of the women charged with attempted murder in a kidnapping case says her client deliberately left a record of her involvement.

Two women took their bound and hooded victim to a remote road north of Auckland not for the view, but to see her draw her last breath, the Crown says.

A woman has admitted her part in the kidnapping of a woman who died after escaping bound and gagged from the boot of a moving car.

A child killer who wants to spend the rest of his life in prison has been told he doesn't have to keep hurting people to achieve his goal.

Name suppression for Shortland Street actor Rene Naufahu has lapsed today.

A man found guilty of murder after shooting two men in a Papakura street initially pointed his gun at the men because he thought they were his friends.

A young woman has described being hit in the back of the head with a hammer, blacking out and being left for dead before waking five days later in a hospital bed.

The High Court in Auckland has been told a woman was sexually violated, bashed on the head with a hammer and left for dead on a rural road.

Two men have told a court how they were confronted with an unknown gunman in the street, on the night their friend was shot dead.