Stories by Edward Gay

Michael Waipouri told a court he saw a 10 dragon heads come out of the chest of a man he is accused of murdering.

The driver of a truck carrying a digger that crashed into an Auckland motorway overbridge says he had never driven on Auckland's motorway before and believed his load was under-size.

Four people involved in a central Auckland development have been charged with using forged documents to get a $40 million loan.

Convicted child sex offender and murderer Phillip John Smith has received an apology from Corrections after mistakes were made over his security classification.

An overstayer who gave birth to her children under assumed identities and later abandoned them has been jailed.

A woman says her partner was angry after his friend dropped a man at their property who had been hit in the head with a baseball bat.

The witness says he found a man, hogtied to a tree and fighting for his life, shortly after his friend had visited his remote property north of Auckland.

A friend of a man accused of murder says he was told the victim was a professional hitman, whose kills included the cold case of Jane Furlong.

A woman says the man accused of murdering her father on a remote hilltop phoned her days after he disappeared in an agitated state.

A 30-year friendship between two men ended with one kidnapping the other, before driving him to a remote hilltop and caving in his skull, the Crown says.

A doctor says an intellectually disabled man, who has already been detained for more than 10 years, has violent fixations and believes he is on a mission for James Bond.

The Crown will seek an indefinite sentence for the man who has admitted sexually violating a 69-year-old woman in her home before murdering her.

The Ministry of Justice paid $23,000 for a video featuring its staff lip-syncing and dancing to a Justin Timberlake song.

A District Court judge who was accused of striking a lawyer with a crutch at a charity event, and who has been on sick leave since, will return to work at the end of this month.

More than $76 million of taxpayer's money has been invested in foreign companies blacklisted by a pension fund known as the world's leader in sustainable and ethical investment practices.

Ngāpuhi kaumatua Kingi Taurua is apologising to Prime Minister Bill English and says he is welcome to speak at Te Tii Marae, even in English.

A creative writing programme inside an Auckland women's prison is uncovering hidden talents. Audio

Feroz Ali, the first person to be convicted of people trafficking in New Zealand, has been jailed for nine and a half years.

A woman accused of stabbing her sister and burning her body will face a High Court trial.

A woman accused of stabbing her sister and burning her body made admissions to two separate police officers, a court has heard.

The former mayor of the tiny Pacific island community of Pitcairn will take his fight against his conviction to the Privy Council in London.

Four police officers found not guilty of assaulting a man during an arrest in Napier last year will now face employment and IPCA investigations.

Four police officers accused of assault during an arrest deployed their weapons but failed to deploy time during the incident, a jury has been told.

A group of officers charged with assault should not have used tasers on a wanted man who refused to leave his car, an AOS senior manager says.

Officers made the wrong decision to let dogs loose in a man's car during an arrest, the chief assessor of police dog training has told a court.