Rob Kidd

A career burglar with nearly 100 convictions to his name has been jailed for 18 months for two pharmacy break-ins.

It started when he saw her photo online.

A Frenchman who was found in Queenstown with nearly $50,000 of cannabis and a haul of drug paraphernalia has dodged a prison term.

A man who committed a string of burglaries in some of Dunedin's most upmarket suburbs has been refused parole.

The family of a murdered Dunedin teen are "disgusted" her killer was able to wear earplugs through his sentencing, thanks to a Corrections bungle.

A sex offender who had a secret online conversation with a 15-year-old while banned from contacting children will be scrutinised for the next 18 months.

A violent rampage which ended in a stand-off with police as a Clutha man tried to set a car on fire has resulted in his being jailed for nearly two and a-half years.

A Dunedin chef who punched a man on an inter-city bus to Christchurch does not remember the blow he inflicted.

When Grant Ronald Price was confronted by police after four years of sexually abusing a young girl he said she should take some of the blame.

An Australian deportee punched his partner unconscious, cut up her clothes and spat in her face, a court has heard.

A Central Otago man who killed his best friend in a high-speed drunken smash has been released from prison, to the horror of the victim’s family.

A 15-time drink-driver from Milton had a novel excuse for his latest transgression.