A Mosgiel man who believed he was sexually grooming a 14-year-old girl online has been sentenced to five months’ home detention. The offending came just after he was acquitted of rape.
Two months after being released on parole, Shelley Lee Williams went on a drunken Dunedin crime spree that involved shoplifting, a racist rant, wild driving and squeezing a police officer's genitals.
A kindergarten teacher from Austria who admitted responsibility for a crash that killed a motorcyclist at Moeraki may apply to avoid conviction, a court has heard.