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An absconding psychiatric patient who murdered a woman metres from her Christchurch home earlier this year had also kidnapped and stabbed a pie delivery dr

A mental health patient who today admitted murdering a Christchurch mother-of-four in a random knife attack was jailed a decade ago for a frenzied knife-wi

On the surface, Wayne Smith was a normal man, a nice man, a good father and friend, a successful businessman. 
But it was all a facade. 
Beneath the norma

A woman who stabbed her partner to death and dumped his body in a compost heap in his own backyard has been jailed for life.
Rena Joyce has been ordered to

Today Rena Joyce was jailed for life for the murder of her partner Martin Berry. 
In late December 2020 she attacked him with a kitchen knife – stabbing hi

In January last year a motorbike crash shattered – and almost ended – the lives of young couple Kendra Smith and Corey Thompson. Thompson lost a leg and Sm

The Christchurch woman who stabbed her partner to death and buried his body in his compost heap has taken the stand to defend herself today at her murder t

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING  He's by the birdbath. Please go get him.  This is what Rena Joyce, 56, told police moments after she confessed to killing her pa

Greg Meads faced a parole board with the power to recommend he be released from jail, having served his minimum term of 11 years for murder. What he told the board shocked them.

For 13 years horse breeder Greg Meads has denied murdering his wife Helen at their Matamata farm – days after she announced she was leaving him – saying sh