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Benbow is accused of killing childhood friend Michael McGrath in 2017.

Former prison guard David Benbow has no better idea of what happened to his childhood friend than anyone else, his defence says, accusing police of “tunnel

David Benbow has no better idea of what happened to his childhood friend than anyone else, his defence says, accusing police of “tunnel vision”,...

David Benbow was on a dating website one month after his long-time partner left him, and just weeks before he allegedly murdered her new man, a court heard

A prison officer murdered an old school friend just weeks after finding out he was seeing his ex-partner and telling a counsellor he wanted to “annihilate”

The 82-year-old told the Royal Commission when matters of abuse were raised, there was a policy to follow for the victim and offender.

A Mid-Canterbury man has been urged to get counselling to develop “a greater maturity” after admitting he indecently assaulted his former partner.

A Mid-Canterbury man has been sentenced to community detention and intensive supervision for indecent assaulting his former partner.

Poor visibility at a Canterbury intersection may have contributed to the death of a mother of seven and two of her children in a crash in 2019, a coroner's inquest has heard.

STUFF Chante Alissa Harmer and two of her young children were killed in a collision at an intersection near Ashburton in April 2019. A survivor of a harrowing crash that claimed the lives of a 30-year-old mum and two of her children said she could still remember the “horrific sound as the windows smashed and the airbags went off one by one”. The woman’s statement was one of several read at the Ashburton District Court on Thursday during a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of Chante Ali...