Belinda Feek

PHOTO The Waikato police officer who stole $68,000 from a pensioner he was meant to be helping has lost his hard-fought bid for permanent name suppression. NZME can now reveal the officer assigned to help the vulnerable pensioner was Haimona Keelim Tamati... See more

A woman who attacked a motorist, ripping out a clump of hair, and then racially abused her neighbour has pleaded for another chance to avoid prison. Anna Rikiau claimed her drug addiction got the better of her during a spree of offending between 2022 and ... See more

A recidivist shoplifter, who has been stealing for more than half his life, says he now wants to break his thieving habit. Cole Frederick Jenkins' most recent "indiscriminate" offending stretched from Auckland to Cambridge, and involved everything from po... See more

The man who shot Brownie the dog in the head in a supermarket car park is a convicted child rapist who later cut off his ankle bracelet, sparking a manhunt. Daniel Patrick Livingstone shot the dog after it barked at him and then twice shot its owner in th... See more

A man shot a dog in the head and its owner's partner in the arm with an air pistol, after taking exception to the canine barking at him in a Hamilton supermarket carpark. Despite Danny Patrick Livingstone firing his air pistol several times, Brownie and h... See more