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A toxicologist has told a court he cannot rule out the possibility that Sincere Standtrue may have been huffing paint and other chemical fumes before his death.

Anti-vaccine activist Liz Gunn has been found guilty of assault following an incident at Auckland Airport in 2023.

A 52-year-old woman, whose identity remains suppressed, faces one charge of murder and one count of obtaining thousands of dollars by deception.

Sincere Standtrue - who had worked in the community's paint shop since he was 15 - was found unresponsive and died in Christchurch Hospital in November 2018.

An apprentice diesel mechanic who got behind the wheel after drinking and crashed, killing a young man, had recently been convicted of drink driving in similar circumstances.

The judge discharged him without conviction, calling the situation "a tragedy".

Whitney Iraia-Burgess slashed Daniel Otess, 57, multiple times before fleeing with his $100.

The man who killed an Auckland student in a "vicious and frenzied" knife attack will be detained in a psychiatric facility.

A woman has appeared in court after being arrested in connection with a stolen vehicle that had a baby inside, who was then dumped on the side of the road.

Michael Topp will be sentenced for murder and serious assault in July.

The owner of a farm - parts of which a court has ruled can be acquired for the bypass - says he has no regrets about fighting the project.

McBride, who helped expose allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, has been sentenced to five years and eight months in jail.

A mortuary technician who helped conduct the autopsy on Lachlan Jones says there were no signs the Gore boy's body had been put in a freezer before it was found.

But a bill has been introduced to Parliament, meaning the Tribunal no longer has jurisdiction over the case.

Southland was not set up to autopsy children but trying to get a specialist may have meant it did not happen at all, the pathologist says.

Rau Tongia was killed on Percy Dyett Drive in the Wellington suburb in December 2020.

While the method wasn't watertight in court, Wellington's regional council says it still plans to use it to identify potential wetlands around the region.

An engineer who forged the signatures of higher qualified colleagues is to be sentenced in the Rotorua District Court.